Florida Chamber of Commerce Legislative Goals: Merit Pay, Union Busting and Protecting High-Stakes Testing | Scathing Purple Musings

Florida Chamber of Commerce Legislative Goals: Merit Pay, Union Busting and Protecting High-Stakes Testing | Scathing Purple Musings:

Florida Chamber of Commerce Legislative Goals: Merit Pay, Union Busting and Protecting High-Stakes Testing

by Bob Sikes

After cutting through lofty platitudes in their legislative agenda the FCOC include these talking points about education.
First in their letter to “Letter to Florida Business Leaders”

*Education reform is hurting because union leaders make it about the adults when it should be all about kids. Union dues enable them to have thousands of people working against making America more competitive.
*Mandates in the classroom continue to increase costs in an education system where too much goes into bureaucracy and not enough goes to good teachers and into the classroom.

And these legislative goals:

*Pass parent empowerment legislation that lets a majority of parents attending failing schools