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FSU/Koch deal comes with heavy strings attached
05/13/11 Lisa Marzilli, Beth BellLast Call Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: FSU, Charles Koch, Cat Warren, Koch Brothers, education, academic freedom
This week saw a spotlight turned on a deal between FSU and Charles Koch that gives the billionaire conservative control over the hiring and firing of two university professors in exchange for a $1.5 million donation to the FSU Economics Department.
Today we spoke with North ...
Be the first to commentAssessing the damage of the 2011 FL Legislative session with USF St. Pete Professor Darryl Paulson
05/06/11 Lisa Marzilli, Beth BellLast Call Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Florida Legislature, Darryl Paulson, 2011 Legislative session, voting, education, environment, women's issue, labor
The 2011 Florida legislative session, scheduled to end Friday, reportedly progressed into the wee hours of Saturday morning and ended with GOP lawmakers turning on themselves. The St. Petersburg Times says "It was a rocky end to one of the most ambitious and ideological sessions in modern history..."
To help us better comprehend the relentless, 60 day GOP assault on women's rights, worker's rights, voting rights, healthcare, education and the environment we are joined on Friday's Last Ca...
Be the first to commentRallies for full funding of public education; should US release bin Laden photo?
05/04/11 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: education, 2011 Legislative session, Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama
Today on Last Call, we spoke with a biological sciences teacher, David Peacock, live from one of several rallies to support full funding for public education in Florida
Many of our callers wanted to discuss today's news that President Barack Obama has decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden's body.
1 commentsImmigrant and youth issues propel USF student body president to claim political speech record listen
04/20/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cesar Hernandez, University of South Florida, filibuster, speech, USF, Florida Legislature, Barack Obama, immigration, youth, education, students
Late this morning, University of South Florida student body president Cesar Hernandez wrapped up a record-breaking speech that lasted twenty-four hours. The aspiring doctor and politician hopes to catch the eye of lawmakers in Tallahassee and Washington.
"What struck me most forcibly about the NLF was the totality as a social revolution first and as a war second..."
It was a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-style filibuster, but unlike the film, spectators wore flip-flops and carried iPo...
Be the first to commentUSF student body president to lead talk-a-thon for student rights and immigration reform listen
04/15/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, immigration, students, education
Some University of South Florida students are so upset about how lawmakers in Tallahassee and Washington are treating young people, they’re going to talk about it nonstop for more than three days. They don’t like cuts to education or policies that hurt immigrants. It’s being spearheaded by Cesar Hernandez, USF’s student body president who also serves on the university’s Board of Trustees.
One of their goals is for president Obama to notice their activism enough to come to USF to engage the...
Be the first to commentFlorida House subcommittee passes school voucher expansion bill listen
04/08/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: school vouchers, Florida House of Representatives, education reform, 2011 Legislative session, education
A state house subcommittee passed a bill expanding school vouchers to an additional 50,000 Florida students. Opponents fear broadening eligibility criteria for the state-funded McKay Scholarship would weaken the program.
The McKay Scholarship Program grants school choice to students with cognitive or sensory disabilities like hearing impairment, dyslexia, or autism. It pays for qualifying students to attend a private or public school...
Be the first to commentFlorida Governor Rick Scott gets booed at Tampa Bay Rays home opener listen
04/04/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rick Scott, mental health, education, Rays, job creation, Tampa Bay Rays, St. Petersburg
The increasingly common public outcry against Governor Rick Scott continued on Friday. This time at a baseball game. Hundreds of protesters gathered both in and around Tropicana Field to protest Scott as he threw out the first pitch at the Tampa Bay Rays’ home opener.
Friday was April Fool’s Day, and several hundred Rick Scott opponents celebrated with a chorus of boos at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. As news of Rick Scott’s throwing of the first pitch at the season opener for the Ta...
19 commentsHow can children's mental health research be effective listen
03/30/11 Dawn Morgan ElliottWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: mental illness, research, USF, education, Children's Board, children's mental health
At last week’s 24th Annual Children’s Mental Health Research and Policy Conference in downtown Tampa, WMNF’s Dawn Morgan Elliott spoke with several mental health professionals about how research can grow from an idea to a viable strategy in dealing with children’s behavioral issues and mental illness.
“We who are providing services in the field of children and families are being asked to prove that what we’re doing works.”
Robert Lieberman is the Executive Director of the Southern O...
Be the first to commentActivists rally against Scott, GOP legislature over a slew of issues listen
03/28/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: unions, teachers, SB6, SB736, Fight Back Florida, Awake the State, Rick Scott, Dana Young, education
Since the start of the legislative session, droves of people unhappy with Rick Scott and the Republican-controlled legislature have been spending Friday afternoons rallying against numerous state policies. Protesters don’t think they’ll be changing the governor’s mind any time soon, but they do hope to draw attention from fellow voters.
Republican State Representative Dana Young’s Tampa office...
Be the first to commentCEO of Children's Board on mental illness & early childhood education listen
03/25/11 Dawn Morgan ElliottWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: mental illness, research, USF, education, Children's Board
Dr. Luanne Panacek is the CEO of the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County. This week she attended the 24th Annual Children’s Mental Health Research and Policy Conference in Tampa, and sat on a panel that responded to keynote speaker Geoffrey Canada, a somewhat controversial education reformer and founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York.
WMNF’s Dawn Morgan Elliott interviewed Panasek today, and began by asking her to explain the role of the [Children’s Board](http://www.childre...
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