Posted: April 02, 2010

The legislation proposed by Republican leaders this year places an unfunded mandate on school districts, punishes all public school teachers and students, puts an inordinate amount of attention of standardized tests, and generally just continues the GOP's assault on public education in our state.

There are ways to improve education in Florida without using a sledge hammer. But with the inevitable expansion of the Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship, aka vouchers, I am increasingly convinced that their ultimate goal is to slowly kill public education, not improve it.