A group of seven committee members will lead the Board of Governors' search for a new university system chancellor for Florida after Frank Brogan announced he was stepping down from the position and taking his talents to Pennsylvania, where he will serve in a similar position.

Former U.S. Rep. Allen West, who served in the U.S. Army for more than two decades and on the Armed Services Committee during his term in Congress, weighed in on the Washington Naval Yard shootings on Monday. West insisted a preliminary analysis indicates this was a targeted attack against U.S. Navy Sea Systems Command a planned assault. A favorite of the tea party movement, West has opened the door to a political comeback in 2016.

The State Board of Education will meet in West Palm Beach on Tuesday, and one of the items on their agenda is approving the next steps to appoint a new commissioner of education.

Pam Stewart has been filling in as interim commissioner of education since Tony Bennett resigned from the position in August after reports surfaced that he had changed the grades of a charter school in Indiana.