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Florida House Leaders Push for Expansion of School Voucher Program

🧵 The TL;DR

House leaders in Florida want to expand the state's school voucher program, but research reveals inadequate safety inspections, hiring practices, and teaching standards, as well as discrimination against LGBTQ students. It's also difficult to tell how these students are faring academically due to a lack of data.

    🔑 Key Points

  • Dozens of voucher schools have submitted falsified fire safety inspections, hired people with criminal records, and failed to pay workers.
  • Many schools don't require teachers to have degrees, and some use hand-me-down textbooks from before the Bill Clinton presidency.
  • 156 campuses have policies banning students if they identify as gay/transgender or their parents do.

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