Florida’s teachers union has had its leftist dreams crushed twice recently concerning the state’s new online curriculum transparency law which shows parents what their children are being taught.

Director of Education Policy at the Goldwater Institute, Matt Beienburg, wrote an op-ed at Fox News that lays out how teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten is having to learn to live with disappointment after a judge roasted the union for pitching a fit over curriculum transparency. Vice President Kamala Harris also needs to take a seat after lying about what is being taught concerning black history in Florida.

“Earlier this year, the state’s teachers union – the Florida Education Association (FEA) – filed to block the implementation of Florida’s 2022 online curriculum transparency legislation, which requires each public school district to ‘publish on its website, in a searchable format prescribed by the department, a list of all instructional materials’ and a ‘list of all materials maintained in the school library media center or required as part of a school or grade-level reading list,'” Beienburg wrote.

The union once again cried that the implementation of the curriculum transparency legislation would cost too much, but this time, a judge wasn’t buying that argument. Beienburg pointed out that the judge asserted that “the union’s talking points amounted to little more than hot air and hysteria.”

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“Ms. Barber, president of FEA [teachers union], testified about the purported effects of the rules on teachers and media specialists… cit[ing] as a ‘cost,’ the decision by the Manatee County School District to offer non-contracted hourly pay to media specialists for them to complete work outside their normal work schedules,” the judge recounted.

“In fact, in her deposition taken six days prior to the final hearing, Ms. Barber was unaware of any media specialists who had been paid non-contracted hours in order to comply with the Rules. Ms. Barber’s testimony at the final hearing, in which she claimed to be aware of non-contracted hourly work, is not credible, is rejected as unpersuasive, and was based largely on hearsay,” the judge contended, alluding to the fact that the union president basically lied.

The court pointed out that school districts were already equipped to implement the online curriculum transparency legislation and that the cost would be minimal.

“Most districts already had a computerized system in place for cataloging materials (i.e. ‘Destiny’); districts were not required to purchase any new system or software (the districts could post the information in a ‘PDF’ document format); and the cataloging requirement was flexible,” the court noted.

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In closing the op-ed, Beienburg stated that really the only thing standing in the way of online curriculum transparency was unsurprisingly the teachers’ union.

“In short, the only real barrier stopping public schools from disclosing online what they are presenting to students is… union opposition. Indeed, as the state’s commissioner of education, Manny Diaz Jr., summarized, ‘It’s sad to see the Florida teachers’ union waste their members’ hard-earned money on a frivolous lawsuit to block parents from knowing what their children are reading in classrooms,'” he wrote.

“Under the legislation signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has taken the lead in advancing online curriculum transparency. Now, it is up to the Sunshine State or others to build on this foundation and enact the provisions of the full Academic Transparency Act to ensure that all supplemental material – whether essays like the 1619 Project or other politically activist articles or videos – presented to students are disclosed to parents and the public online,” Beienburg concluded.

Shared by an alert reader: This is awesome. Ohio should follow their lead. Florida’s 2022 online curriculum transparency legislation requires each public school district to “publish on its website, in a searchable format prescribed by the department, a list of all instructional…

— Jonathan Broadbent (@jrbroadbent) August 8, 2023

Parents having access to school curriculums has been an issue across the nation for decades. Transparency is long overdue and parents are waking up to the fact that the teachers’ union is purportedly trying to prevent it from happening.

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