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By Brian Mudd
Top Three Takeaways – March 3rd, 2021
The news just keeps getting better. For Florida that is. Fresh off of Florida’s lowest day for reported COVID-19 cases since last June, and our best trend in over three months, came governor DeSantis’s state of the state speech opening the 2021 legislative session. The governor touched on many themes we’ve recently discussed on the show including Florida having fewer cases of COVID per capita, fewer deaths per capita, fewer restrictions than most states leading to a lower unemployment rate, better than average economy and yes – even our education system suddenly becoming a top performer. All great news but all news we already knew. But that’s where DeSantis added some breaking news and it’s huge heading into this year’s session. He said the state’s unemployment rate, already well lower than the national average – has been overstated and will be revised down. Related, he said revenue produced to the state of F
In addition to there actually being March Madness which will take place this year – simply already being into the month of March feels like its own kind of non-basketball related craziness.
By Brian Mudd
Top Three Takeaways – February 26th, 2021
Success to Significance. One of my all-time favorite radio execs, who is now retired, had what he called his “Keys”. One of those keys sticks with me daily. Success to significance. He was ahead of his time really. Even before the conversations regarding participation ribbons took hold, he pushed us to raise our bar on expectations and that real success is success that’s significant. In recent years in Florida, we’ve made meaningful improvements in education outcomes, most notably with the graduation rate which has risen from an abysmal 58.8% in 2006 to 90% last year. While in its own way that improvement can be deemed significant – I ve still been leery regarding education outcomes. Are Florida’s students really learning more or are we simply graduating more? That’s been a question I’ve not had clear cut answers to previously. On one hand Florida’s advanced from 45th in K-12 outcomes to 18th nationally.