SCOFLA to students: Screw you!

Florida high court strikes down school vouchers

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a school voucher program that allowed some students to attend private schools with taxpayers' money, a key component of Gov. Jeb Bush's education reforms.

A Bush campaign promise that became a model for other U.S. programs, the Florida system allowed parents of students in chronically failing public schools to use their public school allocation to offset private school tuition.

The program now serves about 700 students, but critics said it was an underhand method to fund religious schools.

In a 5-2 decision, the high court ruled the 6-year-old program undermines a constitutional mandate to provide an adequate and uniform system of public education by pulling taxpayer money away from public schools and giving it to private ones that are not held to the same standards.

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The Supreme Court of Florida (SCOFLA), the same bunch that ignored Florida's statutory election law and threw the 2000 election into a state of bedlam has decided that the best interests of Florida's poor students take a backseat to the those of the teachers' unions.

Remember this the next time you hear a "liberal" claiming that conservatives -- who favor the right of parents to choose the best schools for their kids -- are racists intent upon ensuring that poor (read minorty) children receive fourth rate educations.

The Democrats are a party so in thrall to the National Education Association that they are willing to sacrifice the futures of millions of kids to the interests of their grubstakers.

Way to keep 'em poor and stupid!