Education Secretary Arne Duncan was in Tampa yesterday in a high profile roundtable discussion with Hillsborough School officials, in a rare case of where something out of the Bay area is hailed as being something that should be duplicated across the country.
Joining Duncan in Tampa was the American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten, who is depicted as one of the bad guys in the saga of our struggling public school system in America in the new documentary Waiting for “Superman”. Weingarten told CL her criticisms about the film.
There’s a story out in several Florida newspapers today written by reporter Gary Fineout about Rick Scott’s support for anti-abortion legislation that its sponsor says could bypass Roe v. Wade because “The Supreme Court is not qualified to determine, establish, or define the moral values of the people of the United States and specifically for the people of Florida. Read more about that here.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum still has the ability to gather headlines for a couple of more months, and the GOP gubernatorial loser is prominently being mentioned in papers across the country as his hand picked judge out of Pensacola ruled that he wants to hear more arguments over whether the health care overhaul is constitutional because of its mandate that citizens must buy health insurance.
And now that the Tampa Bay Rays season has ended, and USF is looking awful, how ’bout them Bucs? How about that depressing mentality by management, who essentially has said that the team won’t sell out any games the rest of the year, despite the fact the team is a surprising 3-1 going into this week’s home game against the world champion New Orleans Saints?
the report here.
This article appears in Oct 14-20, 2010.
