TALLAHASSEE — It’s become one of the perennial fights in the Florida Legislature.
In one corner: cash-strapped school systems with aging facilities and billions of dollars tied up in debt service.
In the other: charter schools looking to build and refurbish facilities of their own.
Both want dollars from the Public Education Capital Outlay (PECO) trust fund, an ever-shrinking pot of money generated by a disappearing tax on cable TV and landline telephones.
