Florida Legislative Candidates Assail Education Cuts; Urge Testing Reforms | Scathing Purple Musings

Florida Legislative Candidates Assail Education Cuts; Urge Testing Reforms | Scathing Purple Musings:

Florida Legislative Candidates Assail Education Cuts; Urge Testing Reforms

by Bob Sikes

From Orlando Sentinel reporter John Busdecker:

More than any other issue discussed at Wednesday’s “Florida’s People, Florida’s Promise” forum for legislative candidates, it was education that dominated the conversation.
Several of the 16 candidates — both Democrats and Republicans — who spoke called for increased funding of public education and the need to reform the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
“I think we are tremendously overtesting our kids,” said John Bush, a Republican running in House District 28, which covers most of eastern Seminole County.
For more than three hours at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, an audience of more than 150