Florida voucher proposal narrowly derailed in legislature.Despite heavy pressure by Gov. Jeb Bush John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American politician, and was the 43rd Governor of Florida as well as the first Republican to be re-elected to that office. He is a prominent member of the Bush family: the younger brother of current President George W. , Florida lawmakers have defeated a proposal to help rescue a school voucher A school voucher, also called an education voucher, is a certificate by which parents are given the ability to pay for the education of their children at a school of their choice, rather than the public school (UK state school) to which they were assigned. program that the state Supreme Court found unconstitutional. In early May, the Republican-controlled Senate voted 23-16 for a pro-voucher constitutional amendment, but the tally fell short of the 24 votes needed. The measure would have exempted the voucher scheme from state constitutional provisions that ban public money for religious education and require a uniform system of free public education. In January, Florida's highest court invalidated the voucher plan, a major part of Gov. Bush's education agenda, saying that it ran afoul of a·foul of prep. 1. In or into collision, entanglement, or conflict with. 2. Up against; in trouble with: ran afoul of the law. the state constitution. Americans United co-sponsored the Bush v. Holmes lawsuit along with allies in the public education and civil liberties communities. In response, Bush began applying pressure on lawmakers to approve a constitutional amendment to save the voucher plan. Even following the defeat in the Senate, the governor, according to press reports attempted to get certain state senators to change their vote. African-American Democratic state senators accused Bush of trying to get them to switch their votes. The Tallahassee Democrat reported that voucher supporters sent black children to the capitol to "cajole (language) CAJOLE - (Chris And John's Own LanguagE) A dataflow language developed by Chris Hankin <clh@doc.ic.ac.uk> and John Sharp at Westfield College. ["The Data Flow Programming Language CAJOLE: An Informal Introduction", C.L. " the lawmakers to support Bush's effort. State Sen. Larcenia Bullard (D-Miami) called the tactic "demeaning de·mean 1 tr.v. de·meaned, de·mean·ing, de·means To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner: demeaned themselves well in class. ." |
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