Pruitt: Do you want an unelected board setting tuition?

March 04th, 2008 | Category: Florida Education Blog

Sen. Ken Pruitt used his opening address of the 2008 legislative session to produce clear that one of his priorities is getting to voters a proposed constitutional amendment that resurrects the elected education commissioner and strips the 6-year-old Board of Governors of most of its university oversight powers.

“We will address the deficiencies in the constitutional amendment passed in 2002,” Pruitt said, referring to

the amendment that created the BOG. He said it losed out to address “what was perhaps the most urgent question,” which is who sets tuition?

“We are going to leave it to voters,” he said. “Do they want an unelected board to set tuition? Or do they want their elected legislators to set it?”

Original post by Shannon Colavecchio-Van Sickler

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.