Florida Teacher Unions Risk Decertification Under New Law

Florida teacher unions with less than 50 percent of members paying dues face the threat of decertification under legislation Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed into law.

The governor signed H.B. 7055 on March 11, enacting 200 pages worth of education provisions involving charter schools, scholarships, and tax credits for donations to scholarship funds.

The state’s largest teachers union, the Florida Education Association, fought the bill on a variety of provisions that it saw as hurting public schools—not least of which was the provision targeting low-membership unions.

In announcing the bill signing, the governor praised provisions of the bill that he ...