By RYAN DAILEY, NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA, Nov 18, 2022. TALLAHASSEE — Florida had 5,077 incidents of students being involuntarily committed under a mental-health law known as the Baker Act during the past school year, data presented Wednesday to a school-safety commission showed. The Baker Act is a roughly 50-year-old state law that allows courts,
By DANIELLE J. BROWN, Florida Phoenix, Nov 1, 2022. The University of Florida’s Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to approve Nebraska’s U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse as the new president to lead Florida’s flagship institution, despite weeks of outcry, questions about the senator’s political views, and an air of secrecy around the search process that led to
He can try to paint a different picture, but Ron DeSantis has done nothing to address a critical teachers shortage – instead, he has injected divisive culture wars and chaos into our children’s classrooms and has threatened to defund school districts whose leaders disagree with him. Here’s the reality of education in Florida under Ron DeSantis: DeSantis
Editor’s comment: Wow, this reminds me how we got the quack Dr. Joe Ladapo to come to Florida as our Surgeon General, spouting all kinds of nonsense about Covid and vaccines. I sense DeSantis’ presence and influence all over this solo-finalist selection! From The Gainesville Sun, Oct 10, 2022. Ben Sasse, the Republican U.S. senator
By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Sept. 10, 2022. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. Fights about free speech can feel rhetorical until they are not. Here’s what censorship looks like in practice:
By FRANK DIFIORE, Staff Writer, The Daily Sun, Sept 14, 2022. Karla Hernandez-Mats poses for a photo with supporters after the press conference (SUN PHOTO BY FRANK DIFIORE). SARASOTA — The Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday for making common cause with the Proud Boys in school board elections. Karla Hernandez-Mats,
By Jamelle Bouie, NY Times Opinion Columnist, Aug 27, 2022 The Republican response to President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program is to try to turn the issue into a culture war. “Democrats’ student loan socialism is a slap in the face to working Americans who sacrificed to pay their debt or made different career choices to
Perspective by Diane Roberts, The Washington Post, August 18, 2022 at 1:29 p.m. EDT Diane Roberts is a journalist and professor of English at Florida State University. Her most recent book is “Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America.” For professors, the advent of the fall semester means nailing down the course syllabus as
The following editorial was published in The Daily Sun on Aug 11, 2022. OUR POSITION: A nationwide report that examines the well-being of children in each state indicates Florida has plenty of work to do. The kids are not all right. That’s how we would surmise statistics accumulated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation for
By Lori Rozsa, The Washington Post, July 30, 2022. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Miami-Dade County school board couldn’t make up its mind. It has voted three times in four months on whether students can use a particular textbook, “Comprehensive Health Skills,” for sex education classes. The board for the state’s largest district signed off
By Carrie Seidman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 29, 2022. Monitoring the news from afar during my unanticipated but compulsory month-long sabbatical from Florida* allowed me an outsider’s perspective on the state of our state. Even from a distance it was impossible not to feel stunned by the escalating attack on public education as we move toward
The following Editorial was published in The Daily Sun on July 22, 2022. This is a non-partisan race that is open to all voters in the August 23rd primary. The winner of the primary will assume the seat. Remember to VOTE! Voters have two distinct choices in who will fill the District 4 seat on
The following editorial was published in The Daily Sun on June 12, 2022. OUR POSITION: We can’t afford to lose teachers to today’s demands and challenges that go far beyond the classroom. Never in the history of our nation have teachers come under the scrutiny they face now, nor have they faced the current dangers
Editor’s note: Charlotte Dems associate member Jim Hussey addressed the School Board of Charlotte County at its regular public monthly meeting on June 6, 2022. He responded to negative comments made at the May meeting by a Port Charlotte resident, which led to the resignation of teacher Deven Seibert. The School Board consists of five
Editor’s note: Dems need to support our teachers and School Board members by attending these public meetings and refuting positions made by certain members of the public. We also need to identify and support a centrist candidate to succeed Ian Vincent on the Board. He has decided to not retain this position. By Nancy J.
Miami, FL — After Ron DeSantis banned 40% of proposed math textbooks in Florida, reports indicate that the only publisher that has been approved to offer K-5 math books in Florida schools is owned by the Carlyle Group, a hedge fund with deep ties to the Republican Governor of Virginia. Billy Epting, assistant superintendent for academic
BY ANA CEBALLOS. HERALD/TIMES TALLAHASSEE BUREAU, APRIL 15, 2022 The Florida Department of Education on Friday said the state will not include dozens of math textbooks in a list used by school districts to buy books for classrooms because their content included references to critical race theory and other “prohibited topics” and “unsolicited strategies.” The
By Jamelle Bouie, New York Times Opinion Columnist, Feb. 18, 2022. There is a dangerous censoriousness pulsing through American society. In small towns and big cities alike, would-be commissars are fighting, in the name of a distinct minority of Americans, to stifle open discussion and impose their views on the community at large. Dissenters, when they
By NANCY J. SEMON, The Daily Sun Staff Writer, Feb 14, 2022. PORT CHARLOTTE — Mental health issues and homelessness among students are increasing in Charlotte County, school officials said last week. During a Charlotte County School Board workshop, a school psychologist and the director of intervention and drop-out prevention told board members about steps the
By Tim Craig and Lori Rozsa, The Washington Post, Feb 7, 2022. MIAMI — The school system in Florida’s most populous county includes students whose families moved here from 160 nations. Its expansive cultural mix is represented in the district’s curriculum, which includes not only American history, but also the stories of violent government upheavals, such as the revolution
Do you know or are you a young female Democrat who will be graduating from a Charlotte County public high school in 2022? If so, application packets for the Democratic Women’s Club (DWC) of Charlotte County’s Betty Gissendanner Memorial Scholarships are now available at your high school. Completed applications are due by March 1, 2022.
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