Posted on 09/22/2023 9:04:39 PM PDT by chickenlips
Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday directed the Florida Department of Education to suspend four schools from the state’s school-choice scholarship program because of their alleged “direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”
“Through a thorough investigation, FDOE has determined that Lower and Upper Sagemont Preparatory Schools in Weston, Parke House Academy in Winter Park, and Park Maitland School in Winter Park have direct ties to the CCP and their connections constitute an imminent threat to the health, safety, and welfare of these school’s students and the public,” the DeSantis administration said in a statement.
The Florida DOE is working with nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations to help affected students enroll in nearby schools that are accepted under the program. DeSantis’s order comes after he signed in May a bill that prohibited any school affiliated with a “foreign country of concern” from participating in Florida’s school-choice scholarship programs.
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“The Chinese Communist Party is not welcome in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said in a statement obtained by the Sentinel. “We will not put up with any attempt to influence students with a communist ideology or allow Floridians’ tax dollars to go to schools that are connected to our foreign adversaries.”
In May 2022, DeSantis signed legislation to create a “Victims of Communism Day” each year on November 7, at which time public-school teachers would be required to spend at least 45 minutes teaching students about communist leaders and how people have suffered under their regimes.
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It’d be good if he suspends his relationships with party RINOs over their CCP ties too.
Bookmark to see how the usuals spin this to be a bad thing
Well, that took all of 60 seconds
Will he keep accepting donations from his CEO friends that shut down American factories and moved jobs to China?
The same CEOs friends that donated to Trump in the past too?
This is great. He should have stayed governor. If he was governor of Tejas instead of that weak cripple, the border would have been locked down. I believe now that the bushites talked in his ear convincingly enough to get him to run to hurt his long term legacy. It kind of worked.
Waiting for the FL Demonrats to bitch and complain. They’re on the CCP payroll.
He hasn’t resigned. He’ll likely be in office until his present term ends in January 2027. He should focus on doing what he does best, being the best Governor in the nation, and abandon his floundering Presidential campaign. The latter is damaging, not enhancing, his reputation.
They should do this with american companies too.
To do something in china you need to sign a loyalty pledge.
In before Trump- that’s terrible. I would have proposed something we both agree on.
Desantis keeps up with consistent actions proving he is a conservative and not a Bush or deep-state or elite. Just in July he promised to revoke Chinas favored trading status if elected , something even stronger than any of Trumps actions I would think. He is smashing DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) in higher institutions all over the state and the left hates him for it.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/15/1176210007/florida-ron-desantis-dei-ban-diversity
With , as far as I can tell, absolutely no effect on the Desantis haters here.
Good. DeSantis has been great at rooting out CCP influence here. They were busy trying to buy up what seemed like half of FLorida.
The unions are doing a good job of that themselves.
That weak cripple is constrained by the laws in Texas and lower house where demonrats have too much power.
Greg Abbott has done all he can do within the law.
He’s a good Governor, don’t get confused...he will never be President unless President Trump wins in 2024...that’s DeSantis’ only real hope.
Yeah, Ron DeSantis is my second choice..
DeSantis is either walking the walk or showing off. Either way it works for us.
Yeah, we do the same thing here. You raise your right hand, put your left on the Bible.. It doesn't work if you don't believe in God. Ask the lawyers of DC, they'll tell you... (spit)
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