{"id":167451,"date":"2026-02-24T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167451\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:01:07","slug":"students-lawmakers-discuss-policies-during-childrens-week-at-the-florida-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167451\/","title":{"rendered":"Students, lawmakers discuss policies during Children\u2019s Week at the Florida Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; As part of Children\u2019s Week at the Capitol, Florida students spent Tuesday asking lawmakers about their policies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brownsville Preparatory Institute students led the conversations at the Florida Capitol, bridging the gap between lawmakers and the students who are impacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Madeleine Thakur, president and CEO of the Children\u2019s Movement of Florida, attributed the students\u2019 high literacy and eagerness to learn as her reason for selecting them for this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\">Florida Politics<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWorking together for communicating clearly, for collaborating. That\u2019s what\u2019s really important here,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat you think a five-year-old can do, they can do a whole lot more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flhouse.gov\/Sections\/Bills\/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=84181&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.flhouse.gov\/Sections\/Bills\/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=84181&amp;\">A senate bill<\/a> that will establish a statewide endowment for child care and learning services will be up for a vote soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; As part of Children\u2019s Week at the Capitol, Florida students spent Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[79554,79551,22406,79553,79547,79550,79555,79546,5623,79556,79548,63696,79552,79549,36647,232,234,233,13983],"class_list":{"0":"post-167451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-aptitude","9":"tag-brownsville-institute","10":"tag-child-care","11":"tag-childrens-movement-of-florida","12":"tag-childrens-week-at-the-capitol","13":"tag-elementary-schoolchildren","14":"tag-endowment","15":"tag-florida-kids","16":"tag-lawmakers","17":"tag-learning-services","18":"tag-legislative-members","19":"tag-literacy","20":"tag-madeleine-thakur","21":"tag-school-policy","22":"tag-senate-bill","23":"tag-tallahassee","24":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","25":"tag-tallahassee-news","26":"tag-vote"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167451","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=167451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}