Rightrdia doesn't know why Scott keeps banging the healthcare drum. He is now the governor elect of Florida and needs to keep his campaign promise to put 700,000 Floridians back to work.
Scott barely defeated the democratic candidate for governor, Alex Sink. He has no mandate and said little about education during his campaign.
When Gov.-elect Rick Scott stood in a church this week and dropped a policy bomb on the education establishment -- a plan to essentially give vouchers to any family that wants one .
It could unlock an ``educational marketplace,'' said Rep. Erik Fresen, R-Miami, . . .
The parent would not be bound by an attendance boundary, but rather would have the ability to compete and put their child in whatever school they think will best meet their child's needs.
Rightardia believes that Rick Scott's education plan will run into constitutional issues. Article IX of the Florida Constitution addresses education and says:
Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools that allows students to obtain a high quality education and for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of institutions of higher learning and other public education programs that the needs of the people may require.
Are Floridians naive enough to believe that privatizing the public schools will save money? Secular human put his older son in a private school and ran into uniform purchases, and 10 hours of volunteer time per term plus quarterly fund raisers. Most private schools will not accept just a state voucher for attendance: the parent must shell out additional monthly payments.
Middle Class warrior taught public high school English for about one term and quit in disgust. It was the worst job he ever had. Rightrdia predicts that if Scott privatizes the Florida school system, a mass exodus of teachers from the state will follow.
In 2004, Kendrick Meek instituted a class size amendment that passed. Florida Republicans tried to overturn the aemndment but failed. One of the big challenges of Scott will be to find ways of complying with the constitutional class size amendment. Rightardia doesn't think vouchers is what Meek had in mind.
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