Connect Kids with their Environment to Address Climate Change

Earth Day Resources for Teachers, Students, and Parents

• Free Activities for Earth Day and Learning About the Environment
• Climate Change Resources for Students and Teachers
• Ecology and Environmental Science Tools
• Civil Rights and Social Justice Tools
• Movies That Teach Kids About Climate Change
• Environmental Books for Kids



Source: Common Sense Education

Education

Interested in Public Education? Join the Education Committee! Here are some ways you can be involved in supporting our local and state league positions and action issues:

• Research and study the needs of Broward County Public Schools students
• Develop ways to support civics education that reinforce and enhance what is provided in textbooks
• Educate the public about education issues
• Coordinate guest speakers on education topics
• Attend BCPS School Board meetings as an observer

For more information, contact the team's chair, Margie Rohrbach.

To join the team forum click here Forum

What this team is working on

Current Projects:

• Create Civics Education resources for teachers, students, and parents.
• Develop actiivities for high school students to promote civic engagement and active voter participation.
• Advocate for legislation beneficial to Florida students

League of Women Voters of Florida: Spotlight on Education in Florida

• Issues for Action
• Latest on Education from the LWVFL
• Additional Resources on Education - LWV Education Blog
• Issue History and Study in Action
• How You Can Get Involved

LWV of Florida Legislative Priorities

• Promote adequate and equitable funding of public education and oppose use of public funding for the expansion of funding of private education, including through voucher program
• Support a curricular framework that has broad common standards developed by educational experts that serves as a guide to local districts, including the historic mandates to teach Holocaust, antisemitism and African American History, and associated messages of tolerance and understanding, and the new standard to teach civics.
• Support legislation that would require charter school contracts to stipulate how state and local capital outlay funding and the assets they purchase will (and must) be recouped by the school district if the charter school should close or the building is sold.
• Support any legislation that promotes diversity and nondiscrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, nationality, and ability status in all publicly funded schools.
• Oppose any legislation that aims to give tax dollars to private schools that discriminate (in policy or in practice) based on those criteria.

Education Legislation

Legislative Update 2024:List of bills affecting public school funding

How to track bills in the Florida House or Senate

If you want to track specific bills in either the House or Senate, you can sign up for alerts.

 House: https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/; on the far right of the navigation bar is tab “Tracking”

 Senate: https://www.flsenate.gov/; on the far right of the navigation bar is tab “Tracker”

The Florida Channel Capitol Update - "Located in the state Capitol building, The FLORIDA Channel is a public affairs programming service funded by The Florida Legislature and produced and operated by WFSU-TV. It features programming covering all three branches of state government, and is Florida’s primary source for live, unedited coverage of the Governor and Cabinet, the Legislature and the Supreme Court."

Blogs, Websites, News Articles, & Editorials:

• LWV Education Issues Blog by Dr. Sue Legg
• Floridians must reject bills on student employment, classroom recruitment
• WLRN Education News - Discover the Latest!
• Watch/Listen to BCPS School Board Meetings and Workshops
• Archived Education Articles from 2020