Tweet That: Bush’s Foundation Not Giving Up On Parent Trigger Bill
FOUNDATION FOR FLORIDA'S FUTURE
The Foundation for Florida's Future is out with a new video after the defeat of the parent trigger bill. A provision of the bill lives on after it was added to another piece of legislation.
The Foundation for Florida’s Future isn’t giving up on the parent trigger bill. They’re asking people to announce their support on Twitter and other social media with ready-made post to cut and paste.
The bill — officially titled Parent Empowerment in Education — would give parents more power in choosing how to change a chronically failing school.
But it died this week, just as it did last year, in a 20–20 tie vote in the Senate.
The foundation, an education policy organization founded by former Gov. Jeb Bush, sent an email today with the subject line: “We will not ignore parents.”
From the email:
20 Florida senators and 68 representatives trusted Florida parents and voted to include them in the decision-making process on how to improve failing schools. But