Florida Education is Broken...so just ignore it and build something new

That seems to be the mentality of Charlie Crist and the Florida Republicans. Florida's public education is one of the worst in the country and the best solution the Republican-run legislature can muster is to spend more tax dollars on McKay Scholarships to send some kids to private schools since the public school they're zoned for and previously attending is crap. Under this theory, a small portion of kids are able to go to "better" private schools on the tax payer's dime, while the problems of public schools are ignored and the majority of kids are stuck with mediocre educations. Instead of spending the money to fix the education system which services the majority of Florida children, Crist would rather let a few students attend the private school of their choice...oh yah, and those private schools have no oversight from the State and don't require FCAT testing so who really knows how good of an education they're providing in return for our tax dollars.
The one smart move Crist made this year (aside from getting the hell out of the Republican party) is to veto Senate Bill 6. This lovely bill would have tied half of teacher's pay to student test scores and new teachers would be hired with no chance of tenure. Don't get me wrong, I think ineffective teachers should certainly be given the boot, but more reliance on a ridiculous standardized test is not the way to accomplish that goal. The teachers at schools that currently under perform (almost always those in the low income areas) already have a hard enough time working with students who may not receive 3 meals a day and who have little parental involvement in education. So your pay as a teacher would primarily depend on whether you were lucky enough to get a position at a good school.
It seems like Florida's solution to its education problems is to find scapegoats and avoid the fixing the real problems. I suppose Florida Republicans don't care if Florida's public schools are abysmal because their kids go to private schools, and thanks to Crist and McKay Scholarship funding they may not even have to pay as much for that privilege.