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Governor DeSantis Announces Expansion of Success Academy Charter Schools to Florida

Published September 25, 2025 | Video Starts at 15:37

No, if you want to opt in, you have to write them a check. You can do. But what has that done? The number of people that have joined [teacher unions in Florida] has plummeted. Dade County, Broward, they don't even have enough to be certified anymore. And part of the reason we did that is because we're increasing their salaries at the state level. (15:37–15:40)

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“If [Florida's charter school population] were its own state, it would rank number one in fourth grade reading and fourth grade math in these…”
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“Florida's number one in public higher education 10 years in a row.”
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“71% of Florida schools earned an A or a B grade last year, up from 64% the year before.”
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“There is no urban school, urban community in America that has more school choice than Miami Dade County.”
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“Over 70% of students [in Miami Dade County] attend a school other than the neighborhood school where they would traditionally be zoned to go…”
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“Ken Griffin has put up $50 million to help with [Success Academy in Florida].”
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“In Florida, we have zero tolerance for attacks on law enforcement.”
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“We are the leading state for school choice in the entire United States of America.”
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“We have 1.4 million students that are utilizing some type of school choice option in order to realize their dreams.”
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“We have 500,000 students who are on our Facebook family empowerment scholarship and tax credit scholarship programs.”
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“We also have over 400,000 students in charter schools.”
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“Over 400,000 students [in Florida] attend charter schools.”
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“We have hundreds of thousands of families that are involved in homeschooling [in Florida].”
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“We have been ranked number one in overall education two of the last three years.”
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“Number one in education freedom, I think for pretty much every year since I've been governor.”
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“44% of schools earned an A.”
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“The number of schools receiving a D or F declined significantly year over year.”
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“We replaced that one end of year test with progress monitoring.”
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“We now have the most robust speech and debate initiative of all 50 states.”
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“New York City and New York State does not want charter schools, by and large, to be successful.”
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“Teachers unions [in New York] are the ones that really call a lot of the shots, unfortunately, in some of these states.”
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“One of the things we did in Florida was, say, no automatic deduction for teacher union dues.”
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“Dade County, Broward, they don't even have enough [union members] to be certified anymore.”
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“We've now done a teacher categorical pay increase.”
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“Florida Commissioner of Education Stassi Kamuzis is hard charging. He's done a phenomenal job.”
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“I can tell you parents in Florida, you got no better friend than Stasi making sure that your rights are protected.”
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“Since I've been governor, [we] pay teachers more.”
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“We created a categorical in the budget that... only can be spent on teacher studies.”
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“It's now $1.35 billion, 1.38.”
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“We include the charter schools in those public schools.”
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“You can anticipate us rolling out an even larger teacher categorical for next year.”
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“We're already number one for charter schools in those categories.”
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“One of the things that we have provided in the recent legislation is an ability for them to access empty space that we have in some of these…”
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“Poor performing schools get less enrollment.”
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“In the era of school choice, parents have the ability to go [to different schools].”
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“Miami Dade College, they're using it as a parking lot.”
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“You're going to have a presidential library in the state of Florida.”
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“We already have, under statute, mind you, permitless concealed carry, constitutional carry.”
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“We have the highest per pupil spending we've ever had in the state of Florida.”
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“We've increased funding for our school districts every year.”
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“We've done the teacher categorical, which started I think at what it started 500 million. Now it's almost 1.4 billion.”
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“We're gonna shoot for over 1.5 billion next year [for the teacher categorical].”
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“You have over 70% students not attending their local neighborhood school that they're zoned for [in Miami Dade].”
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“We would not have 1.4 million in choice programs if it wasn't for the competition.”
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“The choice programs within school districts, I don't think they would do that if there was no other option for choice.”
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