Best of the Blogs: Left Behind

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 10-9-15
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 10-9-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Unions: Reversing The Dyson Effect
By David R. Seamans
Fight For Florida
Is it just me or does it feel like a Dyson vacuum is sucking every last dime out of your American Dream?

Why Marco Rubio’s New Family Leave Plan May Only Help The Well-Off
By Bryce Covert
Think Progress
With a paid family leave proposal released Friday morning, Republican presidential candidate and Florida Senator Marco Rubio became the first vying for his party’s nomination to offer such a plan.

Florida Can Learn A Lot From Texas
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Florida Squeeze
Florida is now the nation’s third largest state. 

Cancer, kids and crumb fields
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
NBC News picked up the thread of toxic exposure, cancer and regulatory failure.

This Florida charter school sounds like every parent and teacher’s education nightmare
By Jen Hayden
Daily Kos
How would you feel as a parent if a little more than one month into the school year the principal of your new charter school fired the bulk of teachers and forced others to take huge pay cuts, lose benefits to remain?