The Senate just voted 31-6, with Democrats opposed, for a "train bill" of education reforms that Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, created in this final week of the session. But House Republican education leaders' opposition to the last-minute train could result in the proposed reforms collapsing altogether this year.

Gaetz's bill that just passed essentially turns the House version (HB 7045) into one piece of legislation containing four different bills that had been sailing fairly smoothly through the majority-Republican Legislature. The proposals include financial and nepotism standards for charter schools, tougher ethics policies for educators, a more nuanced way of grading high schools, and a $30-million expansion of the corporate income tax scholarship program that sends public school kids into private schools.