There is a deep need for more teachers of color, as studies show that students learn better from people who look like them, and more programs to get veteran teachers helping new teachers are also important.
Although individual donations cannot compensate for the structural conditions of general underfunding and inequitable funding of public schools, a crowdfunded teacher's classroom may have better outcomes than one that is not.
Rodriguez Broadnax also allegedly did not have certification to serve as superintendent when he worked in other states, including Nevada and North Carolina.
"Good" news: Chronic absenteeism in the city's regular public schools is down from the staggering 40% reported in April. Bad news: It's still over 30%.
In 2021 DeSantis vowed to get his "political apparatus" involved in school board races, a promise which held this year. For 2024, he's calling his shots two years in advance.
In 2009, James Earl Dunn Jr. was sentenced to 33 months in prison for defrauding the Department of Education. He is now a registered provider for the Texas Education Agency, a government organization, in the area of school board training.
DeSantis' latest so-called "Freedom Blueprint" proposal appears similar to a measure the Florida legislature considered in 2021 and 2022 that the state's largest teachers' union, the Florida Education Association, called "anti-freedom" and "anti-educator."
