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Posted on 05/09/2026 3:28:15 PM PDT by chickenlips
Four days ago, Ron DeSantis signed legislation that could decertify the Florida Education Association entirely.
Tuesday, the FEA filed a lawsuit to strip 1.4 million children of their opportunity scholarships.
You do the math.
What the FEA Actually Filed The Florida Education Association filed a 39-page lawsuit in Leon County targeting Florida's Family Empowerment Scholarship program.
The union wants a court to declare the entire school choice system unconstitutional.
The legal argument is that private and charter schools don't meet Florida's constitutional mandate for a "uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools."
FEA President Andrew Spar held a press conference in front of the Historic Capitol to announce the suit.
"This lawsuit is a last resort," Spar said.
His last resort is eliminating opportunity scholarships for 1.4 million Florida children.
In the 2024-25 fiscal year alone, Florida distributed $3.17 billion in Family Empowerment Scholarships and another $804.5 million through corporate tax credit programs – nearly $4 billion helping children escape schools that weren't working for them.
The FEA wants a judge to shut it all down.
Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas responded the same day on social media.
"We stand unapologetically convicted on the principle of always putting students first," Kamoutsas said.
The Real Reason for This Lawsuit The Florida teachers union isn't suing because children are being harmed.
They're suing because children are leaving – and DeSantis just came for the union itself.
Four days before this lawsuit was filed, DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1296 at Fort Myers High School.
The bill creates a process to decertify teacher unions that can't demonstrate genuine majority support from their own members.
"We should not have these entities operating if they do not have support from the people they purport to represent," DeSantis said.
(Excerpt) Read more at desantisdaily.com ...
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When the FEA loses this suit again there will be even more good news for Florida students.
DeSantis needs to declare Florida as a sanctuary for school kids and throw the “teacher” union thugs out on their asses.
Bless their little hearts at the FEA. If only Marjorie Stuntman Douglas HS had met their mandates, too.
“We stand unapologetically convicted on the principle of always shooting students first,” Kamoutsas said.
“Er, I mean putting - putting - student first.”
Does this stop the porn in schools?
NEVER TRUST A UNION TEACHER....NEVER.
Since when has the public system abided by that mandate?
Government and the leftist commie socialist types that want them running everything, hate competition.
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They don't care about the kids. They care about their own pockets and the monopoly they have on that gravy train.
It's all about power and money.
And access to your kids.
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