I think our voters have made it clear. Unless someone can demonstrate to me that having larger class sizes is better than having smaller class sizes, I'm not going to support it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.
Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.
My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.
There will be no more one-size-fits-all. Education will respond to you.
What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive. But a lot of our K-12 is a disaster. And the single most important reform would just be to fire the worst ten or 15 percent of teachers in the lot, and we would have massive improvements.
We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.