Will Rick Scott’s Parent Trigger Push Bring California Style Fraud to Florida?
Largely escaping the notice by Florida’s ed policy observers this week was a blurb from the Miami Herald that the so-called “parent trigger law ” is part of Rick Scott’s agenda for schools in the next legislative session. Scott’s mouthpieces just didn’t call it that.
* EDUCATION — The governor appears to be reviving the proposal to require a percentage of a school’s budget be spent on the classroom with a plan to require the classroom spending in districts “not meeting standards.” He also is considering asking legislators to adopt the Texasapproach to higher education “and better link job market demands to degrees.” A Tier 2 priority is creating “Education Spending Accounts” so that parents can take money from the public school system and spend it on outside educational needs.
* PUBLIC PENSIONS — Unnamed reforms to the Florida Retirement System appear on the
