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The Gainsville Sun: The Taxation and Budget Reform Commission is created every 20 years to examine Florida's fiscal structure. It has the authority to put constitutional amendments directly on the ballot, and this year the commission offered up several. Reportedly, many of the commission members are Bush loyalists who are determined to preserve the former governor's educational "legacy." And diverting money from public schools to private schools was central to Bush's education "reform" scheme. To fool voters even more, commissioners added to Amendment 9 a politically appealing, but practically meaningless, provision "Requiring 65 percent of school funding for classroom instruction." The implication is that more school funds will be directly targeted at teachers and classroom activities. But that's a ruse to sell an amendment that is otherwise intended to clear the way for more state spending on private, not public, schools.
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