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Stand Up For Sisterhood. Keep Sororities Female.

Single-sex spaces have played an important role in elevating women. Sororities give women a safe environment, privacy, and opportunities for them to become leaders and build a network so they can thrive in business and professional life.

Unfortunately, many of the so-called leaders in our country no longer prioritize women’s interests and men are gaining access to single-sex spaces, including sororities.

The University of Wyoming’s Kappa Kappa Gamma (Kappa) chapter was pressured to admit a man, who often identifies as a woman, into their all-female membership. Brave women in that sorority are now speaking out against this breach of sorority rules and bylaws and the sex discrimination they face in their own single-sex sorority.

Join them in their fight to preserve sisterhood. If we don’t, then all single-sex spaces and experiences will cease to exist. Sign the petition to make your voice heard. 

PETITION: Female-only spaces and clubs shouldn’t be forced to admit males. Single-sex sororities exist to provide a supportive and safe place for women to live, learn, and together experience sisterhood. These all-female organizations provide their members with leadership, philanthropic, and networking opportunities. For those who do not want a single-sex experience, many colleges today host co-ed fraternities in addition to an array of single-sex fraternities and sororities. But students who want the single-sex experience and who join a sorority on the promise that membership will be limited to women should not then be forced to include males in sorority activities and private spaces.

This is why I’m joining Independent Women’s Network and people across the country in urging National Panhellenic organizations to uphold Kappa’s bylaws, stand up for sisterhood, and keep sororities female. National sorority headquarters and university chapters must reject efforts to disrupt female-only spaces and undermine the sisterhood. 

I support the brave Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sisters who are speaking out against the injustice.

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Support Education Freedom in Florida

Florida parents, help is on the way in the form of an education policy that will expand the state’s education options and empower parents.  

The Florida House has introduced H.B. 1, which will expand access to K-12 education savings accounts (ESA) in Florida.  Almost 70,000 Florida students with disabilities are already benefiting from ESAs through the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program for Unique Abilities. It’s time to expand the opportunity to more families and students.

H.B. 1 transforms the existing Family Empowerment Scholarship Program and Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program into ESAs and lifts the programs’ existing income caps. ESA programs take the education funding allocated to each child and deposit it into an education savings account for that child. Parents can direct the funds for eligible education expenses, including tuition, tutoring, textbooks, and therapies. 

More than three-quarters (79%) of Florida parents surveyed support the concept of K-12 ESAs.  It’s no wonder so many parents want this for their child. When we empower families with educational options, we best serve the unique talents, strengths, and interests of children. When students thrive in the educational system that best fits them, they go on to do amazing things. 

The bill is moving swiftly through the legislative process. If passed, this means that families can apply for accounts worth approximately $8,000 per child for each child (students with disabilities receive additional funding). The program will phase in over time, capping the number of participating families who homeschool to 20,000 in 2023-24 and increase by 40,000 students in every subsequent school year. Public school and rising kindergarten students who are not already enrolled in a private school or homeschool would be eligible to leave the public school system and access ESAs.

Your voice matters in this conversation and legislators need to hear from parents now.  

About a dozen states already have education savings account programs in place and state legislatures around the nation are actively considering numerous education savings accounts bills. It’s time for Florida to expand the state’s existing education savings account program so that more families can benefit from education freedom.

Tell your Florida state legislators to support education savings accounts and HB 1.

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