We care about our kids and we want to improve their education. As parents and teachers, you are in the real world. We all realize there's no shortage of ideas about what should be done to strengthen our kids' schools. There are some folks who say we have to address every problem facing our schools at once. I'm not of that school.
Crowded classrooms are the biggest immediate issue our schools face.
When our kids return to class next month, they will go to school in a state with the largest elementary schools and the second largest secondary schools in the country. That's like adding a school district the size of Brevard County every year. The rate of growth for the past nine years is triple the rate for the previous nine-year period. In 1986-87, state PECO funds provided 40 percent of school construction funding. That number has dwindled to 23 percent.