{"id":518,"date":"2006-04-28T21:07:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T01:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=518"},"modified":"2006-04-28T21:07:22","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T01:07:22","slug":"florida-ed-news-class-size-cap-repeal-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Florida ed news: Class-size cap repeal killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, the Florida senate vote on the Republican leadership&#8217;s attempt to repeal or soften the constitutional class-size cap <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2006\/04\/28\/State\/Class_size_tweak_defe.shtml\">failed to muster even a majority<\/a>, let alone the three-fifths supermajority needed in each house to go directly to the ballot.<br \/>\nMore Florida ed politics on the jump&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr width=\"25%\">\nIf the class-size softening referendum were on the ballot, it would have been the first test of the 65-percent proposal in a large state. I think the combination would have sunk the initiative, because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000445.html\">different ways the 65-percent proposal can be attacked in a referendum campaign<\/a>. That wasn&#8217;t the intent of attaching the 65-percent proposal, but it would have been inevitable&#8230; and that&#8217;s not even considering the fundamental philosophical inconsistency of such a combination.  (<em>Let&#8217;s lift some of the rigidity of the class-size caps, because we should give more flexibility to school districts to use resources in the way they know best.  Oh, yes, and let&#8217;s make sure they don&#8217;t spend more than 35% on air conditioning, nurses, libraries, and buses.<\/em>) The contradictions wouldn&#8217;t have been of much political interest, but everything else would have.<br \/>\nNext up in the Florida Constitutional Roulette: vouchers. After the January state court decision killing the failing-schools voucher program, Governor Bush is keen to place a referendum on November&#8217;s ballot to ask voters to let the legislature create voucher programs. Even if the state senate approves the referendum, I doubt voters will go for it. And given the surprising margin in today&#8217;s vote on class-size caps, I&#8217;m skeptical it will even get to the ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, the Florida senate vote on the Republican leadership&#8217;s attempt to repeal or soften the constitutional class-size cap failed to muster even a majority, let alone the three-fifths supermajority needed in each house to go directly to the ballot. More Florida ed politics on the jump&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-8m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}