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Florida’s small school districts band together to lower health costs

By combining forces, smaller school districts have found a way to bargain for better health insurance policies for their teachers by turning to a self-insured plan.

As many Florida school districts look to close schools to cope with declining enrollment, leading to budget cuts, some are banding together to reduce another key factor to their bottom lines: health insurance premiums.  Rising health insurance costs have pushed about a third of Florida’s 67 school districts to join the Florida Educator Health Trust […]

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