Bravo!
The 1998 citizen-ratified constitutional amendment is another example of why voters at the polling place have no business enacting statutes or constitutional amendments. When acting en masse, the people are insufficiently deliberative and demonstrably "feel" rather than think. Direct democracy stinks.
Agreed. The constitutional amendment process here in Florida has become the tool of the left to override the legislative process and get by amendment what they could never get by properly written law. This is not to say that the legislators are doing their job.
Just so we're clear about the underlying issue. The left, as always, is trying to mandate equality of outcomes. It has weaponized the lie that all differences in group outcomes are the result of discrimination, overt or (often) subtle and even unintended. It also continues to insist that all such differences can be eradicated if enough money is thrown at the problem. People on the receiving end of this money, i.e. the race hustlers and the educationist blob, can be counted upon to support this approach.
Since there are many reasons for differences in group outcomes, many of which are neither the result of discrimination nor amenable to public policy interventions, the left is demanding an impossibility. This is intentional, though it is important not to acknowledge the impossibility, because the real goal is to transfer power to activist groups and the courts. Unfortunately, it is not possible for any candidate to speak honestly about black academic underachievement and hope to win major office.
If I were running for office, I would take the position that we must stop categorizing people by race and start treating everyone as an individual, period. We should begin by refusing to collect data on racial metrics. Just stop. Go color blind. No exceptions. If we want to create compensatory mechanisms to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds, fine. And as a practical matter, that would be in substantial part a proxy for race. But bottom line: get the would-be dictators with pigment meters out of the schools, institute full school choice to empower parents, celebrate excellence, and let the chips fall where they may, on an entirely color-blind basis.
A perfect solution? No. But since it's not possible to speak honestly about race, it's probably the best we can do.
Gotta remember that name so I can vote against her when she is up for reelection (never happens, though. They always get reelected)...
This was passed prior to the FL change to the Constitution of 2006 which required ALL proposed amendments to the FL Constitution require 60% for passage.
The Left hates this and has been trying since to repeal the 60% rule.
A stunningly good decision from a court that can be kangarooesque. Thank God above the communist Gollum lost to DeSantis.
Tell me about it. Constitutional amendment through ballot initiative, largely funded by New York and Kalifornia billionaires, has done a lot to screw up Colorado.