| 3/11/2021
The tug-of-war over public education in Florida
Despite school board members constitutional authority, for years the Florida Legislature has chipped away at the once-sacrosanct ideal of local control in public education, one piece of legislation at a time. That was especially true when Richard Corcoran served as the powerful Republican speaker of the Florida House. Now that he is state education commissioner, he has used his position to force one of the biggest battles yet over who s in charge of public schools: a mandate to open classrooms during a pandemic. [Source: WLRN]
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