{"id":521,"date":"2006-05-01T06:33:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T10:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=521"},"modified":"2006-05-01T06:33:29","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T10:33:29","slug":"do-or-die-for-florida-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Do or die for Florida vouchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today or tomorrow is do-or-die day for the Florida voucher policies, I think. The Florida senate will be voting on whether to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would authorize the legislature to create voucher programs. Without a constitutional amendment, there is a real possibility that Florida&#8217;s courts will use the January <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridasupremecourt.org\/decisions\/2006\/sc04-2323.pdf\">Bush v. Holmes<\/a> decision as a precedent for striking down the much larger voucher program for students with disabilities and the corporate income-tax-credit voucher program in Florida.<br \/>\nThere has to be a three-fifths supermajority for the proposal to get on the ballot.  It will be close, close enough that wealthy businessman and voucher proponent John Kirtley is spending money on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2006\/05\/01\/State\/Voucher_ads_target_bl.shtml\">radio ads targeting the constituents of two Black senators<\/a> to change their positions. The news will probably be relayed first on the <a href=\"http:\/\/tdo.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/section?Category=CAPITOLNEWS\">Tallahassee Democrat Online&#8217;s capitol news page<\/a>. Even if the measure does get on the ballot, passage is doubtful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today or tomorrow is do-or-die day for the Florida voucher policies, I think. The Florida senate will be voting on whether to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would authorize the legislature to create voucher programs. Without a constitutional amendment, there is a real possibility that Florida&#8217;s courts will use the January [&hellip;]<\/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-521","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-8p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}