Is Florida spending its migrant education funds properly?
Leaders of several Florida civil rights and non-profit organizations including LULAC, the NAACP and the United Chinese Association are demanding that Gov. Rick Scott prove that the state is following all the federal rules and guidelines for supporting migrant education.
They want to make sure that Florida, which has more than 50,000 children eligible for the program, isn't in the same boat as Indiana — where newly appointed education commissioner Tony Bennett comes from — and that it won't ever be,
Earlier this fall, the U.S. Department of Education reported that Indiana had failed to draw down any of its federal funds to support migrant students.