{"id":1906007,"date":"2023-03-28T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-signs-universal-school-choice-for-florida-into-law\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:15:13","slug":"desantis-signs-universal-school-choice-for-florida-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-signs-universal-school-choice-for-florida-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Signs Universal School Choice for Florida Into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-signs-universal-school-choice-for-florida-into-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1906007&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\tGovernor Ron DeSantis of Florida (Republican) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a universal school choice program into law, allowing families to apply for state funds to enroll in their preferred schools. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Under Florida&#8217;s House Bill 1, an estimated $2.2 billion will be invested in school choice vouchers, which all students in grades K-12 in Florida are now eligible to receive, according to National Review. <\/p>\n<p>Governor DeSantis describes Florida as being &#8220;number one when it comes to education freedom and education choice.&#8221; He believes that the new bill signing represents \u201cthe largest expansion of education choice in the history of these United States,&#8221; as reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2023\/03\/27\/governor-ron-desantis-signs-historic-legislation-to-expand-school-choice-options-to-all-florida-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2023\/03\/27\/governor-ron-desantis-signs-historic-legislation-to-expand-school-choice-options-to-all-florida-students\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1680097135329000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0TWwiQV849LiVNft2xrYUq\">on his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 1 aims to make all students eligible for school choice and establish an online platform that provides parents with information about school options. Low-income students and students with disabilities will be given priority under the new plan.<\/p>\n<p>Similar legislation is being passed by Republican governors in other states, promoting school choice for parents. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/how-sarah-sanders-put-arkansas-on-republicans-radar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/how-sarah-sanders-put-arkansas-on-republicans-radar\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1680097135329000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2fNsURVmWoB-OAMfU-SCI6\">overhauled<\/a> the education system in her state, creating a universal school choice program, raising learning standards, and increasing the base salary of educators. <\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act is being considered by the state House. The legislation aims to provide school choice vouchers to students in the state&#8217;s worst-performing public schools.<\/p>\n<p>However, Georgia Democratic State Representative Lydia Glaize faced criticism from school choice proponents after she said in a committee hearing that parents who did not complete high school are &#8220;not qualified to make those decisions&#8221; regarding school choice for their children.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/tik-tok-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbads&#038;utm_campaign=bantiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/tik-tok-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbads&#038;utm_campaign=bantiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>RealClear Opinion Research data shows that 71% of American voters support school choice, with 73% of Republicans and 69% of Democrats in favor.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R.) \/ Getty Images Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) on Monday signed into law a universal school choice program, allowing families to apply for state funding to enroll in their preferred school. Florida\u2019s House Bill 1 will invest an estimated $2.2 billion in school choice vouchers, for which all K-12 students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1708,"featured_media":1906008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3925,4980,5113,6547,3924,3785,8325],"class_list":["post-1906007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-choice","tag-desantis","tag-florida","tag-law","tag-school","tag-signs","tag-universal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}