Instead of their scheduled end-of-session tomorrow, Florida lawmakers have decided to go home. They’ll be off all of next week with no announcement of when they might return to Tallahassee to wrap up work on the state budge.
State law enforcement and ICE have arrested more than one-thousand immigrants in Florida over the past month. Tristan Wood reports ICE officials and Governor Ron DeSantis were touting the efforts at a news conference today (Thursday.)
Governor DeSantis has received a bill that bans any kind of commercial development in state parks, the prospect of which inflamed passions last year.
Florida lawmakers want to boost charter schools. Bills that would make it easier to convert public schools to charter schools have flown through the Republican-dominated Legislature this session. But Democrats worry that traditional public schools are losing funding as a result. Margie Menzel reports.