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Newspaper Rails Florida Double Standard
Ohanian Comment: The St. Petersburg Times does not allow full articles to be reproduced on this site, but the link will take you to their site. The full editorial is worth reading.
For a man who sees his job as holding a gun to Florida schools, Education Commissioner Jim Horne turns mellow about vouchers. Private schools receiving public money don't need standardized tests, state certification of teachers or an approved curriculum, and the state doesn't need to worry all that much about financial audits. "The primary accountability and responsibility," Horne says, "lies with the parent."
This line of logic is also embraced by the organizations that are dispensing school vouchers, the groups Horne is supposed to regulate. In fact, Tina Dupree, director of Miami-based Florida Child, the state's largest corporate tax credit voucher organization, was more blunt in remarks recently to the Miami Herald. "If the parent is satisfied," she said, "why should (taxpayers) even care?"
See url below
— editorial
School double standards
St. Petersburg Times
2003-08-03
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/03/Perspective/School_double_standar.shtml
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