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Governor’s Office Quietly Announces Appointments to Oversight Board

August 5, 2013

A new Florida law required the governor to appoint the seven-member Partnership for Public Facilities and Infrastructure Act Guidelines Task Force. But if Scott’s office hit the July 1 deadline to make the appointments, it did so quietly.

Florida House Speaker Connected to Citizens Contractor

August 2, 2013

Will Weatherford hasn't disclosed his relationship with a company that has received money from Florida’s state-run insurance company.

Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett Resigns Amid Grading Controversy

August 2, 2013

Tony Bennett, Florida's Education Commissioner, resigned today effective immediately. His resignation follows news this week that he changed his own policies while running Indiana's schools to accommodate a better grade for a school run by a political donor.

Tony Bennett Changed School Grade for Political Donor, Investigation Finds

July 30, 2013

An investigation by the Associated Press found that Tony Bennett, Florida's Education Commissioner and the former Indiana Schools Superintendent, bent his own rules and changed the school grade for an Indianapolis charter school that was run by a prominent Republican donor.

‘Dream Defenders’ Stick Out Another Weekend at the Florida Capitol

July 30, 2013

A group of protesters in Tallahassee known as the "Dream Defenders" spent another weekend at the Capitol.

Florida’s Voter Purge Is On Its Way Back

July 26, 2013

Following this year's U.S. Supreme Court Ruling striking down a part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a judge in Florida throw out a challenge yesterday from voting rights groups to the state's controversial voter purge.