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Florida House budget wants public employees to delay retirement
This one’s an odd cut-your-nose-to-spite-your-face maneuver: the budget that the Florida House passed yesterday cuts health subsidies to retirees because legislative leaders are desperate to balance the budget without raising taxes, but the House budget maintains complete state support of premiums for about 27,000 state employees, including state legislators. (Disclosure: I’m not among those who get […]
Hilda Turner and why teachers are skeptical of John Thrasher’s motives
In Tampa, there is a five-year-old elementary school named after the late Hilda Turner. The students attending Turner Elementary may not know why it’s named after her, or who she was. Most legislators in the capitol probably don’t know about her case against the all-white Hillsborough school board in the early 1940s and why the […]
Race to the Top winners and losers
So officially, Delaware and Tennessee won (note, Andy Smarick: I spelled both states and your name correctly). But in the side competition (including brackets and sidebar bets), who won and lost? Those who predicted political decision-making were wrong. I know Mike Petrilli has wondered if politics has intervened in the reviewing process (and thought the […]
In #1b1t lies a proof of concept for microblogging for group annotation
Wired.com writer Jeff Howe has proposed a giant Twitter-wide reading experiment he’s calling One Book, One Twitter, where everyone on Twitter (or a great big gob of people) read and tweet about the passages they’re currently on. The topics code #1b1t (an example of a “hashtag”) is Howe’s proposal, and you can follow the latest […]
Florida House committee chair calls security?
Wow: Florida House PreK-12 policy committee chair Rep. Anitere Flores apparently threatened to call in security when a Democratic representative complained that his amendments were not being heard or voted on, and at the end of the committee a group of Capitol security guards stood at the front of the room, between the audience/witnesses and […]