Another Pro-Charter School Bill “Rammed Through” Florida Senate Committee
Reports Matt Dixon in the Florida-Times Union:
TALLAHASSEE – Legislation that would, among other things, require county school districts to share a pot of construction money with charter schools was rammed through a Senate committee Monday, leaving 12 hostile amendments on the table
At issue is about $1.9 billion that 40 school districts — including Duval and St. Johns — raise from taxpayers mostly for construction projects. Current law allows districts to share some of that money with charter schools, but most don’t.
Under the bill sponsored by state Sen. Stephen Wise, R-Jacksonville, that sharing would be