Overview: Florida Citizens Alliance (FLCA), a nonprofit, grassroots organization focused on advocating for school choice and parental involvement, engaging families, communities, and educators, and promoting quality educational alternatives to public schools in Florida seeks Ambassadors to promote its Faith, Family and Freedom initiative. FLCA’s Faith, Family and Freedom initiative’s goal is to inspire Christian churches and families throughout Florida to educate their children in a God-centered worldview and support the creation of public-school alternatives. Alternatives include K – 12 5 ..read more

Overview: Florida Citizens Alliance (FLCA), a nonprofit, grassroots organization focused on advocating for school choice and parental involvement, engaging families, communities, and educators, and promoting quality educational alternatives to public schools in Florida seeks a full-time program director to run its Faith, Family, and Freedom initiative. FLCA’s Faith, Family, and Freedom initiative’s goal is to inspire Christian churches and families throughout Florida to educate their children in a God-centered worldview and support the creation of public school alternatives. Alternatives in ..read more

On June 13, Collier County’s Superintendent Patton announced she will be retiring at the end of the 2022-23 school year. In the next few months (most likely August 23rd ) the voters of Collier County will be electing 3 Board members for the next 4 years. There is a distinct possibility that School Board incumbents in District 1, 3 and 5 will not be elected in either the August 23 Primary or the Nov. 8 General Election. In the August 23 Primary, any candidate in districts 1, 3, and 5 who receives 50% plus 1 vote majority in this county-wide race is elected. If no one receives a majority, the to ..read more

“On March 18, the Florida Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal filed by the Collier County School Board over a lower court ruling stating the school board violated the state’s Sunshine Laws during its textbook selection process”… Click here to read Patricia Tolson’s full article ..read more

Last week we published an Action Alert asking you to contact Florida Speaker Sprowls and Senate President Simpson regarding their failure to protect our public school children from pornography and age-inappropriate gender indoctrination. Despite upping the pressure via an open letter and listing more than 30 groups supporting us in this, no action has been taken by Sprowls or Simpson. Now, even the Epoch Times is chiming in with their article titled “Child Advocacy Group Pleads With Lawmakers to Protect Children From ‘Sexually Explicit Material’ and ‘Gender Indoctrination’”, subtitled “Why is ..read more

HB 1557 is headed to the floor of the Florida House next Tuesday Feb 22. This is a substantive bill that expands the Parents Rights bill signed into law last year by Governor DeSantis. Florida Citizens Alliance strongly supports this bill. The bill does the following: Reinforces the fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children. Prohibits a school district from adopting procedures or student support forms that prohibit school district personnel from notifying a parent about specified health related information or that encourage or have t ..read more

On Friday , Feb 11 Florida Citizens Alliance issued this Press Release with over thirty (30) supporting partners, calling on Florida Speaker Sprowls and Senate President Simpson to protect our children with this open letter to Florida residents. So far… “crickets”. So we are asking all of our Florida Citizens Alliance supporters and extended strategic partners and friends to help get their attention with this petition. We want them to act now during this Legislative cycle. Here is the open letter sent Friday, Feb 11 as a press release: Subject: Open Letter to Florida Speaker Sprowls and Senate ..read more

Bill HB 5 does the following: Establish the Fetal and Natal Infant Mortality Review Committee to review and analyze rates, trends, causes, and other data related to fetal and infant mortality and morbidity in its geographic area Develop findings and recommendations for interventions and policy changes to reduce fetal and infant mortality and morbidity rates. A physician may not perform a termination of pregnancy if the physician determines the gestational age of the fetus is more than 15 weeks Fetus at 15 weeks ACTION HB 5 has passed all of it House committees and will be voted on this week ..read more

State Senator Dennis Baxley has filed Senate SB 1834, an excellent bill (similar House bill HB 1557 is progressing in the House chamber) that puts several key elements of accountability and enforcement into the Parents Rights bill which was passed and signed into law by Governor DeSantis last year. Specifically, SB 1834: Prohibits a school district from adopting procedures or student support forms that require school district personnel to withhold from a parent specified information or that encourage or have the effect of encouraging a student to withhold from a parent such information. Prohi ..read more

Overview Senate Bill SB 1300 and House Bill HB 1467 are companion bills that deal with the subject of preventing harmful content (like porn) from finding its way into public school materials. There are some good aspects of the current versions of SB 1300 and HB 1467, and we (FLCA) could really get behind these two bills if not for a couple of critical proposed revisions in each. We need your voice to tell Sen. Gruters and Rep. Garrison to restore key language in each of these bills to help ensure that our children are not exposed to harmful materials. ACTION Use the petition below to contact S ..read more