Hold Will Weatherford Accountable
There’s no surprise that Florida’s republican legislators will be expanding the privatization of education in the next legislative session. No state is moving toward privatization faster than Florida. In this space here yesterday I reported that Rick Scott intends to advance Parent Trigger legislation – warts and all. GRADEBOOK’s Jeffrey Solochek reports that the legislature will be looking to expand the state’s corporate tax credit. Solochek interviewed House-speaker-in waiting Will Weatherford:
They did it last year. And there’s talk that Florida lawmakers might do it again.
“There may be an opportunity to expand the corporate tax scholarship fund,” said House speaker-in-waiting Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel.
The demand is proven, he told the Gradebook.
“There’s still a waiting list” of students requesting the vouchers, he said. “There’s still a cap on the
