[Dominick]

Last week he vetoed a popular education bill as a favor to the state teachers union, repudiating a decade-long GOP effort to bring accountability to the state's schools.

This was not what this claims. Among conservatives SB6 was a power grab from Tallahassee. We like to run our own school board thanks. This would serve to grow more administrators in the state capitol.

One big problem we have in our school districts is that we get district level people in jobs that pay $150k plus, and teachers who can't get materials for classes. Many teachers in Tampa have given up asking and just buy materials out of their own pocket or beg parents.

If you look at the Hillsborough school budget, $1,677,174,393.38 was taken in. From that $97 million went to the Administration of the district, not to schools. Thats more than school lunches and disabled services.

Its probably worse in other counties where we have less fiscal responsibility.

[clintonh8r]

We don’t run our own school boards under the current system. The unions and developers do through their stooges on the board. Until the union grip is broken the taxpayers really have no say in how schools are run. SB6 was a step in the right direction. I hope its veto will be the last nail in Crist’s political coffin.