Florida chamber opposes ed governance overhaul
The Florida Chamber today released a statement expressing its opposition to the proposed education governance overhaul pending in the Legislature (specifically the House) -- joining the Florida Council of 100 and newspaper editorial boards across the state.
"We urge patience and encourage Florida ’s leaders to avoid additional politicization, complexity or separateness to the governance of our K-20 system," the Chamber said, urging lawmakers not to send voters the proposed constitutional amendment that would make the education commissioner elected and reduce the university system governing board's size and scope.
The Chamber, stressing that higher education is "essential to the new economy and will be at the center of any comprehensive platform aligning Florida ’s future economic aspirations," also has formed a task force to develop recommendations for future higher education policy in Florida.
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Evidently the Chamber did not get the Memo: Do not darken our doorstep for a while you poison tasters!
Posted by: | April 25, 2008 at 01:33 PM
They are going to start losing lots of credibility very soon.
Posted by: | April 25, 2008 at 01:48 PM
I'm glad someone is stepping up to oppose that terrible idea
Posted by: | April 25, 2008 at 02:06 PM
Does this mean the NRA is for it?
Posted by: | April 25, 2008 at 02:14 PM
What's less credible, standing up for education or politicizing it. I don't always agree with Chamber but I think they got this one right
Posted by: | April 25, 2008 at 02:18 PM
Though I don't always agree with the chamber, they are RIGHT ON here. This is a horrible idea!
Posted by: | April 25, 2008 at 02:43 PM
Of course... the chamber supports any thing or place where guns are prohibited...
Posted by: | April 25, 2008 at 02:51 PM
Florida - if this passes, and Ken Pruitt becomes an elected Education Commissioner - are you prepared to live with the fact that the person who oversees public education has 0 higher ed degree?
Posted by: | April 25, 2008 at 02:57 PM
get over the gun thing. This is about education. Stop proving why we should be leery of lame-os like you
Posted by: | April 25, 2008 at 03:07 PM
Anything is better than the status quo. Look at how they're holding education "harmless" under the current arrangement.
Posted by: | April 25, 2008 at 03:38 PM
Can we go back to what Florida was before JEB Bush came to ripoff everything not nailed down? How long will it take for us to rebuild from the damage he did at every level?
Posted by: | April 25, 2008 at 05:03 PM
Mark Wilson and David Daniel are completely impotent as a leadership team. With the amount of goodwill that organization it has on name alone, they should be dominating. Bring Frank Ryll back.
Posted by: | April 27, 2008 at 01:17 AM