Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Florida’s Future has released its annual report card for members of the Legislature. As we have editorialized strongly time and again against school “choice” schemes, this rating is an important barometer from where we sit. While the Democrats in the House did quite well from our vantage point, the Senate was a different matter entirely.
The full report card can be found here.
The Florida Squeeze 
Every Democrat has a “F”. I think this officially qualified this organization as partisan!
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Jeremy Ring is a hack.
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The scores and corresponding grades for the Democrats will generally correlate to campaign contributions. The Dems in the House won’t take charter school money, whereas many in the Senate will. Follow the money.
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Time for primaries
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Thank you, Representative Perry Thurston for holding the House members together in support of public education!
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Leader Thurston and Leader Designee Pafford deserve the credit
Do you really think the usual suspects of Ds hold together without the strong caucus leadership?
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Honestly the caucus leadership is clownish. They are only able to hold the line on easy issues. This is the easiest issue of all. No true democrat is voting for vouchers.
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We had a lot of suspect Demos on this issue in the House. The same group that votes with big business and the polluters all the time.
As for the Senate leadership is non existent.
Lots of these Democrats in the legislature
are a waste of time and space.
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Bush’s foundation has been around forever and has gone from being a conservative think tank to simply a hack outfit promoting vouchers.
I could care less what grades they give anyone.
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Democrats are so stupid on this issue.
The opportunity exists to improve schools and give minorities great access to what will help them.
But because of the teachers unions and the amount of $$$ they throw into political campaigns they control these liberal votes.
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Think! You are clueless.
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Soto made a deal.
He wants Grayson’s seat.
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The biggest problem I find here is that this site and other Democrats have been so fired up about this particular issue that you essentially given passes to members for voting poorly on other matters.
I am happy that with the exception of a handful of Senators the Democrats all stuck together on defending public schools. That does not excuse all the other bad votes including the chamber scores we saw the other day and the divisions causing the House Democratic caucus by troublemakers.
Yes this might be the most important issue but it’s not the only one.
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If the House leadership is so great how come they could only maintain unity on the easy issues, ones where very few Ds disent?
I have read around the web including on this blog about all the divisions in the caucus. These divisions have been caused by leaders more than anything else.
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