Compromise ahead for Florida education budget

| 4/13/2017

Compromise ahead for Florida education budget

Disputes over Florida's education budget proposals have found the state Senate and House $538 million apart, with leaders on each side sounding resolute to stand their ground. Yet as the chambers move to adopt their spending plans and related bills, the walls appeared to be coming down. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]

Trump administration and DeVos tout Florida as the model for school choice

Florida has channeled billions of taxpayer dollars into scholarships for poor children to attend private schools over the past 15 years, using tax credits to build a laboratory for school choice that the Trump administration holds up as a model for the nation. [Source: Washington Post]

Opinion: State universities are Florida’s success story

Florida’s public university students are achieving a higher level of success than they were five years ago. Students are succeeding in their classes, pursuing degrees in STEM and other high-demand fields, and graduating with higher wage jobs. And, for many students, the cost of attendance is less. [Source: Miami Herald ]

Private nonprofit, for-profit universities could soon get regulatory relief

Bad press, combined with federal rules and regulations disproportionately targeting the higher education alternatives, have taken their toll on nonprofit and for-profit universities in recent years — but that could soon change. [Source: Florida Politics ]

State adds up cost for university degrees

The average “net” cost for students earning baccalaureate degrees at Florida universities last year was $14,820, according to a new measurement that will be used to evaluate the schools this summer. [Source: WUFT]

ALSO AROUND FLORIDA:

› Florida Coastal School of Law making changes [Jacksonville Daily Record]
InfiLaw owns three for-profit law schools in the U.S. Arizona Summit Law in Phoenix and Charlotte Law School in North Carolina were placed on probation in November by the American Bar Association. That leaves Florida Coastal School of Law, and the local legal education provider is taking steps to avoid sanction by the ABA.

› Special ed school vouchers in Florida may come with hidden costs [New York Times]
For many parents with disabled children in public school systems, the lure of the private school voucher is strong. But in some states, including Florida, families may be unknowingly giving up their rights to the very help they were hoping to gain.

› Discussion is discouraged as SPC searches for a new president [Tampa Bay Times]
Through silent tallies on a whiteboard, the list of hopefuls for the job of St. Petersburg College president has been narrowed to five. Some members of the search committee have questioned the process in recent weeks, particularly the lack of conversation about candidates.

› UF researchers play major role in Glades area farms’ success [Palm Beach Post]
For decades, scientists at the University of Florida’s Everglades Research & Education Center in Belle Glade have been working alongside growers to allow them to continue farming as their crops attract countless insects, pests, weeds and diseases.

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