<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>To all substitute teachers,Please read the SB 1718 Bill,and follow your concious. <HR id=zwchr> TELL THESE SENATORS TO VOTE NO ON SB1718: THE “PARENT TRIGGER BILL” The Florida Senate is poised to vote on SB1718 – the so called Parent Empowerment bill. It is actually a “parent trigger” bill, similar to the controversial California legislation that has pitted parent groups and students against one another. This bill is seen by education experts as a devious and underhanded attack on your local public schools and hardworking teachers. Every credible parent group in Florida, including the PTA, is opposed to this bill because it will ultimately hurt students. In fact, this bill will only help private education companies and corporations who want to force taxpayers to pay them to run “for-profit” unaccountable charter schools. These schools are not held to the same standards as public schools. Even worse, the corporate lobbyists who are promoting this legislation were caught misleading the public and Legislators by saying parents support this bill. That is a lie. Again, every parent group in Florida opposes this “parent trigger” bill. Please call the Senators listed below. Tell them to protect our public schools, our students and our teachers. Tell the Senators that we don’t want corporate for-profit schools and their “parent trigger” scam. Don’t forget to tell them if you are a parent/grandparent of a child in Florida’s public education system. <A href="http://feaweb.org/parent-trigger_2" target=_blank>Get more background and key points on this bad bill.</A> Anitere Flores (850) 487-5130 Rene Garcia (850) 487 5106 Miguel Diaz de la Portilla (850) 487-5109 Lizbeth Benacquisto (850) 487-5356 Ellyn Setnor Bogdanoff (850) 487-5100 Thad Altman (850) 487-5053 David Simmons (850) 487-5050 Michael Bennett (850) 487-5078 Steve Oelrich (850) 487-5020 Greg Evers (850) 487-5000 Ronda Storms (850) 487-5072 Jim Norman (850) 487-5068 <HR> This message was sent to Marvin Goetz by Fight For Florida, Reject Floridaâ€™s privatization bills! Keep our communities safe and our people employed. Campaign from the SignOn.org system. MoveOn.org Civic Action sponsors SignOn.org, but does not endorse specific campaigns or the contents of this message. To unsubscribe or report this email as inappropriate, click here: <A href="http://www.signon.org/unsub.html?i=2491-2333949-Pdw4cu" target=_blank>http://www.signon.org/unsub.html?i=2491-2333949-Pdw4cu</A> <IMG src="http://www.signon.org/o?i=2491-2333949-Pdw4cu" width=1 height=1 dfsrc="http://www.signon.org/o?i=2491-2333949-Pdw4cu"> -- <DIV> </DIV></div></body></html>