by Kathleen Passidomo | Sep 17, 2023
As the new school year begins, it is amazing to reflect back on what an exciting year 2023 has been for education in the Sunshine State. Just a few months ago, the Legislature passed and Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law historic school choice and parental...
by Brian Burgess | Sep 10, 2023
For those who didn’t have time to skim the headlines over the last week, you missed a pair of hair-raising news narratives chronicling certain doom for the State of Florida. First, there was an “extremely dangerous” Category 5 hurricane, named Lee, chugging toward us....
by Brian Burgess | Sep 6, 2023
As Tropical Storm Lee swirls in the Atlantic, media outlets seem determined to pump it full of as much warm, moist air as possible, inflating the potential for disaster despite predictions showing little chance that the storm will have any impact on U.S. territories,...
by Brian Burgess | Sep 4, 2023
Ah, politics. The realm of the eternal campaign, where a day without a Twitter er… “X” feud is a day without a sunrise. But what’s this we saw on Saturday? A glimmer of bipartisanship cutting through the usual mudslinging, finger-pointing,...
by Brian Burgess | Aug 13, 2023
Over the last week or so, our state’s largest teachers union, the Florida Education Association (FEA), and its president, Andrew Spar, have sounded alarm bells at media outlets from Pensacola to Miami about the “largest teacher shortage in state...
by Brian Burgess | Jul 31, 2023
Oh, Florida. The one state that makes Texas look normal. In the land of alligators, oranges, and the infamous “Florida Man,” we now find ourselves up to our necks in media reports about leprosy “surges” and COVID-19 “upticks.” Yet,...
