Florida Republican Worried About Charter School Failure
Wow. Looks like Maitland republican Senator David Simmons didn’t get the memo. From Leslie Postal writing inSentinel School Zone:
At a Florida Senate committee meeting last week, Sen. David Simmons made it clear he was worried about charter schools that opened and then later closed.
“When we see the failure of a charter school, it sullies the name of all charter schools and the movement itself,” said the Maitland Republican.
Simmons said he worried that money spent on these failed charters was money wasted. He mentioned it several times during a meeting of the Senate’s budget subcommittee on Pre-k-12 education.
“The finanical impact is great,” he said. “Some of them are failing, and that’s a financial issue…