Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 20, 2020
5min333
Right now, funds can only be used to train school staff to carry guns on campus.
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Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 20, 2020
Sarah MuellerJanuary 19, 2020
4min594
The proposal includes some controversial provisions.
Staff ReportsJune 1, 2019
39min369
Another June, a new hurricane season — with Hurricane Michael looming in the background.
Janelle Irwin TaylorFebruary 25, 2019
5min893
Right now Hillsborough can't request funds under the school safety program.
Danny McAuliffeSeptember 17, 2018
4min380
Correction: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the intention of the Florida Association of District School Superintendents. The group is wholly supportive of eventually transferring unused school security funding. School superintendents backing the transfer of unused security money concurred with legislative leaders this week that numbers should be finalized before the Legislature amends any funding set […]
Lloyd DunkelbergerSeptember 15, 2018
6min252
The Florida Board of Education on Friday advanced a $21.8 billion request for public school funding in the next budget year, including a $200 boost in per-student funds and increased funding for school safety initiatives. Highlights of the 2019-20 budget proposal include: — An overall $673 million, or 3.5 percent, increase, compared to the current […]
Danny McAuliffeApril 19, 2018
3min378
Gaming session or not, Florida teachers want legislators to reconvene to iron out school funding concerns. On Thursday the Florida Education Association renewed its push for the Legislature to reconsider funding stipulations in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which was rushed through the lawmaking process in the wake of the Parkland […]
Staff ReportsMarch 6, 2018
4min233
After an hours-long floor session, in which a series of Democratic attempts to change a controversial school safety bill failed, the Republican-controlled House on Tuesday readied the proposal for a final vote. Before that could happen, dozens of amendments sponsored by Democrats were killed. One by Rep. Jared Moskowitz would have removed a ‘guardian program’ […]
Jim RosicaMarch 6, 2018
5min267
The House spent three hours just on questions on a contentious $400 million school safety proposal passed by the Senate on Monday. House members took up the bill (SB 7026) Tuesday, with Democrats peppering Speaker-designate José Oliva with questions, many of them duplicative. “Asked and answered,” Speaker pro tempore Jeanette Nuñez said several times. She was in […]