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Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

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The Blog for Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Voucher Madness

    This is getting ridiculous:
    Buried in what might eventually total $200 billion in federal spending for Hurricane Katrina is $488 million for what would be the nation's largest school voucher program.
    "Jeb!" weighs in:
    Both Gov. Bush and his education commissioner, John Winn, said they had not been in contact with the White House or the federal education officials regarding the Katrina vouchers. But Bush said he thought they were a good idea and again defended the use of vouchers in Florida.

    "They work great," he said.
    As usual, he's wrong:
    In a series of articles, The Palm Beach Post has showed how the lack of oversight in Bush's programs has allowed home school "consultants" to receive vouchers, how an Ocala correspondence school operator with a checkered business past had set himself up as a voucher distributor and how a school founded by an accused terrorist received vouchers.

    An investigation based on the articles by Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher led to arrests in both the Ocala case as well as a Christian school in Bartow. His audit of the programs also found that there were virtually no financial or academic yardsticks to measure the programs' effectiveness.
    "Katrina aid may include millions for school vouchers".

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