Power to the People - Only Sometimes

For the past four years, former Gov. Jeb Bush and Republicans in the Legislature have tried every trick in the book to stall, block and repeal the constitutional amendment to reduce class size that Florida families voted into law in 2002 and overwhelmingly support to this day.

Luckily, Democrats stopped the devious efforts each time. Last year, to fight Jeb's last-ditch attempt, the Florida Democratic Party led a letter-writing and petition campaign to convince Republicans to vote against the repeal.

It worked, but now the GOP is at it again.

On a party line vote, a House committee passed a "revision" to the law, with one leading Republican claiming that class size reduction is "insane."

Despite Gov. Charlie Crist's soft support for class size reduction ("I like what the people passed," he said...) and his calls for bipartisanship, some Republicans want to beat the legislative dead horse.

Stay tuned, again.