Proposed School Voucher: “Family Empowerment Scholarship” (defunds public schools)
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    Lightbulb Proposed School Voucher: “Family Empowerment Scholarship” (defunds public schools)

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    A proposed school voucher called the “Family Empowerment Scholarship” is going to be voted on in the Florida Senate this spring. It would allow families to put their children in private schools, using tax dollars to pay for it.

    Sarasota School Board Chair Jane Goodwin is against it because the Sarasota School District has already seen a $30 million annual funding decrease for the past three years. Instead of taking away money from public schools, the government should focus on funding them.

    Goodwin explained that if taxpayer money is going to be spent on private schools, then private schools should be held to the same standards. "There's no oversight as to the staff's background. Whether they have a degree, whether they have a teaching degree. What they teach…"

    Goodwin said that “education is a complex business. We have made it so complex that people outside can’t understand it. And what’s happening now is that brand new legislatures that go to Tallahassee don’t understand it, so they vote for whatever somebody tells them to do. And then when I sit down and talk to them, they say [in genuine surprise], ‘Oh, does that really happen?'”
    Full story:
    http://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/03/20...ucher-program/
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    Thumbs up Real estate scam making big money off school vouchers

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    It’s complicated and it’s related to making money off school vouchers.

    Key GOP players have been doing backroom deals in preparation for voucher education revenues from the State. For example, big money is made by renting land, buildings or facilities for exorbitant prices to privatized educational corporations that get their State money from school vouchers. The bulk of those State vouchers end up paying for exorbitant rental prices (for the facilities). Conversely, the privatized school staff are grossly underpaid with little job security, when compared to public school teachers. A huge portion of the voucher money is used to rent educational facilities and lands for outrages fees. That’s where the key GOP players are making their money off the vouchers. It's a legal real estate scam, albeit it's an unethical way to scam taxpayer dollars.
    This is similar to insider trading via manipulating the Florida legislature to pass certain Bills to discretely make key GOP people rich.

    For example, this scheme was secretly devised in southwest Florida by Sheriff Tom Knight and Representative Joe Gruters and Mr. Eric Robinson (a partisan treasurer). They banked on the Florida Senate's passage of their proposed school voucher Bill, as the sole reason for overbuilding the SKY YMCA's school footprint way before the voucher-proposal was even introduced to the Tallahasee legislature. That's insider manipulation (similar to insider trading). This trio banked (correctly or incorrectly) on having enough legislators in their back pocket, to get enough votes to pass the Bill.

    The SKY YMCA school infrastructural build-out is now financially overextended because there is an over supply of school buildings, without enough paying students to fill them -- BUT the insider plan is for the proposed Bill to pass -- and if the Bill does not pass, then SKY YMCA will fold, due to gross financial mismanagement. It is either going to be a boom (if the Bill passes) or it will be a financial bust (if the Bill fails). Now you know why insiders have overextended SKY YMCA credit in their school building frenzy. Insider trading is risky when internal schemes are exposed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
    This is similar to insider trading via manipulating the Florida legislature to pass certain Bills to discretely make key GOP people rich.

    For example, this scheme was secretly devised in southwest Florida by Sheriff Tom Knight and Representative Joe Gruters and Mr. Eric Robinson (a partisan treasurer). They banked on the Florida Senate's passage of their proposed school voucher Bill, as the sole reason for overbuilding the SKY YMCA's school footprint way before the voucher-proposal was even introduced to the Tallahasee legislature. That's insider manipulation (similar to insider trading). This trio banked (correctly or incorrectly) on having enough legislators in their back pocket, to get enough votes to pass the Bill.

    The SKY YMCA school infrastructural build-out is now financially overextended because there is an over supply of school buildings, without enough paying students to fill them -- BUT the insider plan is for the proposed Bill to pass -- and if the Bill does not pass, then SKY YMCA will fold, due to gross financial mismanagement. It is either going to be a boom (if the Bill passes) or it will be a financial bust (if the Bill fails). Now you know why insiders have overextended SKY YMCA credit in their school building frenzy. Insider trading is risky when internal schemes are exposed.
    The proposed school voucher is craftily worded under Florida HB 7075. Here is the text:
    https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bil...Text/Filed/PDF

    And the proposed school voucher is partisan (so far), but that could change:
    https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bil...b=RelatedBills

    On the other hand, GOP Rep. Joe Gruters is proposing a new state law to protect LGBTQ rights in Florida:
    http://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/01/29...ity-workplace/

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