school boards

The “parental rights” group Moms for Liberty is looking to expand its efforts to elect school board candidates in 2024 and beyond, as well as get involved in other education races.

The proposal (HJR 31) will go on the 2024 ballot and, if approved by voters, would do away with a requirement that school-board candidates run without party labels

The 2023 Florida Legislative session continues to ramp up with the latest approval of four education bills in House, including those on partisan school board races and expanded sex ed ban

The state Constitution currently requires school-board races to be nonpartisan, but that could change under a proposed constitutional amendment.

More school board candidates are seeking office for political reasons than in decades past, and voters need to be savvy at the polls, says Florida Atlantic University associate professor Meredith Mountford.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is laying out more proposals to reshape education policy in Florida. At a press conference in Jacksonville, he voiced support for making school board elections partisan.

Of the 30 candidates endorsed by Gov. Ron DeSantis,19 won their races Aug. 23, and another six are headed to the general election in November.

Publix heiress Julie Jenkins Fancelli is helping fund some of Florida’s most competitive school board races.

School board campaigns officially are non-partisan races, but this year – more than ever – politics is front and center. What’s at stake for parents, teachers, students and voters when state politics comes to public school boards?

School board members in Florida are likely to keep their salaries, for now. The Florida Senate has dropped a plan that would have replaced salaries with stipends, and is now focused on the term limit issue. The proposal also includes language around how schools select classroom and library materials while giving parents more power to get rid of books they don’t like.

The decisions by the boards in Alachua, Miami-Dade and Broward counties mean that all eight school districts that faced state financial penalties because of mask mandates have reversed course.

Broward is the latest of the South Florida school districts to loosen their mask requirements just days after a judge on Friday ruled that Florida’s order banning mask mandates was permissible.