Best of the Blogs: Good To Go

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 5-29-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 5-29-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

What a Waste–Florida End-of-Course Testing Needs to Go
By Rosanne Wood
Rosanne Wood
For the past 4 weeks, middle and high schools have been scrambling to figure out how to get their students scheduled to take mysterious, state-controlled, computerized end-of-course exams.

Rubio’s Gambian Human Rights Fiasco Gets Worse
By Josh Israel
ThinkProgress
On Tuesday, ThinkProgress reported that Jennifer Lukawski, one of the hosts of a Marco Rubio campaign fundraiser scheduled for Wednesday, recently served as a registered foreign agent for a western African regime known for its human rights abuses — including repeated threats to behead gay people.

Charley Johns, The “Pork Chop” Gang, The Purple Pamphlet, And The Shame of Florida’s Circa 1960’s Legislature
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Florida Squeeze
Senator Charley Johns (D-Starke) is one of the best known figures in the Florida Political History for multiple dubious reasons.

Jeb Bush’s 4 percent fraud
By Jon Perr
Daily Kos
There’s an old Monty Python sketch in which a “Face the Press” interviewer grills the Minister for Home Affairs.

The Feds Didn’t Blink….They’ll Force Scott to Think!
By Independent Thinker
SemDem
The recent offer by the feds to provide a lesser scale of funding for the Low Income Pool is being characterized by some as a caving in to Rick Scott, or as “blinking” in this game of funding chicken.