Plan of education Rick fat Scott draws the multitude of criticism (The Lookout) (Yahoo!)

Newly elected Governor of Florida Rick Scott is waves with its proposal that all children should receive education, they can use to attend private, public or rent schools.

"Parent must find out where this student dollars are spent," elected Republican Governor told the St. Petersburg Times. "So if parents want to pass on the virtual school, then spend on virtual school." If they want to move, you know, any educational system they believe that any public school or public school or private school or private school, this is what happen. »

The idea won previously save the Economist and winner of the Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman and former Governor Jeb Bush's Florida as a means of promoting competition between schools and give parents more choice in the education of their children. But there is a major hitch: the Florida Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional good private school, concluding that they endanger the free public system. And it turns out that many in the world of education disagree and not even only those connected to the union of teachers of the Florida called a "terrible idea" (though for the record, a spokesman for the union.) teachers.

The details of the plan are not always clear, but the proposed purchase would be more likely to $5,500 the contribution of the per-student average state public school students. The State should drop this amount in each child "education savings account" (theoretically every child in Florida have a) rather than in the coffers of school districts. Consistent with (State currently parsimony of vouchers for some students with disabilities and low income, a program that has not been challenged before the Court.)

"I think the idea of draining the education of the public Treasury is convenient." There is a place for public schools, they are doing great work in the community, "private Christian school senior Pucci Rick said Tampa news station." "" This plan can steal the public schools of the things that they need. I am not in favour of it. »

In an editorial, the Times of Saint - Petersburg called a "vision blurred" take money from public schools without raising new recipes to replace him. Document asked if private schools would be able to handle increased demand and also spoke of a 2009 study mandated by Congress which showed good schools students have not exercised better than those who remained in the public schools. (This study drained some support from the community far from supporting reform.)

And the opposition is not just local. Training historian Diane Ravitch tells of the Lookout Scott could delay the courts if passed by legislators, despite the decision of the Court Supreme State. She writes: "the real danger is that it sends a signal that it is politically fine attack of education of the public, which has been one of our most valuable institutions and a bulwark of our democracy".

Several conservative legislators and focus groups were aligned behind the proposal, however. "I think it is radical," Lindsey Burke, the Heritage Foundation's education policy analyst told the Miami Herald. "At this stage, the concept of radical is to intercept a child in a neglected public school. »

And the former D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee advises Scott on education, has supported the school as a way to give parents more choice vouchers.

Scott should also tackle teacher mandate and a new system for assessing teacher based in part on the results of examination student of the Institute.

(Photo by Scott: AP)

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article has been Rick Pucci as a Catholic primary school.