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Advocates of elected Education Commissioner launch website to “bug” lawmakers

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A group pushing to get the Commissioner of Education post to back on Florida ballots unleashed a web page Monday that’ll help voters bug every lawmaker in the state. Fund Education Now created the page so Floridians could urge their representative to vote for HB 767, sponsored by Vero Beach Republican Rep. Debbie Mayfield, which would put an initiative to bring back an elected education commissioner on the 2016 ballot. “Florida’s experiment with an appointed Commissioner of Education has robbed…

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Today on Context Florida: Wrong solutions, our American concoction and Donald Trump’s philanthropy

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Today on Context Florida: Legislation calling on Florida to once again elect an education commissioner strikes Martin Dyckman as the wrong solution to a real problem. There are plenty of reasons to be dissatisfied with the state of education in the Sunshine State but none is enough, in his opinion, to enlarge the Cabinet and dilute the responsibility of the governor’s office. In two words, Dyckman gives us one of the reasons against it: Ron Howard. Go ahead, America, says Julie…

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