Vouchers, class size up in air for GOP

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Wed, Mar. 22, 2006

Vouchers, class size up in air for GOP
Proposed amendments to save private-school vouchers and redo class-size limits could fail amid a leadership battle in the state Senate.
BY GARY FINEOUT
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TALLAHASSEE - Two of Gov. Jeb Bush's most important education initiatives -- restoring school vouchers and easing class-size caps -- appear to be in trouble in the Republican-controlled Senate.

At this point, GOP lawmakers appear unable to muster the three-fifths majority of votes needed in the Senate to place proposed constitutional amendments on vouchers and class size on this fall's ballot. Each would require the support of 24 of 26 Republicans in the chamber.

The class-size measure has yet to come up for its first vote in a Senate committee, while Sen. Ken Pruitt, the Port St. Lucie Republican who is in line to be the next president, has not filed legislation aimed at saving the private-school voucher program that was struck down by the state Supreme Court in January. The court ruled that the state's voucher program, set up in 1999, violates requirements for a uniform school system.

''It's still very early in the process,'' said Pruitt. ``It just takes time for these issues to gel.''
Bush, who urged lawmakers to save the voucher program in his State of the State speech, also tried to downplay any anxiety at this point.
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[bullimiami]

1. jeb you fucking slimeball. we passed the class size amendment...

you refuse to enact what the voters and now the constitution mandates.
instead you are determined to pass another amendment to overturn the last one and try to legalize an unconstitutional voucher program by amending the constitution.

WHAT A BASTARD.