Students, families, and educators need your support.
In our school and in public schools across Florida students are struggling every day because our classrooms do not have the technology we need to learn. Many of our laptops are slow, broken, or outdated. The Wi‑Fi often fails. Students lose class time every week, sometimes every day, because technology doesn’t work. Our student survey proves the seriousness of this issue:

90% of students say they do NOT have enough access to technology.
Nearly 70% say tech problems interrupt learning multiple times per week.
Almost half say slow or unreliable internet is the #1 problem.
Technology is no longer a luxury it’s required for research, classwork, online programs, testing, and preparing for future careers. When students don’t have working devices or stable internet, they fall behind through no fault of their own. Teachers also lose valuable instruction time, and many parents worry their children won’t be prepared for high school, college, or future jobs.

 
 Why Is This Happening?
Public schools across Florida don’t have enough funding to maintain working technology. According to statewide reports, Florida ranks among the worst‑funded states for K–12 education, which means districts simply do not receive the money they need for basic resources—especially technology. At the same time:

Florida Policy Institute reports that $3.9 billion is being drained from public schools in one year due to private‑school vouchers.
Districts like Sarasota County have lost more than $45 million because public funding is being redirected away from public classrooms.
When public school money is sent to private schools, public school students lose access to working computers, reliable internet, tutoring, and essential learning tools—every single year. This is a public policy problem, and only the Florida Legislature can fix it.

 
What We Are Asking For
We are calling on the Florida Legislature and the Governor to:

• Stop draining public school funding into private‑school vouchers.
• Redirect this public money back into the Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP).
• Ensure districts have the funding necessary to repair and replace technology, upgrade internet, and provide every student with the devices they need to learn.
• Only the state government has the power to change the budget and protect public schools. Redirecting voucher funds back into public education is the most effective, realistic way to fix the technology crisis hurting students right now.

Who Is Affected?

• Students, who lose learning time because devices don’t work.
• Teachers, who can’t teach effectively without reliable technology.
• Parents, who depend on public schools to prepare their children for the future.
• Communities, because underfunded schools affect everyone.

Our research, surveys, teacher interviews, and statewide data all make one thing clear:
Public schools do not have the technology they need because they do not have the funding they deserve.

Why We Need YOUR Signature
Students are speaking up. Teachers are speaking up. Families are speaking up.
But lawmakers will pay attention only if we show that thousands of people across Florida care about protecting public schools.

Our goal is to collect 50,000 signatures to demand that the Legislature stop underfunding public schools and restore the money needed for working technology, functioning Wi‑Fi, and equal learning opportunities.

We believe that every student—no matter their ZIP code or family income—deserves access to modern learning tools.

 
Add Your Name. Stand With Florida’s Students. Protect Public Schools.
Together, we can make sure public school funding stays where it belongs:
in public schools, supporting the students who need it most.