Charter schools must share in referendum funding, court rules

Written by Abraham Galvan on March 22, 2022

Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeals ruled last week that Miami-Dade County charter schools are indeed eligible for funding approved through a 2018 voter-approved public school system referendum.

This ruling reverses a lower court decision, which sided with the Miami-Dade School Board’s position that charter schools are ineligible to receive the funding from a referendum that voters passed in November 2018 to levy an additional 0.75 mills of property taxes for four years to improve pay for educators and to bolster school safety.

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