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USF students protest budget cuts on both sides of the Bay listen
03/01/12 Janelle Irwin & Samuel JohnsonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, USF St. Petersburg, education, education funding, education cuts, activism, protests, JD Alexander, Occupy Movement, Occupy Tampa, SDS
Occupy Education, an off-shoot of the Occupy Movement, called for a national day of action today demanding legislation that would increase educational spending instead of cutting budgets. At the University of California, Santa Cruz, student protesters shut down most of the campus. Students at USF campuses in Tampa and St. Pete held events today in solidarity with that effort. Students at both campu...
Be the first to commentUSF president, students glad for restored funding but still want fewer cuts listen
02/24/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, Judy Genshaft, USF Polytechnic, JD Alexander, education, education funding, education cuts
Some of the sting was taken away from the cuts proposed for the University of South Florida. That’s because the state Senate voted yesterday to more evenly spread 400 million dollars in budget cuts across all Florida public universities. They also approved plans to immediately make the USF Polytechnic campus in Lakeland the state’s 12th independent university. USF students and the university president reacted to the news last night on the Tampa campus.
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Be the first to commentHead of USF St. Pete says they are suffering from budget cuts too listen
02/23/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Margaret Sullivan, USF St. Petersburg, Rick Scott, budget cuts, education cuts, education, education funding, USF, JD Alexander
USF St. Petersburg faces a two to three million dollar budget cut under Florida Senator JD Alexander’s budget plan. It pales in comparison to the deep cuts proposed for its parent university in Tampa. But, at a Suncoast Tiger Bay luncheon Thursday afternoon, the Chancellor of USF St. Pete, Margaret Sullivan, said the drop in funding still hurts.
USF St. Pete’s proposed funding...
Be the first to commentTampa City Council weighs in on Florida Senate's proposed funding cuts to USF listen
02/16/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, Tampa City Council, JD Alexander, Charlie Miranda, Mike Saurez, 2012 Legislative session, education, education funding, USF Polytechnic
The Tampa City Council is weighing in on the Florida Senate’s proposed budget cuts for the University of South Florida. At their meeting this morning, Council member Mike Suarez proposed sending a letter to Hillsborough County’s legislative delegation voicing disappointment with the proposed cuts and to show support for USF.
Senate budget chair JD Alexander wants the university to speed up the process of splitting off its Lakeland polytechnic campus so it can become Florida’s 12th state un...
Be the first to commentIs the future of science education in danger? listen
02/10/12 Liz McKibbonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: evolution, Board of Education, USF, National Center for Science Education, Eugenie Scott, science, education, creationism
An anthropologist warns Florida has laws that are a back-door entrance to teaching creationist theory in schools. At a lecture Thursday night in Tampa as part of USF’s Darwin Day celebration, Eugenie Scott says that’s hurting the quality of science education in the state.
Students, professors and the public filled nearly every seat in USF’s Fine Arts Hall. Jamie Delgato was one student in attendance.
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Waldorf Schools consultant says "education of the heart" can cultivate emotional intelligence listen
01/26/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: education, Waldorf Schools
Because of pressure from politicians, most educators in the U.S. are forced to “teach to the test” even though they have the skills and training to provide a much more rounded education. That’s the take of Eugene Schwartz, an educational consultant working mainly with Waldorf Schools.
“…We’re not teaching to the test, we’re teaching to the child.”
Schwartz is speaking at 7:00 p.m. today at the Suncoast Waldorf School at 1857 Curlew Road in Palm Harbor. Ph...
Be the first to commentThe good, the bad and the ugly of school choice listen
01/11/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Fund Education Now, Kathleen Oropeza, Foundation for Florida's Future, Patricia Levesque, Jeb Bush, education, education funding, Education reform, education cuts
Florida lawmakers are pushing to expand public education options for students. Some education advocates who prefer more traditional approaches warn doing that filters public money into private hands.
Governor Rick Scott signed an education bill last March during a ceremonial tour of charter schools.
Be the first to comment"We have to have legislation that expands school choice; expands charter schools. We must give parents, as we all know charter schools are public s...
Sarasota’s Awake the State rally focuses on the “worst legislative session in Florida’s history” listen
11/02/11 Doug DriscollWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: jobs, Women's rights, education, Awake the State, Awake Sarasota
At the Awake the State rally in Sarasota, about 120 people geared up to get out the vote in 2012. They represented a large cross section of people affected most by Florida’s deep spending cuts and social agenda.
Donna Cubit-Swoyer is secretary for the Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections. She says they are pushing legislators to enact fair districting in time for the next elections.
Rita Ferrandino, President of the [Saraso...
Be the first to commentUSF panel discusses shortfalls of 'migrant' education listen
10/21/11 Jean Henry TelcyWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Education reform, education, immigration, farm workers
Just over 20 people gathered in the Grace Allen Room at the University of South Florida Library for the panel organized by the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean in partnership with the Center for Migrant Education. It was moderated by Ann Cranston-Gingras, director of the Center for Migrant Education.
“[Education] becomes an issue because there are no ... regulations at the uni...
1 commentsIn talk with USF students, Tampa Mayor Buckhorn at loss for his opinion on DREAM Act listen
10/11/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bob Buckhorn, high speed rail, DREAM Act, USF, Tuition fee increases, education, students, immigration
In an attempt to raise political interest among college-aged voters, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn answered questions from students at USF Tampa last night. He said young adults should get more involved in politics, but fumbled over one of their questions about the DREAM Act.
As the Mayor of a city with a major university – one whose economic contribution is substantial – you would think Buckhorn would make sure he’s up on ...
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