{"id":2328,"date":"2006-05-08T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/08\/no-the-florida-supreme-court-didnt-say-that\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T19:23:01","slug":"no-the-florida-supreme-court-didnt-say-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"No, The Florida Supreme Court Didn't Say That."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal’s<\/em> op-ed page splinters even further from reality<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…In one of the most absurd legal decisions in modern times, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that the voucher program violated the “uniformity clause” of the state constitution guaranteeing a high-quality system of public schools. Because the performance of the voucher kids was superior <\/em>to those in public schools, the court ruled that education was not uniform — or in this case not uniformly miserable. As they used to say in the Soviet Union, everyone gets to share their poverty equally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(I found this through Protein Wisdom<\/a>, where the above passage is quoted approvingly).<\/p>\n

Whenever a conservative says something unbelievable has occurred, it’s a good idea to do some fact-checking before you say “holy shit!” About a minute of googling turned up the Florida Supreme Court decision in question (pdf file<\/a>). The Florida Constitution mandates that a uniform <\/em>system of public <\/em>schools be provided by the government. Until that passage in the Florida Constitution is amended, the legislature doesn’t have any authority to take money from public schools and give it to private schools, especially when those private schools are free of the constitutionally-required uniform regulations public schools are subject to.<\/p>\n

People can disagree with the Court’s decision. But no honest person can agree with The Wall Street Journal<\/em>‘s claim that the Florida Court’s ruled that educational outcomes must be “uniformly miserable.” Not a word of the Court’s decision referred to different outcomes; the Journal <\/em>op-ed writer made up that ridiculous claim.<\/p>\n

The trouble is, a lie travels around the world twice before the truth even gets its pants on. (Who did I swipe that from?) The right-wing attack on the judiciary doesn’t need to be truthful to be effective.<\/p>\n

Crossposted on Creative Destruction.<\/a> Comments on “Alas” are moderated, so if you’re having trouble getting your post to appear here, use the Creative Destruction link instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal’s op-ed page splinters even further from reality: …In one of the most absurd legal decisions in modern times, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that the voucher program violated the “uniformity clause” of the state constitution … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}