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Florida Charter Schools are a “Costly Extravagance” | Scathing Purple Musings

Florida Charter Schools are a “Costly Extravagance” | Scathing Purple Musings:

Florida Charter Schools are a “Costly Extravagance”

Public education activist and parent Julie Delegal has a letter the edition in this morning’s Florida Times-Union in which she effectively maps out two main points. First, the governor and legislature are not doing its constitutionally duty to fund its schools. Second, the state’s current unchecked path to charter school expansion is a perious one:

The Florida Constitution demands adequate funding.

When it comes to examining a charter school’s application to open in Florida, performance history simply doesn’t matter. The Florida Times Union’s Topher Sanders reported that, on the subject of evaluating the academic performance of charter school organizations, Education Commissioner