April 11, 2008 11:40AM 

# Florida Teachers vs. Poor Parents 

By [Andrew J. Coulson](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-coulson) 

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As I [blogged](https://www.cato.org/2008/03/26/union-may-sue-if-too-many-floridians-demand-school-choice/) a couple of weeks ago, Florida’s largest public school employee union, the Florida Education Association, is threatening a lawsuit to kill that state’s scholarship program for poor kids. Why would they choose to go down this road, mined as it obviously is with the potential for bad publicity?

I explain that today in an [*Orlando Sentinel* op-ed](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/views/orl-poorkids0908apr11,0,5178814.story), giving the FEA a little of the bad publicity it so richly deserves in the process.

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[Education](https://www.cato.org/education), [Center for Educational Freedom](https://www.cato.org/center-educational-freedom) 

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