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Foundation for Excellence in Education to grade school report cards

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Tallahassee-based education think tank Foundation for Excellence in Education will release a report on the state of school report cards across the nation. Under the monniker ExcelinEd, the report will detail current failings in the realm of school-wide report cards, which the group says parents find cumbersome and inaccessible for most parents seeking to evaluate the inner workings of their children’s school. The report will also unveil the results of an initiative called the “My School Information Design Challenge,” wherein private designers competed to upgrade…

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Paula Dockery joins Florida League of Women Voters board of directors

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Former State Sen. Paula Dockery, who served 16 years in the Florida Legislature, is joining the board of the League of Women Voters of Florida. Term limited from running again for the State Senate in 2012, Dockery has since launched a new career as a political columnist. Her syndicated columns appear in more than 20 newspapers across Florida. “I’ve long admired what the League does for our political process, and I feel that the League stands for many of the things…

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Governor Scott makes 16 regulatory board appointments

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On Wednesday, Gov. Rick Scott announced 16 appointments – including 12 reappointments – to a variety of state regulatory boards. All the following are subject to confirmation by the Florida Senate. Florida Commission on Community Service (Volunteer Florida) Scott announced two appointments and three reappointments to the Florida Commission on Community Service (Volunteer Florida), which strengthens communities through national service and volunteerism. Sarah “Sam” Seevers, 56, of Destin, is owner and editor of Life’s a Beach Publications and the former mayor of…

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Former Jeb Bush health czar has a message for Florida Republicans: Get a waiver

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He advised former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Republican Governors Association. A go-to health care policy wonk for Republicans, Alan Levine now says he has a message for Florida Republicans in the Legislature: Tap into a 1332 innovation waiver under the Affordable Care Act. The waiver allows the state to essentially circumvent the employer mandate, the  individual mandates as well as provisions on exchanges and premium credits. “If the Legislature wants to be bold and offer a conservative solution,…

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House committee will look Monday at moving back Florida’s presidential primary date

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The Florida House’s Rules, Calendar & Ethics Committee is set to consider a proposed committee bill Monday that would move both of the state’s partisan presidential primaries back to the third Tuesday in March, to March 15. The later primary elections — which will coincide with the mythical ides of March when no less a leader than Julius Caesar was felled by former political allies — will prevent Florida from being an early bellwether state like its smaller counterparts in South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa, but…

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Mitch Perry Report for 2.25.15 – Keith Olbermann and the golden age of MSNBC

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Uh oh. He did it again. Keith Olbermann is on paid suspension for the rest of this week, after a few angry tweets to a Penn State supporter got him in some hot water with his ESPN bosses. While the tweeter sent Olbermann a link about the university’s $13 million fundraising for pediatric cancer research, Keith was still apparently thinking about the Jerry Sandusky scandal and responded back, “Pitiful.” He later apologized for a series of negative tweets to the…

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Garrett Richter seeks to limit drone surveillance by Florida law enforcement

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Sen. Garrett Richter of Naples filed a bill Monday to enact restrictions “prohibiting a person, state agency, or political subdivision from using a drone to capture an image of privately owned or occupied real property or of the owner, tenant, or occupant of such property with the intent to conduct surveillance” without their consent, if “a reasonable expectation of privacy exists.” Certainly that language will have to withstand some judicial scrutiny, but it is a step forward in a public policy…

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