By BILL KACZOR

March 22, 2006

* Class size amendments in both chambers (SJR 1150, HJR 447) include a provision that would require school districts to spend 65 percent of their budgets in the classroom. That's an idea opposed by Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Evelyn Lynn, R-Ormond Beach. "Sixty-five percent has no definition and it has no accountability to it," Lynn said. "We need to have school districts make decisions, and I think they make good decisions."

Source: Associated Press