The gap between the Florida House and Senate’s testing proposals just got bigger. And lawmakers continue weighing changes to the state’s charter school and class size laws. Lynn Hatter reports on the latest conversations on the state of education in Florida.
A bill presented to the House Education Committee today has strengthened the standards Florida’s charter schools are held to. As Matthew Seeger reports, the bill solves a lot of smaller problems in one fell swoop.
Just days after the full Florida House ceremoniously approved a plan allowing LGBT couples to adopt children, a house committee has passed a bill that would let state-funded adoption agencies deny adoptions to those who don’t meet the agencies’ religious or moral scruples. Regan McCarthy reports activists say the measure is a clear attempt to block same sex families from adopting.
A comprehensive prison reform package is now headed to the Senate, but is the House getting ready to start making its own move to reform Florida’s troubled Department of Corrections? Sascha Cordner reports.
Drones. They’re getting cheaper and hobbyist pilots are finding more and more ways to use them. Many see huge commercial potential, but Nick Evans reports state lawmakers are just as concerned about invasion of privacy
Florida lawmakers who represent districts touched by the St. Johns River met at the Capitol this week [Tuesday] for the annual St. Johns River Caucus. One topic of consideration: a plan to withdraw millions of gallons of water per day from the river. As Peter Haden with member station WJCT in Jacksonville reports, the proposal doesn’t wash with conservationists.