From office of State Sen. Rosalind Osgood:
Tallahassee, FL – In response to HB 1259 – Education passing in the Senate today, Senator Rosalind Osgood (D-Tamarac) released the following statement:
“HB 1259 will cause great financial hardship on our traditional public schools. I support all schools, traditional, public, charter public and private schools. However, I believe we can fund educational opportunities in the State of Florida without taking money from one and giving it to the other.
Capital funds are neither collected nor spent on a per student basis but based on facility needs. This bill is regressive and problematic in many ways. HB 1259 will make it impossible for school districts to fund five-year facility plans required by State statute. School districts will not be able to meet debt obligations for new construction.
Broward County Schools will lose approximately $56,023,741 over the next five years. I encourage the Governor to veto this bill and allow a task force of Traditional Public School Superintendents and Charter School Operators to work together to propose a more fiscally appropriate solution.”
REDBROWARD 
This is basic math, not calculus! If you have $100. to fund your public schools and the government says, “You need to also fund PRIVATE Schools and RELIGIOUS schools, and HOME schools, guess who suffers???? The PUBLIC schools…because the portion that private schools get from our taxes will SUPPLEMENT what their wealthy parents already pay to their functioning schools. HOWEVER, THREE FOURTHS of the PUBLIC school money will be WHISKED away. MATH. BASIC.
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This is BASIC MATH, not calculus. Say Broward County has $100. to support the Public School system. Now, they have to SHARE that money with RELIGIOUS schools, PRIVATE schools, and HOME schools. Those schools are already functioning with the financial support of wealthy parents, grandparents, religious organizations etc. The public money will supplement their budget. HOWEVER, the PUBLIC schools, (where teachers are already purchasing needed supplies from their own funds), will LOSE three fourths of their bare bones funds. Math, people. Basic MATH!!!
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The money should follow the student.
There. Fixed if for you.
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Thank you. The problem, as we’ve seen with the Charter Schools, at the 60 day deadline, ( it may be 15 days more or less, either way), when the funds are allocated, many of the schools “discharge” students for a myriad of reasons. The students go back to Public Schools. The money stays with the Private Schools. AND, the standards required at the Public Schools are NOT all required at the “alternate” schools.
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The money is reallocated each year. If a student leaves in the middle of a school year, it’s a loss to the school. However, in each new budget year beginning Oct. 1st, everything, it gets allocated again.
Your expectation of “the standards required at the Public Schools” are not as high as you want to believe. If that were the case, parents would not be pulling them out and placing them in private schools or even home schooling their kids. Public schools are not what they used to be when I was a child, or even when my own kids went. My last one graduated in 2010, and things started changing right around that time. When public schools lower expectations and only teach to the common lowest denominator, everyone loses.
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**I meant “lowest common denominator” not “common lowest.” Sorry for the brain fog. It’s been a long day.
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