TALLAHASSEE – Florida’s teacher union sued Wednesday to block legislation passed last spring that expands the state’s corporate school-voucher program.
The law, called the Career and Professional Education Act, or SB 850, started as an act to expand Florida’s collegiate high school program. But it morphed on the last day of the 60-day session with a 141-page amendment that added a school-voucher expansion and creating personal-learning accounts for disabled students – thanks in part to a powerful benefactor in incoming Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando.
The lawsuit filed in Leon Circuit Court is being brought by Tom Faasse a high school social studies teacher from Lee County, who said he planned to use the example to teach a lesson to his students about “what not to do” when passing a law.
