As states across the country move toward a systemic revamping of their educational assessment programs, it is a good time to evaluate how states use learning assessments and whether they can be better transformed as teaching/learning tools.
In a vote that fell completely along party lines, Floridas Joint Legislative Budget Commission approved on Wednesday a proposal by the Department of Corrections (DOC) to privatize health services in the states prisons.
Of the 10 members of the Commission who were present at the meeting, all six Republicans voted to support the measure, while the remaining Democrats voted against it, after about 45 minutes of hearings and debate. Sen. Nan Rich, D-Weston, and Rep. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, led the charge against the DOCs proposals.
Sept. 11, 2012, seemed like it was going to be another solemn day to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
For the first time in years, state legislators arent looking down the barrel of a potential financial shortfall when they arrive in Tallahassee for the next session.
But even with the prospects of $70 million more in revenue next year than is expected to fuel the current years $70 billion budget, the fiscal outlook isnt all roses and rainbows.
Still, the gradual, slow-but-steady growth is better than at least the prior six years, state economists said.
At approximately 1:32 p.m., a majority of members of theFlorida Joint Legislative Budget Commission voted to approve privatization of health services in three-fourths of the state's prisons. The vote fell along party lines, with Democratic Sens. Nan Rich and Gary Siplin and Democratic Reps. Charles Chestnut and Darryl Rouson voting against it. The six Republican participants at the meeting voted for it.
Spokeswoman Ann Howard of the Department of Corrections immediately issued a statement praising the decision:
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A super-PAC backing the Senate run of U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, has started to run a TV ad across Central Florida.
The Freedom PAC spot called Proud, expected to air for about two weeks and with the ad buy in six figures, focuses strictly on Mack and his words.
Macks long-serving opponent, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Orlando, isnt mentioned in the ad.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has closed its investigation, without filing charges, against U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, the congressmans attorney has announced.
As we stated from the beginning, any fair-minded inquiry into these allegations would establish that Congressman Buchanan never engaged in wrongdoing, Robert Luskin, an attorney withPatton Boggs, stated in a release.
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