Your Schools Belong to your Communities, not Tallahassee
In 2025, the Florida Board of Education gave corporations the power to take over our neighborhood public schools, while silencing the people who know our children best: parents and our locally elected school boards. The Florida legislative leaders snuck language into the budget package late in the 2025 legislative session, allowing this change.
When Our Kids Lose Space:
The Hidden Cost of Florida’s ’Schools of Hope’ Takeover
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Protect Your Public Schools
Florida’s public schools are under threat. State policies are allowing private charter operators to move into your public school buildings without community consent, without local control, and without accountability.
This is not a collaboration.
It is a hostile takeover of public resources.
Add Your Name Today
By signing this petition, you are standing with families, educators, students, and community leaders across Florida to demand an end to forced charter co-location and a full repeal of the Schools of Hope co-location authority.
Your signature tells lawmakers:
Public school buildings belong to the public
Local communities, not private operators, should decide how schools are used
Students deserve stable, fully resourced learning environments
Urgent Action Needed
After reviewing the proposed Schools of Hope rules, the conclusion is clear: this is a takeover, and the rules continue to expand it. Forced co-location, loss of local control, and zero meaningful protections for students or communities. No amount of rulemaking will fix a fundamentally flawed law. We need repeal.
Call the legislators below and ask them to support and place the repeal bills on their committee agenda.
Senate Education Pre-K–12 Committee
Bill: SB 424 (Sen. Darryl Rouson)
• Chair: Corey Simon
📞 850-487-5003
• Vice Chair: Alexis Calatayud
📞 850-487-5038
House Education Administration Subcommittee
Bill: HB 6023 (Reps. Ashley Gantt, Bartleman, Hunchofsky)
• Chair: Dana Trabulsy
📞 850-717-5084
• Vice Chair: Dean Black
📞 850-717-5015
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