FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 Florida’s largest teachers union will host a Fort Myers town hall Monday as part of a statewide tour focused on public education challenges. <\/p>\n
Florida Education Association (FEA) President Andrew Spar will participate in a town hall at the Fort Myers Quality Life Center on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The town hall is open to the public and will start at 6:30 p.m., according to a Facebook post from the center. <\/p>\n
The FEA is hosting the town hall with the Lee County NAACP, Teachers Association of Lee County, and the Support Professional Association of Lee County. <\/p>\n
The town hall will feature a “dialogue about the future of public education in Lee County,” according to the Facebook post. <\/p>\n
An FEA spokesperson said the event is part of a statewide tour highlighting challenges facing public education. The town hall comes weeks after a heated Lee County School Board meeting.<\/a><\/p>\n WATCH: Lee County board meeting covers free speech, new school, vaccines requirements<\/a><\/p>\n People spoke for hours about vaccination requirements, teachers social media posts regarding Charlie Kirk’s death, and the new high school planned for Alva.<\/p>\n An FEA spokesperson said the union’s president can speak to issues including voucher expansion, the “chronic underfunding of public schools,” and Florida’s push to end vaccination requirements. <\/p>\n The Florida Department of Education is struggling to keep up with rapid voucher expansion, the Florida Phoenix reports<\/a>, leading to a $47 million deficit in the 2024-25 school year. <\/p>\n