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Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 3-5-10 Bilked: another story from South Florida For Florida, A Time for Leadership Lying to Our Kids St. Petersburg Times columnist Howard Troxler, cites my favorite Florida politician, former Gov. Reubin Askew, as evidence of leadership that worked out well for Florida:
A new governor named Reubin Askew — sometimes with the help of the Legislature, and sometimes despite it — led Florida in an unprecedented program of modernization and reform, including: Troxler goes on to bemoan the lack of "leadership" that exists with the current regime in Tallahassee. And goes on to propose a set of ideas that have mostly been embraced by progressives and Democrats: Above all else, fix Florida's tax structure. Get rid of the loopholes and tax breaks — and if you're worried that's a "tax increase," then you should lower the overall rate on everybody else who's been paying all along. The first item, reforming Florida's antiquated and regressive tax structure that harms working families and lets the wealthy get away with quite a bit is correctly put at the top of the list. Progress Florida's "Stop The Cuts" petition effort, which we launched yesterday, is a first step to move momentum for reform out of the think tanks and newspaper columns and into the grassroots. But here's the thing about Troxler's otherwise great column: the regime that occupies Tallahassee believes they are leading. The problem is, as we know, that their reactionary "leadership" has hurt our state immensely for the roughly 12 years the Republicans have controlled the legislature and Governor's mansion. And no, any attempt by the press to do their typical "both sides are at fault" meme is just silly. The Dems haven't been in charge of any house of the legislature since 1996 and the Governor's mansion since 1998. Gerrymandering has kept them out, and the minority party is powerless to do very much. Until there's a change of leadership and focus in Tallahassee, it will be very hard to accomplish much of anything that will benefit working people rather than just special interests who can bundle $500 checks. However, leadership is also required from everyday Floridians, too. We can't just leave it to the politicians to solve our problems. Grassroots oriented, progressive/pro public interest groups will be needed to apply external pressure for progress regardless of who's in power. While I'm obviously biased, I think Progress Florida is a great example of such a group. Others I think also do this well include Worst to First and Fund Education Now, both of which employ organic grassroots strength to tackle major problems Florida faces. Howard Dean is still right: "You have the power." Florida as a whole has seen a increased upwelling in the area of immigration reform lately, mostly in part from youth activists who have had enough of living in the shadows and are mobilizing all across the state to make a push to move the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, otherwise known as the DREAM Act. A federal piece of bi-partisan legislation, the DREAM Act addresses the situation of students across the country who were brought by their parents at a young age, or fell victims to the significantly dysfunctional immigration system currently in place, and became undocumented as a result. If passed, such legislation would deem said students as “conditional” permanent residents which could eventually apply to citizenship, it goes without saying however, that the requirements to qualify are very specific in denoting who qualifies as a ‘DREAM’ student. Read More »Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 1-22-10 The myth of limited government By Peter Schorsch St. Petersblog 2.0 First of all, to the anonymous bloggers who attempted to discredit the good name of one of Tampa's finest families, you should be ashamed of yourselves. More than a decade ago, Jeb Bush fundamentally altered our state's education policy: a single, high stakes standardized test (FCAT) that would act as a universal standard of measurement for schools; taking on the teacher's union; and attempting to start a private school vouchers system.
At the same time, our GOP-dominated legislature kept education funding embarrassingly low compared to other states. They fought Florida voters' attempt to reduce class size by holding back funding needed to implement the class size amendment. Jeb Bush and the legislature's high stakes, low funding education policy naturally produced some crappy results. Today, Florida ranks 43rd in SAT scores, 48th in ACT scores according to the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC.) The LeRoy Collins Institute has shown our dropout rate to be one of the worst. We're 50 out of 50 states and Washington DC in per capita funding in education. And ignore the recent finding by Education Week that we're 8th best in the nation - we're not. Florida's education system has been struggling mightily with Jeb Bush and the GOP's "reforms." So now what are they proposing? A lot more of the same: more FCAT, less funding, more demonization of teachers. The definition of insanity is trying to do the same thing and expecting a different result: The GOP-controlled Legislature - heeding critics that the state needs to graduate students better prepared to compete for jobs - is poised to toughen graduation standards, link student performance to teacher pay and make it easier to fire teachers. ...just don't ask them or the big business allies backing these "reforms" to actually pay for any of this. This leads us to the major problem facing Florida's public education system: we've been trying to educate the next generation of Floridians on the cheap, and (surprise!) it hasn't worked at all. You can't educate 2.5 million kids (the fourth largest student population int the country) with piecemeal funding. Not gonna work. I'll be the first to admit funding isn't everything, but you have to have a strong base of funding with which to work with and build off of. As I said in a previous post: With current funding, Florida can't even meet minimum obligations to its students, like having enough teachers in order to ensure necessary individual attention via small class sizes. Want to hire more teachers? Sorry, no funding. Want to build new schools? Sorry, no funding. Want to set up teacher incentives? Sorry, no funding. Want to try out new programs or test new ideas? Sorry, no funding. And linking teacher pay to student performance? It's a great way to divide teachers against each other and continue to punish schools and staff that need more resources, not less. Ending teacher tenure? That's taking an axe to a situation which needs a scalpel. We should be reforming "tenure" (which is kind of a misnomer - it's not the same tenure professors at universities receive), so teachers are protected from overzealous principals while "bad apples" are shown the door. Education should be reformed, but doing more of the same isn't what's needed. Let's give our schools the funding and resources they need to do their job. Let's pay teachers better. Let's make teachers unions part of the accountability process rather than demonizing them. Let's provide students with small class sizes, a healthy learning environment, and a multitude of class options beyond just math and reading. We can do better for Florida's children and our state's future. Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 1-22-10 Representative Janet Long pushes bill for stronger early-education Standards By Steve Schale Steve Schale Earlier this week, I took a look at macro-level Florida voter registration trends, which showed that despite a difficult political climate, Democrats are continuing to grow their advantage over Republicans in statewide voter registration. Want to know where Paula Dockery, Bill McCollum, and Alex Sink stand on major issues facing Florida: education, health care, the environment? Good luck.
Take a look at any of the major candidate websites, and you'll find that Dockery and McCollum have no issue page. Alex Sink, to her credit, has an issues page, but only addresses issues she's tackled as CFO, not what she would do as governor. I'm sure issue stances will be added in the future, we're more than 9 months away from the election, but our state faces huge challenges right now. As people who want to lead the fourth largest state in the country, it would be great to know how they would deal with our state's $3 billion budget deficit, woefully underfunded education system, broken health care system, threatened environment, and the overpowering influence of corporate special interests. Furthermore, I'm really surprised the press hasn't caught this. Yes, they have been trying to corner the candidates on some issue questions (particularly Alex Sink on health care lately), but that's it. The press should call the major party candidates on the fact none of them have any kind of significant issue stances. I'm not asking for or expecting vast policy tracts on every conceivable issue Florida faces. For now, at least a few cogent sentences on a handful of key issues would be nice. Is that really too much to ask? Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for week ending 12-11-09 Teabagger hate splinters GOP By Jacqueline Dowd The 13th Juror If you're feeling like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, you may be on to something.Elevating Tamiami Trail and Everglades restoration By Gimleteye Eye on Miami The photo was taken yesterday at the ceremony to commence elevation of one mile of Tamiami Trail: the first construction project for the Everglades that is only for the Everglades and not for cities or agriculture. Christine Bramuchi, Linda Kobert, and Kathleen Oropeza are not kitchen table names in Florida, but you'll be learning more about them and their fight for Florida's public schools over the next several months. Last week, they made headlines across the state when they, along with several other plantiffs, filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida. Their charge? Florida has been shortchanging public schools, and it's time for an overhaul:
The plaintiffs want a court to declare that the state has violated the Florida Constitution and to order state leaders to create a "remedial plan" for fulfilling that constitutional obligation. I'm of the belief that while this lawsuit is about education funding, indirectly this lawsuit is an indictment of Florida's banana republic-like political system. The fight to get adequate resources into Florida schools is a battle that has been raging since the 90s (and I'm sure many would argue this fight goes back to the creation of the Florida Lottery in the late 80s.) However, things really took a turn for the worst when Jeb Bush became governor in 1998, bringing strong Republican majorities with him to both houses of the legislature. Jeb, unlike his brother, was an intellectual conservative, and proceeded to turn our state into a giant right wing policy laboratory where the latest "free market" idea in vogue could be tried out. Jeb, along with his many conservative allies in the legislature, promptly tied teachers hands with an overbearing high stakes test (the FCAT), forced local governments to pick up the tab for most new expenses, and helped contribute to our state's mostly last place status in key barometers (overall funding, per pupil spending, graduation rates, etc.) But Florida voters wanted something different. The same year Bush was elected, Floridians passed an amendment adding new language to our state's constitution. The beginning of Article IX now reads: The education of children is a fundamental value of the people of the State of Florida. It is, therefore, a paramount duty of the state to make adequate provision for the education of all children residing within its borders. In 2002, Floridians voted to amend the constitution to force the legislature to provide money to reduce class sizes, giving students more personalized attention from teachers. Here's most of the language: To assure that children attending public schools obtain a high quality education, the legislature shall make adequate provision to ensure that, by the beginning of the 2010 school year, there are a sufficient number of classrooms so that: Of course, the legislature has ignored Florida voters on all counts. With all this mind, Howard Troxler, a columnist for the St. Petersburg Times asks a good question: Can you win a lawsuit that accuses the Florida Legislature of doing a lousy job? The quick answer is yes, absolutely. But there's more to chew on: Let's say that every claim in the lawsuit is true. While these rulings aren't always popular, they are absolutely possible. The courts ordered Florida to redistrict based on population rather than by county in the mid 60s. This ended political dominance by North Florida reactionaries and gave power to moderates and liberals from Central and South Florida for the next two decades. More Troxler: Maybe they'll win. One of the most overlooked aspects of the famous Brown v. Board of Education decision was the fact that Chief Justice Warren used a lot of statistics demonstrating that segregated schools didn't produce equal results to back up the court's unanimous ruling. I'm not a legal expert, but statistics can play a key role in decision making. If our Legislature is hostile to education, it is still the Legislature elected by the people of Florida. To be sure, our election system is biased by campaign money loopholes and rigged voting districts. If we addressed those factors, we might have a different Legislature. I disagree. We have a court system, one of three branches of government, for a reason. The legislature has arrogantly ignored the Florida constitution and the wishes of the people they allegedly represent. There is little to no way to hold them accountable because of gerrymandered districts designed to ensure incumbents' reelection and the free flow of special interest dollars. We've had governors like Jeb Bush who were ideologically predisposed against a strong public education system, and Charlie Crist, who to put it charitably is totally out to lunch in some overly optimistic la-la land. Local school boards are completely cash strapped and tied down by a mountain of unfunded mandates from the legislature and the governor. So what's left? The courts, plain and simple. This is what they were designed to do: to hold the other two branches accountable. This is why Florida's very political system, not just education, is on trial here. We have a mess in our public education system because our political system as it's set up today can't deliver for Florida voters. That's why this lawsuit, and initiatives like the Fair Districts Amendments are so important to our state's future. In response to teachers protesting hikes in their health insurance costs, in "Our Views: Tone it down" on October 27th, Florida Today's editors said, "We’re strong supporters of Brevard educators, as we’ve proven in advocating better state funding for schools and better pay for teachers."
Florida Today's argument boils down to this: the rest of the working world is having a tougher time than all youse teachers, so just shut up, already. Here's my version of showing strong support for the teachers - providing a resource naming the Brevard School Board members that were collecting wages and retirement benefits simultaneously at the time the St. Petersburg Times printed their double dipper database in 2008. Simply go to the main web page [http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2008/interactives/retirement-loophole/], and then select Brevard Co School Board under "Refine results by." Hopefully, some of the double dippers have actually retired by now. Peruse the database, read the other articles it references and all the while keep in mind the SPT disclaimer that some civil servants' wages are allowed to be kept secret, by law; see just how many Brevard civil servants are riding the gravy train - there seems to be more in Brevard than the county non-residents confuse it with - big, bad Broward. Most of the rest of the working world had to actually retire to collect retirement benefits, and had their retirement benefits reduced reflecting economic losses specific to their industry. Not so with Florida's double dippers. Puzzling SBA financial losses, now under formal investigation by the SEC, have done nothing to inspire Florida's legislators to close the welfare-for-the-wealthly loophole they created. Don't shut up, Brevard teachers and support staff. You've endured a two year pay freeze, according to the article, and now you're going to face increased health care costs and reduced coverage on top of inflation. An either/or isn't unreasonable -- unfreeze wages or freeze health care premiums. Even though taxpayers can be mislead into opposing you in the absence of all the applicable facts - as the comments on Florida Today's editorial indicates - they likely don't want to overpay the Board while underpaying y'all. The next Big Election Day in Florida, as in most of America, is still a year away. On November 2nd, 2010, voters will have the opportunity to rid themselves of an awful lot of public office-holding dead weight - as in the kind that drags down a state - starting with but in no way limited to Governor Charlie Crist, his hand-picked lackey of a fill-in U.S. Senator, George Lemieux, and Attorney General Bill McCollum.
On 11/2/10, Floridians will get a chance to elect Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink as our next governor, U.S. Congressman Kendrick Meek as our new United States Senator, and one of two fine State Senators, Dave Aaronberg or Dan Gelber, as our top law enforcement officer. Take a close look at these talented, true public servants, visit their websites, read their positions on the issues and compare the talk they talk with the walk they walk - as opposed to their Republican counterparts currently holding or seeking to inherit the offices in question. Read More »  Pasco County based legislators John Legg and 2012 speaker-designate Will Weatherford want to listen to local education officials about how to steer our state's flailing education policy:"We're going to take advantage of the people we have locally," said Weatherford, a Wesley Chapel Republican who's in line to become House speaker in 2012. "What I want to focus on is the low-hanging fruit, the things that everybody knows need to be fixed." Sure, it's great when any state legislator wants to truly listen to what's going on at the local level, particularly where state policy has a heavy influence, like public education. However, it already looks like Legg and Weatherford will simply be told what they want to hear, and the conversation will steer clear of any elephants in the room (like funding.) For me this quote from Pasco County School Board Vice-Chairman Allen Altman says it all: "If we're going to challenge the local districts to try to be more effective in their programs and to spread their resources further and do more with less … then (lawmakers) need to look at what they are doing," Altman said, calling some of the Legislature's past practices "wasteful and ineffective." See, that's the problem. Local school districts are constrained to their absolute breaking points by more than a decade of education policy where our wingnut legislature has told local districts to suck it up. If districts were people, their faces would turn purple and their limbs would be turning black and falling off. Challenging local districts to be "more effective" is trying to get different results by doing the same thing our state has done for years. Quite simply: it's insanity. Folks, when it comes to public education in the state of Florida, it's the funding, stupid. Critics will throw out that cliche phrase that "You can't just throw money at the problem"... and those critics know absolutely squat about Florida's public education system. Florida is currently ranked 50th out of 50 states in per capita funding for K-12 public education and 39th in per pupil funding. "Throwing money" at our public education system would be an absolutely wonderful problem to have! With current funding, Florida can't even meet minimum obligations to its students, like having enough teachers in order to ensure necessary individual attention via small class sizes. Want to hire more teachers? Sorry, no funding. Want to build new schools? Sorry, no funding. Want to set up teacher incentives? Sorry, no funding. Want to try out new programs or test new ideas? Sorry, no funding. Until Florida actually funds education that's even in the ballpark with other similarly-sized states, any discussion we have about improvement is really just PR window dressing for state legislators and school board members. It will do little else. Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for week ending 10-9-09 By Julie Hauserman Progress Florida Times may be lean for us ordinary Floridians, but fat cash is flowing in Tallahassee these days. Wingnut tactic: when in doubt, intimidate Public Schools Need a Champion! A record number of Veterans are returning from the Mideast with epilepsy from IED wounds, often masked by PTSD. As it is mere myth that seizures always cause unconscious falls to the floor, many Vets are getting locked up for perceived aggression during standing seizures.
It's an abysmal way to thank a soldier for his service. I'd agreed to research and author written materials to help prevent further arrests through distribution to law enforcement, public defenders, prosecutors and the judiciary. A glimpse at the email exchange below reveals that Gov. Crist keeps me otherwise occupied with his refusal to adhere to statutes; what an astonishing difference between Crist's claimed accomplishments and the actual facts of matters. From: Susan Chandler Date: September 27, 2009 11:47:28 AM EDT To: Governor Charlie Crist Cc: cig@eog.myflorida.com Subject: Response to A Message from Governor Charlie Crist Dear Governor Crist: If memory serves, I already advised your office that it is as imprudent to walk into a hospital cardiac care unit and yell "fire" as it is to deliberately cause someone with epilepsy stress with mindless pranks like your emailed campaign contribution solicitation. As you know, I'm an active, registered Democrat; with the lengthy history of our discord partially documented by my blogs, no one will believe that my receipt of your "message" is anything other than a childish retort for continually calling out your failure to protect the life, liberty and property of Florida's inhabitants, per statutes. I believe I'm repeating myself in writing that for those with epilepsy, stress often triggers seizures and seizures can result in death, more frequently with those like me that have heart conditions. The very least consequences are unpleasant, including six month's suspended driving privileges - virtual house arrest. Before you approach me again on anything other than resolution of Florida's public corruption as your office last did in December, ignoring ensuing emails, you might want to consider that media coverage of taser abuses makes it easier for jurors to understand hands-off homicide attempts such as deliberately deploying duress against someone with epilepsy and/or a heart condition, just as media coverage of the Innocence Project's exonerations makes it easier for jurors to understand the unreliability of eyewitness identification, jailhouse informant testimony, "scent evidence," and much more. No matter how full your campaign coffers get, you're running on empty and going nowhere, sir; Florida's trampled are going to triumph, within the law and with dignity, tactics that our correspondence indicates that you eschew. Regards, Susan Chandler From: "Governor Charlie Crist" Date: September 26, 2009 6:17:23 PM EDT To: "" Subject: A Message from Governor Charlie Crist Dear Friends, As I travel throughout Florida, I am reminded of the people I serve and the trust they have put in me to lead our great state. It has been a true honor to be able to fight for you for nearly two decades – as State Senator, as Education Commissioner, as Attorney General and now as Governor. Together, we have made great strides in protecting our families and children. I am proud that Florida earned a top-ten ranking in education this year. Historic adoption levels have helped our children find good families and homes. Criminals are now facing stiffer sentences for the crimes they commit. We have cut government spending and have achieved historic property tax cuts. But the fight doesn’t stop in Tallahassee. I want to continue to fight for you in Washington. It’s time we bring some Florida common sense to our nation’s capital and let the Democrats know that government is not the solution to every problem and wasteful government spending will not be tolerated. We must continue to fight for Florida’s families and their future. Additionally, we must ensure that our military and veterans have the resources they deserve, and we must safeguard and secure our borders. We are only four days away before the end of another fundraising quarter. I ask that you join my fight for Florida's future by contributing to my campaign. I need your help to spread our positive message - - less taxes, less government and more freedom. Your donation of $25, $50, $100 or $250 will go a long way toward helping us achieve victory in 2010. Please visit www.CharlieCrist.com/contribute or call us at 850-907-1218. I encourage you to visit www.CharlieCrist.com for the latest news from the campaign and ask that you share your thoughts, ideas, and concerns with me at Charlie@TheCristConnection.com. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you and God bless you, Charlie Crist Contributions to Charlie Crist for U.S. Senate are not tax deductible for federal income tax purposes. Contributions by corporations, labor unions and foreign nationals are prohibited. Federal law requires us to use our best efforts to collect and report the name, mailing address, occupation, and name of employer of each individual whose contributions exceed $200 in an election cycle. Phone: 850-907-1218 | Fax: 850-907-1219 | PO Box 1694 Tallahassee, FL 32302 This message was sent from Charlie Crist for U. S. Seante. Click on the following link to Unsubscribe. Paid for by Charlie Crist for U.S. Senate P.S. Those wishing a copy of Crist's solicitation may request one by emailing studio8@infionline.net and putting "copy request" on the subject line. Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for week ending 9-11-09 By Beach Blogger Pensacola Beach Blog Reginald Dogan comes down hard today on Malcolm Thomas and Tim Wyrosdick. This Labor Day: the difference between honest labor and fraud Tallahassee, FL: August 25, 2009: Democrat gubernatorial candidate Michael E. Arth filed a set of grievances and proposals to the Rules Committee and Judicial Council of the Florida Democratic Party (FDP) today. The four page list of grievances, titled “The Democratic Party is Not Being Democratic,” include complaints regarding Arth being frozen out by the party leadership, the party’s breaking of neutrality in violation of democratic principles, and the PDP’s blatant support of another candidate long before the primary election, even while enforcing non-endorsement laws on their Democratic Executive Committees. The grievance also lists various proposed changes that would make the Democratic Party democratic. To go directly to Miami Herald's Blog where the grievance has been posted along with numerous comments go here:
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2009/08/democrat-bashes-undemocratic-democratic-party.html OR KEEP READING HERE: Read More » The far right has been going after the stimulus package in recent days, saying it's a total failure. Most of the stimulus, of course, has yet to be released and thus have a real impact on the overall economy.
However, the funds our state has received has indeed made a significant difference. Every Floridian needs to know that the federal stimulus package saved our education system from the nefarious hands of our legislature, who would have likely dealt severe blows to our K-12 system, endangering tens of thousands of teaching jobs. Had those jobs been lost, the effect on local economies throughout Florida would have been devastating. Now we have some numbers on what the stimulus package did: So far the state has paid out 534 million stimulus dollars to the state’s unemployed. Crist also credits the stimulus dollars for saving education. Of course, the federal stimulus package didn't just bail out our education system from partial meltdown, it also helped out in several other key areas: A recent audit by the federal General Accounting Office of 16 states showed that Florida received the second-highest amount of federal highway dollars, said Don Winstead, Crist's special adviser on the federal-stimulus programs, other-wise known as Florida's "stimulus czar." So there you have it - your stimulus dollars beginning to work. The people tearing their clothes over the stimulus' effect also don't understand that there is nothing "instant" about turning around an economy gone south. The best thing the people's government can do at this stage of the game is prevent/forestall further decline and make long-term investments to ensure a true economic recovery and broadly-shared prosperity. Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for week ending 7-10-09 By Ray Seaman Progress Florida Is this really what the voters had in mind after they overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment setting up term limits in 1992? Hundreds of Children Denied Education in Homestead, the Inside Story Note: the Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida's popular free Daily Clips service. Florida GOP Police Blotter #12: Longtime Republican operative sentenced for corruption By Sinfonian Blast Off! It's been a while since we've had an addition to the Florida GOP Police Blotter. Our Education System: A Good System If You Don't Drop Out? A Different Tactic, But The Same Destruction Capitol Offense: Reading the Florida Constitution 2 Darkness at Noon in the 'Sunshine Law' State While writing about the Florida flavor of politics for the last couple of months, I've been watching as battle lines get drawn over Obama administration initiatives meant to fix some of the more badly broken pieces of The American Dream - the healthcare system, the environment, the working middle class, for starters.
And I want to get in the game. While I'll keep covering Sunshine State doings, I'm also going to start writing more about these core national issues, and the related legislative reform efforts so necessary to restore -- and create anew - some semblance of socioeconomic equilibrium in our American Democracy. But first, I need to get some Big Picture context off my chest - hanging a frame, if you will, in which the canvas of those and related stories can then be methodically mounted for maximum cumulative impact. Because, if taken individually and out of their larger context, each of the aforementioned political battles now raging - and those yet to come -- may seem to some Americans to be just another round of partisan political bickering and business as usual BS - which is just what cynical Conservative and Republican politicians and pundits want people thinking. Because, if taken together and placed in their larger context, those same political battles stop looking like yet another round in an endless prize fight, and instead combine to paint a vivid side-by-side portrait of a country engaged in nothing less than a seminal -- albeit semantic -- socioeconomic and political Civil War. Read More » Posts By Month
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