Public schools across Florida face a quiet but costly problem: empty classrooms. In many communities, schools built for 800 students now serve only a few hundred. Entire wings sit unused, yet taxpayers continue paying to heat, cool, secure and maintain them.

Meanwhile, families in these same neighborhoods are demanding better options: schools with strong academics, safe environments and the results that set students up for long-term success.

This contradiction is more than inefficient. It is unfair to Florida’s children and Florida’s taxpayers.

The reality is simple: we cannot keep wasting money on unused space while students remain trapped in underperforming schools. This is why Florida expanded the Schools of Hope initiative to provide additional options for persistently low-perfo

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