The Florida Education Association filed suit to block the expansion of vouchers. In their legal challenge, the teachers’ union said the law was passed at the last minute and “violates the constitutional requirement that legislative proposals be limited to a single subject.”
“The lawsuit from the Florida Education Association raises concerns about the way SB 850 became law. Some of the bill’s more contentious provisions, including the voucher expansion and the scholarship accounts, started out as stand-alone proposals that had difficulty finding support. They were added to a bill establishing collegiate high schools on the second-to-last day of the legislative session.”
In 2012, Florida voters turned down a proposal to change the state constitution to permit vouchers by a margin of 58-42.
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Hi Diane,
The 2012 voter initiative did not address vouchers: http://stateimpact.npr.org/florida/tag/amendment-8/
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The 2012 voter initiative, known as Proposition 8, was about removing the Blaine amendment from the state constitution, so that Floridians could use public funds to attend religious schools. It was about vouchers.
Read the article you included: “Florida voters will decide this fall on Amendment 8, which would strip from the state constitution language prohibiting public funding for churches or other religious-affiliated groups.
The ballot question is likely to be one of the most contested of the 2012 election.
Supporters argue the amendment would protect church or religiously-affiliated charities which provide social services, such as prison ministries, soup kitchens or disaster relief efforts.
Opponents believe approving Amendment 8 would open the door for lawmakers to approve private school vouchers.”
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Hi Diane,
Your description is and remains inaccurate. An entirely separate bill would be required to allow vouchers. You are making it sound like that amendment would create vouchers and thus, by voting it down, voters said they don’t want vouchers. You are misleading your readers.
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This is how they are trying to get the Alabama Accountability Act repealed as well. I hope that this lawsuit in Florida as well as the efforts to get rid of the Alabama Accountability Act are successful.
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Just like Washington snuck in monies to TFA and granted an extension of its “highly qualified” status during the government shutdown. Angry? Absolutely. Will I remember at the ballot box? Yes.
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Massachusetts Charter Schools
Today, the Massachusetts State Senate voted against S2262, a bill to lift the cap on charter school enrollment in the state’s lowest-performing public school districts.
this just came through my email at 5:40 est
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