Back from the dead?

Will the voucher expansion effort come back to life? From the Gradebook blog: Controversial voucher bill gets a second chance in the Florida Legislature

Many observers thought the proposed expansion of the school voucher program was off the table after Sen. Bill Galvano withdrew the Senate version of the bill (SB 1620) last week. Without a companion in the upper chamber, the House school voucher bill (HB 7099) stood virtually no chance of becoming law.

But late Wednesday, Rep. Erik Fresen combined the voucher language with a separate bill creating education savings accounts for special-needs children. That bill (HB 1503, now PCB EDAS 14-03) has a counterpart in the Senate (SB 1512), and is thus still in play.

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2 Responses to Back from the dead?

  1. Pierce R. Butler says:

    I expected this to happen during the traditional frenzied final week of the session.

    At least this gives voucher opponents more time to mobilize and (with luck) convince some legislators to get some resistance moving.

    Call those legislators, folks!

  2. Ivorygirl says:

    Greg Mayer has a post on this issue on the Why Evolution is True web site http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/yet-more-government-support-for-creationism/

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