The League of Women Voters of Florida is out with a report casting the state’s largest tax credit scholarship agency as a money management/marketing firm operating as a charity.” The League is also blasting a legislative effort to consolidate Florida’s multiple school choice programs.
The voting rights organization says a plan to transition the programs into education savings accounts is a bad idea, while Step Up for Students says the league’s claims are based on misleading, and outdated information.
“The League is very concerned about the expansion of the voucher program with no accountability, no standards and no transparency. Basically, what the legislature has been doing over the past 20 years is to create a parallel school system without little oversight from the public, said League of Women Voters, Tallahassee Chapter President Sally Butzin. She sits on the League s education committee and authored its report on Step Up For Students.
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After sugar’s $11 million investment, a bipartisan push to protect industry By Mary Ellen Klas, Miami Herald
Published: April 4, 2021, 6:02am
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2 Photos A Rosenwald Elementary School teacher took this undated photo of a sugar cane field burn on a school day just outside the fence surrounding the school grounds in South Bay. (Courtesy to the Miami Herald/TNS) Photo Gallery
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – If the aroma of organic fertilizer repeatedly wafts into your yard from a nearby working farm and you try to sue to stop it, it’s likely to be considered a nuisance lawsuit and you’ll be barred by law under Florida’s “Right to Farm Act.”
State, county and city workers and retirees are mounting a full-scale lobbying effort to block a Florida Senate proposal they say will bankrupt the pension fund in the Florida Retirement System (FRS).
The bill (SB 84) would prohibit most new hires from joining the traditional state pension plan and instead steer them into a private investment vehicle, like a 401(k) plan, subject to swings in the stock market. It could be heard on the Senate floor as early as Wednesday.
“The people making these decisions fundamentally do not understand how pensions work, AFL-CIO spokesman Rich Templin said. And the actions they are taking will prove disastrous.
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