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Challenging the Ethics of Florida Legislators on Charter Schools | Scathing Purple Musings

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Challenging the Ethics of Florida Legislators on Charter Schools

St. Petersburg Times columnist Daniel Ruth doesn’t hold much back in his scathing review of Florida legislators who operate charter schools. First, for New Port Richey republican state representative John Legg:
The latest example of the Florida Legislature treating its responsibilities as if they were little more than a yummy feeding trough full of Beluga caviar, begins, but hardly ends, with Port Richey Republican state Rep. John Legg, who used his juice in Tallahassee to benefit a charter school run by a nonprofit he helped found.
As the St. Petersburg Times‘ Jeffrey Solochek reported, when the Pasco County School Board