A Florida law went into effect on July 1st allowing schools to create chaplain programs. AU hosted a webinar about it. Here is the link to that recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gpLsqnVMjc
Forward from AU:
This is a summary of the actions we’ve asked people to take:
- Sign up to monitor local school board agendas for proposed chaplain policies.
- Can’t be a monitor? Reach out to FLchaplains@au.org if you see or hear of any chaplain policies being proposed.
- Ask chaplains in your network (or contacts with connections to chaplains) to sign onto this opposition letter and encourage all religious leaders in your network to speak out against implementing a public school chaplains program.
- Raise awareness: Speak to your friends, family, and people in your community about the public school chaplains law.
- Check out our volunteer guide including talking points.
We need more monitors, so if you haven’t signed up yet and are able to commit to monitoring at least one district twice per week, please sign up ASAP.
We’ll assign you one of the districts that we still don’t have a monitor for and send you the link to the spreadsheet with resources for monitoring the district as well as the link to the reporting form.
Thank you!
Also School Board races are on the August ballot in many school districts. You can find the link to your Duval County sample ballot at this website:
https://www.duvalelections.com/Voter-Information/Polling-Location-Finder
Also these judges will be on the August ballot in Duval:
Here’s a link to a forum with those judges:
https://www.jaxbar.org/page/JF24
Early voting is
August 5 to 18
from 10 am to 6 pm
at most libraries
in Duval County.
Sample ballots are available.
