Vitti’s troubling links to charter schools.

I have already outlined his trip to the conference whose theme was how we attract more charter schools and how he hired a charter school consultant to work for the district. Well it turns out this charter school consultant once worked for Eric Fresen one of the most ardent anti-public school legislators that Florida has produced over the past few years.

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2013-10-20/story/former-lobbyist-charter-schools-will-lobby-duval-public-schools-next

Eric Fresen has often voted on legislation that would benefit his family members who worked for charter school companies and is also a proponent of high stakes testing. Seemingly everything Fresen has done in Tallahassee has siphoned money out of classrooms and into the bank accounts of testing companies and charter school conglomerates.

http://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2011/03/where-is-money-coming-from.html

http://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2011/07/real-reason-florida-legislature.html

http://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2013/03/florida-legislators-with-charter-school.html

And I could go on and on, type his name into the search box.

My question is why would anybody who supports public schools want to have anything to do with Fresen or anybody associated with him too?  

This is troubling.