Florida Citizens Alliance
Legislative Agenda
Shape the future of Florida’s education
Shape the Future of Florida’s Education
Allied for Florida Kids Agenda 2025
TRANSFORMING FLORIDA’S K-12 EDUCATION BY UNITING AND EMPOWERING TEACHERS, STUDENTS, AND PARENTS THROUGH BOLD POLICY SOLUTIONS.
Empowering Teachers, Parents, and Students:
- Empower parents to monitor their child’s access to library materials.
- Increase transparency and empower parents by requiring parental opt-in to all
student surveys. - Expand the textbook adoption process by allowing Florida residents to review and
approve or object to teacher guides. - Increase family choice options by updating the Universal Choice Program (ESA)
by increasing the number of scholarship funding organizations (SFOs) and
allowing direct contributions by taxpayers. - Increase parent choices in the virtual school market.
- Remove all Common Core compliant tests from the state-approved testing list.
Protecting Kids and Promoting the 1st Amendment:
- Protect children’s mental health and promote the 1st amendment by limiting
minors’ access to obscene materials in schools. - Protect children by allowing Florida voters to recall school board members and
elected superintendents. - Respect the anonymity of Florida teachers by creating a “whistle-blower”
program that shields whistle-blowers from school district retribution. - Require public schools to display the 10 commandments in classrooms.
- Protect children’s mental health and promote the 1st amendment by limiting
2023 Legislative Agenda
1. Authorize Universal Education Savings Accounts for all Florida K-12 students and expand parental choice options and eligibility Family Empowerment and Hope Scholarships to home education.
2. A Harmful to Minors materials bill to strengthen Florida’s Obscenity chapter 847 for Minors; to prevent exposure to pornographic and sexually explicit material. These materials harm children and potentially groom them to be trafficked.
3. Expand 2022 HB 1557 to include pre-k, grades 4-8 and find a way to prohibit District Counselors and psychologists from circumventing HB 1557
4. A strong Opt-In bill putting parents in control of their child’s education. Among other things such a bill would allow parents to prevent their children from being exposed to sexually explicit materials being used in the classroom or recommended on any k-12 reading list.
5. Give voters in Florida School Districts the lawful ability to recall school board and elected Superintendents.
6. A state requirement that every school district must have a supplemental materials policy that requires any material used in the classroom to adhere to FS 1003.42, FS Chapter 847 and FS 1006.28, FS 1006.283, and all Florida Child Abuse Statutes (FS Chapter 827).
7. Expand technical education and apprentice opportunities for high school students.
8. Legislature to create a “whistle-blower” program to be administered by the Dept of Education Inspector General that protects the anonymity of district teachers and parents from district retribution.
9. Installing video cameras in public school classrooms, at sporting events and at school sponsored meetings on school property.