Hi JOHN,

What’s happening in Sarasota should sound the alarm for every community in America that believes in public education.

A Miami-based charter school corporation just filed to take over three Sarasota public schools — including a K–12 school for students with disabilities — under Florida’s new “Schools of Hope” law.

This expanded law, pushed by Ron DeSantis and his extremist allies, gives private charter operators the power to seize “underutilized” public school buildings without paying rent or contributing a single cent toward maintenance or repairs. They’ll use taxpayer-funded facilities for free, while draining resources from the very schools our communities built.

This opens the floodgates for privatizing our public schools as corporate-backed charter operators gain free access to taxpayer-funded buildings while our public classrooms struggle for resources.

At Educated We Stand, we’re building a grassroots movement to stop these attacks by electing pro-public education school board members in every corner of the country and standing up to extremist privatization schemes.

But we need your help. Sarasota won’t be the last community targeted.

Can you chip in $10, $25, or whatever you can today to help us protect our public schools from corporate takeover?

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When we defend our public schools, we defend our democracy.

In solidarity,
Educated We Stand

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