Issues, Research & Policy Briefs
Support Our Schools Sarasota, Florida
She’s fighting for her life… and her 504.
Imagine your life being turned upside down by the illness of a child. Now imagine that the Florida officials you elected are doing everything in their power to stop the one thing your child still has a right to have… an education. Thousands of Florida children are at risk of losing their right to an education through Sec. 504 services..
ICE & Your Rights
Government officials have expressed the intent to send ICE into our schools to round up non-citizens. This has frightened vulnerable families and made our schools less safe.
We we need your help in urging the Sarasota County School District to provide detailed information in both printed form and published on their website explaining student rights and how they will apply if or when ICE agents ask to enter our schools and homes.
US Dept of Edu Closing?
There has been a lot of chatter in the news these days about President Trump’s plan to shut down the US Department of Education (DOE). Anti-public education ideologues have been calling for its abolishment since 1979, when President Carter established it, and they believe they have a real shot this year. Maybe they do.
Deny Charter Schools USA’s Classical Academy Application
On March 5 the Sarasota County School Board will vote to accept or deny the application for the Sarasota Classical Preparatory Academy. This Q&A aims to explain why this application should be denied.
Let’s tell DeSantis to remove Bridget Ziegler from our School Board.
Support Our Schools is leading a campaign to get thousands of emails, letters, and telephone calls to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to tell him to remove Bridget Ziegler from the Sarasota School Board.
The Hillsdale College “Grooming” of Jordan Adams
Who is Jordan Adams? As this timeline will show, this 31-year-old Hillsdale College graduate and civics teacher, was chosen by Hillsdale College president, Dr. Larry Arnn and his faculty buddies, while Adams was just a second-year undergrad, to be on the ground floor and a major player in Arnn’s drive to dismantle public education and replace it with privatized classical education.
We Embrace People of Faith and Support the Separation of Church and State
Support Our Schools Embraces People of Faith and Supports the Separation of Church and State…
Black History Month event at Sarasota School Board Meeting becomes the model for other districts
Through collaboration and communication, Sarasota was proud to light the way and demonstrate how a meeting filled with supporters of public education can be civil yet still get attention. We want to repeat this for Manatee County on Tuesday 2/8/2022.
Attacking teachers for teaching history, is the new “red scare” or modern day McCarthyism
High School history teacher, Brandt Robinson, struggled to keep history truthful last year, but after the Tampa Bay Times published an article chronicling his struggles, he came home to an email from Moms for Liberty DEMANDING he resign from his position.
How to keep your children healthy when your state prohibits universal masking rules in school.
With the Omicron variant in full swing, and mask/vaccine mandates far from reach for Floridians, here are some other options you can ask for from your school to protect your children.