Education

Education

We support equal opportunity for high quality education for all students from early childhood through community college. We work actively to educate ourselves and the community about innovations in education as well as financing for education.

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Chair Yamamoto, Co-Chair McCann, members of the committee,

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Event Date: 
Mar 12 2024 07:00 pm
Event location: 

Oak Hammock

At this Oak Hammock Committee Meeting, Sue Legg, former LWVFL chair for education, will  discuss, "How Much Choice is Too Much?" Are we "first in education freedom" as Gov DeSantis claims? What does that mean? What's the cost?

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Action Alerts

Teachers who began service in Florida on or after July 2011 are not eligible for an annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) on their pensions. Those who retired before July 2011 are. Teacher salaries are low in Florida as are pensions. This year there are two bills in the Florida Legislature, HB 151 and SB 242, that will help fix this problem. Contact your Legislators to support these bills.

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Action Alerts

Alachua County Branch of the NAACP has issued a Call to Action to Save Our Schools. There is a mass meeting on February 12, 2024, at 6:30 PM at the Dayspring Missionary Baptist Church. NAACP President Foxx requests ALL members respond to this call to action to save our schools. Please share with your friends and family. This is a community concern and we need ALL HANDS ON DECK.

Oppose School Vouchers Idaho 2024

Action Alerts

Voucher Tax Credit Scheme – The House Revenue and Taxation Committee will give this a print hearing tomorrow, January 30, 2024 at 9 am.

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Event Date: 
Mar 13 2024 07:00 pm
Event location: 

Miles River Middle School

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Are we getting the most out of every education tax dollar?

Decreased government education funding, declining student populations, lagging achievement, growing expectations for academic offerings, costly accountability measures, and high property taxes compel us to question: Are we getting the most out of every education tax dollar?
 
Oppose School Vouchers Idaho 2024

Action Alerts

Voucher Tax Credit Scheme – This proposal will give Idaho taxpayer money to primarily urban, wealthy families to pay for their children to attend private, religious and for-profit schools. 

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This article was originally posted on the LWV Education website on December 26, 2023, by LWVAC Member, Sue Legg

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Strengthening Public Education in a post-COVID World       

Review by Libby Medley

The 8 November 2023 presentation by retired Hillsboro School District Superintendent Mike Scott was very informative, and you can see his recording on our Civics Education YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/44VKzFmR0N8. Mike compared the elementary and high school classroom situation in the 1990s to what it became from 2010 and after COVID to now.

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