This is probably closely connected to why Florida is in the bottom 25% of states in terms of school quality. The red tape scares away some of the best teachers

This is probably closely connected to why Florida is in the bottom 25% of states in terms of school quality. The red tape scares away some of the best teachers. Of course, I'm not sure any of those rankings compensate for social-economic factors that will skew these factors. What I have heard is that the Florida districts really set back the migrant students who ended up in my Mother in Laws classroom in NJ for part of every year. That might be due to them ending up in some of Florida's worst school districts of course.