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Education Tap Dance
Posted courtesy of Folio Weekly Last month, Floridians were regaled with education reform plans by the usual suspects. The Governor offered the decidedly underwhelming goal of bringing funding almost back to 2007 levels, the year in which education funding peaked in Florida. The legislature is talking about rolling back the voters’ only failsafe to Jeb... »
Accountability Forum Links Elected Leaders and Community
Members of two community groups had questions, and Jacksonville’s leaders had answers at this year’s first SFPPCA / COPOCA sponsored Local Leadership Accountability Forum. City Council Members Johnny Gaffney, John Crescimbeni, Ray Holt, Glorious Johnson, Reginald Brown, Warren Jones and Clay Yarborough were on hand, along with Jerry Holland, Matt Shirk, Angela Corey, John... »
Revisionist Thinking
(Reprinted with permission from Folio Weekly) Sparks flew at the Dec. 17 Charter Revision Commission meeting when Duval County School Board Member Tommy Hazouri leaked the results of a mayoral campaign poll: 84 percent of Jacksonville voters oppose replacing their elected school board with an appointed one. When Hazouri implied that further discussion of the matter... »
“Hope Fund” for Public Schools?
Lone Star Elementary Principal Elizabeth Kavanaugh and Arlington’s East Point Church members are to be commended for pooling the church’s resources—volunteer work hours—to clean up the school over the holiday break. Churches and volunteers around the community have generously stepped up to the plate, the Times Union reported recently, to tutor, mentor, clean... »
