1 agos 2016 anni - 2016: FL county schools taken over by private charter schools

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In the summer of 2016, the rural Jefferson County school district was in a dual state of academic and financial emergency.

That gave Republican-appointed state regulators at then-Gov. Rick Scott’s Department of Education enormous power over a school system enrolling only about 800 of the state’s nearly 3 million public school students.

The department engineered an unprecedented private takeover of the Panhandle county’s schools, which officials argued was necessary to ensure the children there finally had access to a quality education after more than a decade of public school failure. They describe themselves as advocates for the “voiceless.”

But the elected superintendent, school board members and others in the small community argue the will of the voters was tossed out to make way for Florida’s first all-charter school district.

“What's getting lost in all of this is: those folks weren't elected to run the school district,” said Marianne Arbulu, who won the superintendent’s seat in the fall of 2016, just in time to lose the chance to run the district’s schools.

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