SF3567 extends “four-day school week” approvals to six years; implements “language access plans” for non-English-speaking students; enforces compliance with the prohibition on American Indian mascots; and clarifies criteria for the “federal child and adult care food program and federal summer food service program.”
The Senate passed SF3567 on May 13, 2024, by a vote of 35 to 31. We have assigned pluses to the nays because education is not the role of government—it is the responsibility of a child’s parents or family. This bill only enlarges the government’s monopoly over K-12 education, which seeks to end traditional private schools and homeschooling in favor of universal state-sponsored schooling, effectively turning every student into a government-school student. The best “school choice,” by far, is for parents to choose not to place their child’s education in the hands of the state. Educational and economic freedom cannot be achieved by forcing other citizens to furnish their hard-earned tax dollars to fund all that now entails a compulsory, failing, and government-run K-12 school system.
