Join the 7069 suit, part 2: the public must take back the power to kill VAM and drive common purpose
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I have taken to saying recently that the state government in Tallahassee is a disease on education -- and that local districts present the symptoms. I know nothing that better represents this than our most recent VAM transfers. These transfers also represent how little power the voting public has to influence the educational policies of their own communities and state. No elected body signed off on these transfers, which were a product entirely of coercive interaction between bureaucrats in Tallahassee and bureaucrats in Bartow. The public had no say. That's how everybody in power seems to want it.
Join the 7069 suit, part 2: the public must take back the power to kill VAM and drive common purpose
Join the 7069 suit, part 2: the public must…
Join the 7069 suit, part 2: the public must take back the power to kill VAM and drive common purpose
I have taken to saying recently that the state government in Tallahassee is a disease on education -- and that local districts present the symptoms. I know nothing that better represents this than our most recent VAM transfers. These transfers also represent how little power the voting public has to influence the educational policies of their own communities and state. No elected body signed off on these transfers, which were a product entirely of coercive interaction between bureaucrats in Tallahassee and bureaucrats in Bartow. The public had no say. That's how everybody in power seems to want it.