Today on Context Florida:
In light of Gov. Rick Scott banning use of the phrases “climate change” and “global warming” by Department of Environmental Protection staff, Daniel Tilson offers a “Top Ten” list of terms not to use in any form if working for the governor. Terms include “Affordable Care Act” (should be…“Obamacare” or “Socialist health care law”), “Voter suppression” (should be …“Fighting voter fraud” or “Election integrity”), “Bad jobs” (should be…“New opportunities” or “Let’s keep working”) and “Middle-class stagnation” (should be “Economic growth” or “Obama’s failure”).
Sal Nuzzo has often heard the saying that “those who refuse to study history are destined to repeat it.” What about those who refuse to examine the present, he asks. The director of the Children and Adults Health Programs in the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) at CMS revealed what those of us in the world of the rational and sane already know – that the federal government can’t be relied upon.
Only two months into the New Year and Eric Eikenberg notes that already the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has started to release polluted water from Lake Okeechobee, resulting in water flowing into the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers, and the Indian River Lagoon. The release should continue over the coming weeks and months.
Jac VerSteeg says high-tech, high-stakes tests creates pressures and procedures for high-tech cheating. While the biggest cheating scandals so far have involved school officials manipulating data, new opportunities for individual students to cheat might be emerging.
