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Per-Student Funding Dropping $572, or 8%; Flagler District Poised for Severe Cuts

May 9, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

As state lawmakers cut school budgets by $1.3 billion, the Flagler school district already has plans to cut its budget by 3.5 percent through teacher layoffs and other means. It’ll make up the difference by using more than a third of its $9 million reserves.

2011 Session Under GOP Supermajority: Stingier, Looser, More Preferential Florida

May 8, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

He has reasons to applaud: Florida Gov. Rick Scott with Attorney General Pam Bondi and House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, right, celebate unanimous approval of pill-mill legislation in the House late Friday, May 6. (Meredith Geddings)

The 2011 Session revamped Medicaid, teacher pay and pill-mill regulations, cut the budget and brooked favors with insurers, but culminated in corrosive revolts among Republicans as anti-union and anti-immigration bills failed.

Corporate Tax Cut Out, Privatizing Prisons and 3% Public Pension Contributions In

May 1, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

As the Legislature’s 2011 session veers uncertainly toward its final days, lawmakers struck deals Saturday on privatizing prisons and compromising over public employees’ pension contributions, but no deal yet on health care and education cuts.

School Districts Will Have to Vastly Expand Virtual Education; Charters to Click In

April 27, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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At least one virtual class would be mandatory for graduation, kindergarten students could take online courses, and charter schools could offer full or part-time classes in what’s almost certain to become law.

Gun-Toting Bills, Supplanting Doctors and Local Governments, Poised to Become Law

April 26, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

One bill would penalize local governments with stricter gun restrictions than the state. Another would muzzle doctors’ abilities to ask their patients about gun ownership.

How Slashing Water Management Districts’ Budget 25% Endangers Our Way of Life

April 16, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Allan Milledge, a former water management district chairman, asks: Do you want to jeopardize protection of our rivers, lakes, springs, and wetlands and the protection of our water supply to save an average less than $20 dollars per household per year?

Barack Obama and Rick Scott In Florida Voters’ Eyes: From Lousy to Dismal

April 10, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The latest poll has Obama’s approval at just 44 percent, and Scott’s at 35 percent, with Scott’s disapproval rating doubling in two months, and 60 percent of Floridians saying Florida is on the wrong path. The poll reveals widespread dissatisfaction.

Public Money for Private Schools: Voucher Programs Set to Expand Across Florida

April 9, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Several bills with enough support in the Florida Legislature would expand student eligibility for voucher programs, including making it easier for corporations to write off taxes in exchange for providing voucher money.

Conklin Calls on Flagler School Board to Sue Scott and Legislature Over Education Funding

April 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 52 Comments

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Flagler County School Board member Colleen Conklin says the state has abdicated its constitutional responsibility to properly fund education, and wants the board to sue the state. The board will discuss the matter on April 19.

Flagler Commissioners Endorse SunRail As Gov. Scott Prepares to Derail Commuter Line

April 4, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Henry Flagler's legacy to Flagler County and Florida is parked, for now. Rick Scott wants to ensure that it remains so.

SunRail would have connected DeBary and Tampa as a commuter rail line, which the Legislature approved in December 2009. Gov. Rick Scott is likely to kill the project by summer, ending Central Florida’s brief flirtation with alternative transportation.

Merit Pay’s Trap: When Lawmakers Are Clueless About Teachers’ Classroom Realities

April 1, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Jo Ann C. Nahirny, a teacher at Matanzas High School, describes the gulf between merit pay assumptions about teachers and everyday classroom realities that are beyond teachers’ control. Lawmakers appear clueless.

Gov. Scott Vows to End “Oxycontin Express,” Yet Legislature Weakens Pill Mill Regulations

March 29, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

When it comes to pill mills and drugs such as Oxycontin and Oxycodone, it's not yet clear, in Florida, who has what, or whom, in a vise. (© Steve Gray)

Gov. Rick Scott gave no details on his assault on the “Oxycontin Express,” and a Senate committee approved eliminating a ban on doctors dispensing more than a three-day supply of drugs to patients who pay with cash or credit cards.

From Teacher Merit Pay to Charter School Expansion: Legislature Marches On

March 28, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Old school: the Florida Legislature is demolishing education as the state knew it. Charter schools and merit pay.

Like the swiftly-approved teacher merit pay reforms, the push to expand charter schools, including expanding preferential admittance, has the strong backing of Gov. Rick Scott, and continues to revamp education.

Gov. Scott Orders Florida’s 33 Public Hospitals Reviewed for Possible Privatization

March 24, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

As the former CEO of a private hospital chain, Scott was opposed to publicly-run hospitals, which he considers to have an unfair competitive advantage over the privately run sort. The commission is a first step toward privatization.

How Grim Are State School Spending Cuts? Try 7 to 10% Per Student, Layoffs to Follow

March 23, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Florida House and Senate proposals would cut from $447 to $473 per student, or close to 7 percent, a little less than Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to slash per-student spending by $680 in addition to recent reductions.

Rick Scott Orders State Employees Randomly Drug-Tested Often, Like Welfare Recipients

March 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Gov. Rick Scott signed an executive order requiring drug testing, and compared the testing of employees to the drug-testing of welfare recipients, a proposals lawmakers also approved unanimously in a Senate committee Tuesday.

Florida’s Deficit Grows by $135 Million, To $3.75 Billion, As Growth Remains Anemic

March 20, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

State revenue forecasters essentially tacked about $135 million dollars onto a budget shortfall that already stood at $3.62 billion, forcing lawmakers to consider deeper cuts as they craft a spending plan for the budget year that begins July 1.

Teacher Tenure Out, Merit Pay In: Legislature Whips First Bill of 2011 to Gov. Scott

March 16, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

The Legislature passed the biggest change to the state’s education system in more than 10 years, sending to Gov. Rick Scott a bill tying teacher salaries to test scores and ending multi-year contracts.

All Business All the Time as Gov. Scott
Tells Lawmakers: “Don’t Blink”

March 9, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Scott mentioned the word “job” or “jobs” 31 times in the 27-minute State of the State speech, lauded privatization, vouchers for private and parochial schools and the needs and virtues of business.

Rally Draws Out Teachers, Supporters and Honks. Lawmakers May Not Be Listening.

March 8, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 43 Comments

Some 150 teachers and other school employees and supporters lined Belle Terre Parkway in Palm Coast, one of dozens such rallies across the state, hours before Gov. Rick Scott rebuffed them by telling lawmakers: “Don’t blink.”

State of the State Tonight: Scott and Legislature’s GOP Keep Their War Civil–So Far

March 8, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Aren't they lovely: Rick Scott congratulates Rep. Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, who'll be the Speaker of the House at the end of the 2012 session. (Mark Foley)

Don’t expect Gov. Rick Scott to deviate much from his frequent message as he delivers his first State of the State speech Tuesday night before a joint session of the Legislature: Budget cuts, tax cuts, potshots at Washington rather than his own dissenting GOP.

Flagler Schools Prepare to ‘Awake the State’ As Night of Long Budget Knives Falls on Florida

March 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

As school employees prepared to demonstrate against massive state budget cuts on Tuesday, the Flagler School Board got closer to proposing cuts of its own that would eliminate classes and up to four dozen teachers.

End of the Line for Rail Brawl As Supreme Court Ruling Sends $2.4 Billion Elsewhere

March 4, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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The Florida Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Gov. Scott could not be bound to spend $2.4 billion in federal high-speed rail money. That money will now go to New York or California.

Governor and Senators’ High-Speed Rail Brawl Crashes a Skeptical Florida Supreme Court

March 3, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

René Magritte's 'Time Transfixed' ('La Durée poignardée'), 1938.

Judging from Justices’ questions, the legislators’ case to force the governor to accept $2.4 billion in federal funding for the bullet train looked slim after Thursday’s arguments before the high court.

Senators Against “King” Scott Face Off at Florida Supreme Court Over High-Speed Rail

March 3, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Set for 3 p.m. Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court showdown over $2.4 billion in federal money underscores the divide between Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican-dominated Legislature ahead of next week’s legislative session.

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