Reno is an elderly woman who likes to wear flannel shirts. So maybe Reno has the Lawton Chiles voters locked up already. Also, Reno has a proven track record of incineration. Since Florida has the death penalty by electric chair, her experience in frying accused criminals may play well with the voters. As Bill Clinton often remarked, the past is not at all relevant to right now, when there are big problems to solve.
Public schools fail precisely because they are public.
Lacking the discipline of profit and loss, which drives failing businesses out of business, the public schools stay open despite failing to do their only job - teach children. The public schools, being public, are also controlled by politicians - state congressmen and local school board members. Because of this, public schools do what their political masters want, and not what parents want or children need. Of course not. Of course, nothing cataclysmic.