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One Response to “Senators take aim at parent trigger” Florida – Vote No SB1718 « Continuing Change

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One Response to “Senators take aim at parent trigger” Florida – Vote No SB1718

One Response to “Senators take aim at parent trigger” Re: Post on Politics

GatorbonBC Says:
March 9th, 2012 at 12:55 am …. I think that perhaps Senate Gardiner should check the data before he speaks for parents. The fact is, of the the 2.6 million students in Florida public schools, only 137,000 students are enrolled in the state’s charter schools. Yet charter schools make up half of the failing schools in Florida. The data from last year shows that of the 31 failing schools in Florida, 15 were charter schools. 
Wow… so few charters and yet so many of them failing our kids.

How in the world is Gardiner, or any Senator who votes for this bill, empowering a parent? If the