Revisit class-size limits -- OrlandoSentinel.com:
"Fed up with subpar schools and do-little lawmakers, state voters in 2002 took matters into their own hands.
Relying on promises that leaner classrooms would spur wide-ranging benefits and reform Florida's troubled schools, voters passed Amendment 9. The measure set mandatory class-size limits into constitutional cement.
Parents hailed its approval as a crowning feat, while others predicted a crushing folly. Florida TaxWatch, a respected financial watchdog group, said passing Amendment 9 would be a 'blunder of major fiscal proportions.'
Seven years later, that warning is coming true."
"Fed up with subpar schools and do-little lawmakers, state voters in 2002 took matters into their own hands.
Relying on promises that leaner classrooms would spur wide-ranging benefits and reform Florida's troubled schools, voters passed Amendment 9. The measure set mandatory class-size limits into constitutional cement.
Parents hailed its approval as a crowning feat, while others predicted a crushing folly. Florida TaxWatch, a respected financial watchdog group, said passing Amendment 9 would be a 'blunder of major fiscal proportions.'
Seven years later, that warning is coming true."
