It also moves to limit standardized testing of students in an attempt to answer widespread complaints about the practice and would allow districts to ignore a convoluted and controversial state formula based on those tests when doing teacher evaluations.
Even some lawmakers who reluctantly pushed for the education bill to be approved as a way to appease Corcoran and end the legislative session suggested, not necessarily unfavorably, that a veto from Scott was a real possibility.
“In this case, in my opinion, and my personal choice, is going to be to let him do that — that we’ll do what we agreed to do and pass a conference package of all the bills that we have in conference, and then we’ll pass it down and let him do his job,” said Senate Appropriations Chairman Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater.
Corcoran, perhaps unsurprisingly, said Scott should accept all of the budget-related bills that passed the Legislature.
“If I were governor, I wouldn’t veto any of them, no,” said Corcoran, considering a run for Scott’s office in 2018. “They’re not good policy, they’re great policy.”
