Showing posts with label Erik Fresen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Erik Fresen. Show all posts

Friday, November 3, 2017

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Erik Fresen

Erik Fresen is finally going to jail. He shouldn’t have never been allowed anywhere near our tax dollars — especially ones for the state’s public schools. He was what you might call an interested party in the constant battle for public dollars that traditional public schools fight with privately run charter schools.
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Fresen was a lobbyist for Academica, a charter school management company that operates more than 100 schools, most of them in Florida. And he was also a $150,000-a-year land consultant for Civica, the architectural company that builds charter schools for Academica. Fresen’s brother-in-law is the founder of Academica.
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So it’s little wonder that in Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature, Fresen would take on a starring role as the architect of legislation that shifted tax dollars to privately run charters at the expense of public schools. here

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Erik Fresen Of Miami

Two former nursing students from 
Mattia College, the for-profit college
That abruptly closed its South Florida campuses earlier this year, arrived in Tallahassee to urge the Legislature to stop ignoring the plight of hundreds of students abandoned by failed colleges. Fresen, would not schedule a hearing on the bill. here

Friday, February 12, 2016

Florida GOP Erik Fresen Privatizing Florida Schools

Florida GOP Rep. Erik Fresen's pledge to "address the overspending of school districts on school facilities" takes a step forward Tuesday, when the House Appropriations Committee takes up a sweeping measure that would force districts into construction spending limits while also sharing local capital projects tax revenue with charter schools.

HB 873, would give charter schools  a percentage of the local property tax that currently goes to districts only.

Monday, March 30, 2015

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Erik Fresen

Without a word of debate Friday, the Florida House approved a controversial proposal that could require school districts to share tens of millions of dollars in construction funds with rival charter schools.

Erik Fresen sponsored the amendment,his architectural firm has helped build several charter schools, and his brother-in-law runs Academica, the state’s largest charter school management company. here