Governor Ron DeSantis’ efforts to allow parents greater choice in where their children go to school has led to the proliferation of independent private schools and homeschooling, leaving public schools without students to justify staying open. The DNC-MSM have been lamenting the results, but DeSantis had a different take.
He said, “Now, as to that statement about ‘…some of Florida’s largest school districts are facing staggering enrollment declines,’ I can only reply, ‘Yes, and?’ To those school districts, and to the public school absolutists who are clutching their pearls and complaining about the likely closures, I would say: If the public schools were doing a better job, parents wouldn’t be choosing to enroll their kids elsewhere… If they can’t compete, they should be closed, as their customers, namely, parents, seem to have lost faith in those schools.”
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Excerpt from redstate.com
Down in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis just keeps showing us how it’s done. In the latest, we see the success of Florida’s school choice programs, which represent a step towards a great goal — getting government, at all levels, out of education.
This is the Way.
Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans have spent years aggressively turning the state into a haven for school choice. They have been wildly successful, with tens of thousands more children enrolling in private or charter schools or homeschooling.
Now as those programs balloon, some of Florida’s largest school districts are facing staggering enrollment declines — and grappling with the possibility of campus closures — as dollars follow the increasing number of parents opting out of traditional public schools.
