Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott said today that race was one of the reasons to support local control of schools.
“If you’re 70 percent African-American, you’re going to deal with different issues,” Scott said.
“Yes, you are,” said Sean O’Flannery, a high school teacher from Pinellas Park.
O’Flannery, who met Scott at a Clearwater campaign stop, had raised the issue of Senate Bill 6, the controversial teacher tenure bill Scott and other Republicans supported. Opponents said the bill would take local control away from schools and centralize more power in Tallahassee.
We asked Scott to clarify his thoughts: “Every school has different issues. And so we have to make sure that whatever programs we put in place to measure teachers that its fair in that area. Beacause every school is different. And every community is a little bit different. So that’s what that focus was on.”
Scott is starting the third day of his six-day trip.
Posted By: Siebra Muhammad
Friday, July 23rd 2010 at 2:54PM
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