{"id":144854,"date":"2026-02-05T16:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144854\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:08:09","slug":"public-school-advocates-call-on-fl-legislature-to-strengthen-education-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144854\/","title":{"rendered":"Public school advocates call on Fl Legislature to strengthen education funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNTOWN TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 The Florida Education Association and public school leaders from across the state will hold a press conference on Thursday to discuss the need for the Legislature to strengthen public schools. <\/p>\n<p>The event is scheduled for 11:00 a.m., at the Florida Education Association headquarters in Tallahassee, will address educator salaries, voucher and charter transparency, and other critical issues facing public education in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Public schools are your schools,&#8221; advocates emphasized in announcing the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The event comes as the Florida Legislature continues its session, with education funding and policy remaining key topics of debate among lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>WTXL is set to speak with the Leon Classroom Teachers Association regarding policies they are looking to see advance this session. <\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 The Florida Education Association and public school leaders from across the state will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,68412,15578,70142,16572,232,234,233,562],"class_list":{"0":"post-144854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-abc-27","9":"tag-downtown-tallahasse","10":"tag-florida-education-association","11":"tag-public-education","12":"tag-public-schools","13":"tag-tallahassee","14":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","15":"tag-tallahassee-news","16":"tag-wtxl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}