This is surreal in almost mind boggling consequences. Pretty soon the only children
attending public school will be the poorest of the poor and the teachers will be anyone willing to work for slave wages IMO.
http://www.tampabay.com/...
Diverting......the name of the game in Florida and it is growing.
TALLAHASSEE — Without a word of debate Friday, the Florida House approved a controversial proposal that could require school districts to share tens of millions of dollars in construction funds with rival charter schools.
Just follow the money to find the corruption.....
The bill was one of four high-profile education proposals that won the support of the Republican-dominated House to end the week. The others would:
•Ease the penalties for schools that fail to comply with the constitutionally mandated limits on class size.
•Create a pilot program to give principals more control over hiring and budget decisions.
•Encourage school districts to adopt mandatory school uniform policies for children in grades K-8 by offering incentive money.
All of the Democrats in attendance voted against the charter school bill, HB 7037. But none debated the measure on the floor
On top of everything else, the incentives of money to local districts to enforce school uniforms was added into the mix. I wonder which uniform company has major stockholders sitting in the legislature.
The proposal would create the Florida Institute for Charter School Innovation to help new charter schools. It would also make it easier for top-performing charter schools to replicate themselves in high-need areas and specify that charter schools receiving back-to-back Fs would be automatically closed
The bill that passed Friday would ensure charter schools receive about 40 percent of the amount traditional public schools can raise for construction and maintenance, Fresen said.
If the state does not provide enough money in the budget, as it has done in recent years, the school districts would have to make up the difference with their tax revenue.
That Fresen sponsored the amendment was controversial. His firm has helped build several charter schools, and his brother-in-law runs Academica, the state's largest charter school management company.
Fresen said he did not consider the amendment to be a conflict of interest because it would not increase funding for charter schools.
Well this Fresen is a bit delusional me thinks. Of course public schools will soar and no charter schools will get funding !!! Really?
One Republican in the article opposed the bill wanting more money to go to the public school system. There was still no debate on all of this.
The bill creating a principal pilot project, HB 357, passed 100-8. The proposal encouraging school uniform policies, HB 7043, passed 102-8.
The class size proposal, HB 665, found only three opponents: Pafford, Rep. José Javier Rodríguez, D-Miami, and Rep. Joe Geller, D-Aventura.
The bill aims to lessen the penalties for school districts that don't comply with the constitutional limit on class size. The penalties would now be calculated based on the average class size at each school, instead of the total number of classrooms that exceed the cap.
School systems had asked for the change, saying it was a logistical challenge to meet the requirement and the penalties were too harsh.
All said and done Florida is very busy getting ready for Jeb or Rubio while sitting on Oil infested beaches, high waters in Miami, hotter summers, fracking the everglades and chasing a little white ball all over the not yet flooded greens of the rich golf courses.
There is a man in power who thinks he is a king and the poor teapublicans running around demanding NO Government intrusion while they dress their kids and grandkids in their little uniforms for King of Medicare Fraud. No need to educate these children in Florida, they can be educated in the most populated prison system in America that is privatized. Scott got the prisons, the medical facilities and now he and his minions want the schools... Ahhhh.....Welcome to the Sunshine State.
Florida had better be getting about the 90 for 90 bandwagon to register voters to get these people out of office. See link about registering voters in Virginia. Call it what you want but registering people to become aware of what is happening has to be a priority.
http://www.90for90.org/
