Gov. Charlie Crist's promise to boost money for Florida's schools has been shattered by the state's worsening economy.
New forecasts show that the values of homes, businesses and condos continue to slide dramatically, especially in Southwest Florida.
And with the slide in real estate values comes less money in property taxes for school districts - as much as $1 billion less.
That all but wipes out Crist's pledge to spend $183 more on each student next year.
And it is one more sign that Crist's optimistic budget is crashing against economic realities, rendering his proposed $66.5 billion spending plan irrelevant to the GOP-controlled Legislature.
My response:
I just refuse to give in to the doom and gloom. We'll be ok. Most of the stuff we spend money on is stupid anyway. The first thing we need to cut are those ignorant teachers who can't string a decent sentence together but have the nerve to try to teach English. Get rid of low performing teachers and pay high performing teachers better. Then tell these Teacher Unions to kick rocks.
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