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Parent trigger vote expected Friday; opponents hopeful it will fail listen

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Tags: education, education funding, Jack Latvala, Nan Rich, Jean Clements, Hillsborough Classroom Teacher's Association, Students First, Michelle Rhee, parent trigger bill

Update: the parent trigger / parent empowerment bill failed 20-20 Friday

A final state Senate vote on the "parent trigger" bill has been postponed until Friday; it would allow parents to have a say in how to improve a failing school including turning it into a privately run charter school. The bill has already passed in the House, but Jean Clements, president of the Hillsborough Classroom Teacher’s Association, said she’s confident there is enough opposition to leave the measure dead Fr...

Last Call with Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association

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Tags: teachers, Awake the State, Hillsborough Classroom Teacher's Association

Tim Herberlein and Beth Roach from the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association discuss the upcoming Awake the State rallies.

Teachers Alarmed By Plans In Tallahassee To Enact Merit Pay

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Tags: merit pay, teacher tenure, Hillsborough Classroom Teacher's Association, Nick Whitman, Jean Clements, Jeb Bush

Coming up today we'll talk with members of a local teacher's union who are planning to hold a rally today in opposition to the teacher merit pay legislation making its way through the legislature.

But first some listener comments about yesterday's program. The segment that received the most comments was the one about America's prison system. Yesterday we heard from Robert Perkinson, the author of a new book about the rapid expansion of the nation's prison system in the past 40 years.

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