The only good thing that can be said about the Florida Legislature and its special session on the budget crunch will come at next Friday's scheduled adjournment: "Good riddance."AC = -->
We've already addressed the lack of leadership for this important session. Already in the session's first four days, what leadership there has been has been in the wrong direction.
On Monday, legislators decided to cut more than $600 million in state support for public schools. On Tuesday, budget committees moved the bills along. About $467 million would be cut from the kindergarten-through-12th-grade programs. Another $113 million would come from public universities; an additional $6.5 million from private ones.
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