A proposed ballot amendment to ease Florida’s class-size requirements was challenged in court Wednesday by the state’s largest teachers union, but the judge made no decision.
The Florida Education Association argued the summary that will appear on the November ballot doesn’t fully explain Amendment 8’s effect. It tells voters that the class-size caps will change, the union’s lawyer said, but it doesn’t explain how that change likely will reduce money to schools.
“That change inescapably changes the funding,” said Ron Meyer, a lawyer for the union.
“The voter doesn’t see that. The voter doesn’t know that. The voter shouldn’t guess at that.”
A lawyer for the state attorney general’s office, which is defending the amendment, said it is clear to voters that the new caps would save money.