FL GOP Want to End Local Control of Schools; Except When They Don’t to Get Parent Trigger Passed | Scathing Purple Musings

FL GOP Want to End Local Control of Schools; Except When They Don’t to Get Parent Trigger Passed | Scathing Purple Musings:

FL GOP Want to End Local Control of Schools; Except When They Don’t to Get Parent Trigger Passed

by Bob Sikes

So Republican Altamonte Springs senator David Simmons has crafted an amendment to Parent Trigger which he says was inspired by a letter from education commissioner Tony Bennett. StateImpact writer Gina Jordan explains:

Senators said they changed a key provision in the session’s most controversial education bill on the advice of Education Commissioner Tony Bennett.
Thursday a Senate panel approved the Parent Empowerment in Education bill, better known as the parent trigger bill.
Members altered the bill to conform with the House version, which has already been approved by the full House.
But they also made one big change: The local school board would have the final say in how to