•  "Parties engage in these races. There’s no such thing as a non-partisan race anymore. These races are partisan, and the only ones that aren’t informed are being tricked. And what happens is, there are games that are played all the time in these races. And what I’m trying to do is pull the bag off of the voters’ heads." - Joe Gruters, Florida State Senator 
  

• “I simply think as policymakers, we have an obligation to provide voters with as much information as possible about candidates to include party affiliation, and let the voters make their decisions based on that information. So I don't think you should ever be allowed to use the power of the law to hide your ideology or to hide your affiliations, whether it's with a political party or otherwise.” - Spencer Roach, Florida State Representative 
  

• “I thought it seemed like a really good idea for our voters to know exactly what they’re voting for in elections that are as important as our school board races have come to be. There will be less need for the candidates to spend time campaigning to explain their philosophy because the banner and brand that they wear already does a lot of that explaining for them, and that’s going to free candidates up to speak about the nuts-and-bolts issues that are affecting our schools. They can talk about whether they should build a new school, whether they need to close the school, whether they need to improve security, nuts and bolts, day-to-day, grassroots, issues that every parent will care about will be able to be talked about more in detail, more in-depth. It’ll make for better candidates, better elections, better-informed voters, and, ultimately, stronger school boards that better reflect the will of the parents.” - Dean Black, Florida State Representative 
  

• "I do not think there's any place for partisan politics in our public education system. We should be fully focused on what's best for students. I feel like public education is under attack, and part of the attack is sowing the seeds of division. I think this is part of the culture war strategy that is being perpetrated on classrooms, on educators and public school systems by our leadership." Carmen Ward, President, Alachua County Education Association

• "It's important to me that the race stays nonpartisan because everyone is impacted by school decisions. It doesn't matter what your political affiliation is, and I think everyone should get to vote and have a voice on a candidate, not just based on your political registration during the time of the election. We're seeing more politicization in education because of the governor of Florida’s actions. That is not rising up from local communities. It's coming down from Tallahassee, from the governor, down." - Tina Certain, Alachua County School Board Chair 

• “I’m just not in favor of even going down a road to start politicizing school board races. And if we’re all honest, we know what happens when we politicize things. We begin to make decisions based on party, instead of focusing on people.” - Rosalind Osgood, Florida State Senator and former Broward County School Board member 
  

PARTISAN SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS AMENDMENT (2024)

This question is on the ballot in Florida as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 5, 2024. As of September 06, 2024, no committee to support or oppose the amendment has been identified.  Thus, there is no record of funds raised to support either position.

PARTISAN SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS AMENDMENT (2024)

This question is on the ballot in Florida as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 5, 2024. As of September 06, 2024, no committee to support or oppose the amendment has been identified.  Thus, there is no record of funds raised to support either position.