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		<title>Kathy Castor tells Hillsborough School Board she believes HB 7069 runs contrary to federal law</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some of the biggest school districts in Florida, including Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Volusia and Orange counties, have filed legal challenges to House Bill 7069, the controversial education legislation that critics say will undermine local control of schools and expand the charter school system. Hillsborough County is not one of them, but it may be more inspired to after receiving a letter from U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, whobelieves the law runs afoul of federal law, specifically Title I provisions of the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bill Rufty: Polk GOP endorses in nonpartisan race</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Rufty]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Polk County Republican Executive Committee endorsed incumbent Polk County School Board member Hunt Berryman for re-election. Berryman is a registered Republican voter. The school board is supposedly a nonpartisan office. Don’t tell that to the thousands of Republican insiders across the nation who are supporting the concept of “total majority,” which means endorsement and election of registered Republicans no matter if the office is nonpartisan. Berryman came in second in the Aug. 30 election. As was the case with&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bill Rufty: Polk becoming a two-Party county?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Polk County will likely never return to the Democratic bastion that was home to four U.S. senators, three governors, and four presidents of the Florida Senate. But from Tuesday’s primaries and the fielding of candidates for the Nov. 8 general elections, Polk Democrats are slowly learning to make the now-GOP bastion a two-party county again. There was a big Democratic Primary in eastern Polk County for Florida’s 9th Congressional District, but not one of the four candidates were from Polk. However,&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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