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The big story: Close to 3 million Floridians entered a higher education degree or certificate program, but for some reason never completed it. Seeing the economic value in having them finish, the state of Florida invested millions of dollars into a counseling and scholarship program to assist these students. In 2020, Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed the budget item, all but killing the initiative. . ....
The big story: Florida’s “recess moms” are back to lobbying. They wish they didn’t have to be. But a proposal in the state Senate calls for changes to the physical education law that the parents fear would undo their 2017 effort to get 20 minutes of daily recess mandated in public elementary schools. Rather than waiting for the concept to get too far along, the moms are lobbying to kill it . ....