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State lawmakers are proposing the state return to an elected Education Commissioner. The post was abolished in 2002, when our current governor held the post.  Senate leaders are pushing the change. Budget Chairwoman Lisa Carlton of Sarasota sites the class size amendment and the Pre K amendment as evidence that people in Florida want to vote on education issues.

“These are issues that are of paramount importance to the citizens of Florida. It seems to logically flow from that,  that the person that heads up the education system in the state, Pre-K all the way streamlined through 20, should be an elected official, directly appointed by the people, ” says Carlton.

Currently, the Education Commission is appointed by the state board of education, which is itself appointed by the Governor.