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"Concern for children in this context is just a smoke screen for right-wing activists with far greater ambitions. Calls by Fletcher and many others for a mass exodus from public schools, with the excuse of opposing vaccine and mask mandates, align with the ideal of divesting from the civic space of democracy altogether. They also further the cause of privatizing American education -- a pet project of Trump's Education Secretary Betsy DeVos."
Opinion: Parental control is a smoke screen for right-wing activists
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School drop-off used to be a happy occasion, a time for children to reunite with their friends and parents and caregivers to socialize. For a growing number of Americans, that's no longer the case, wr...
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"Brevard County Republicans join a growing chorus in Florida and across the country to demand that the 2020 election results be audited because of unsupported allegations of widespread fraud."
Brevard Republicans call for forensic audit of election results despite no fraud evidence
floridatoday.com
Calls across the state and country are mounting to press elected officials to audit the 2020 election results even without evidence of widespread fraud.it’s all part of a plan to discredit ALL elections. Even the ones that they win. What would happen if no one knew if the Declared winner actually won or not? It would end the ability of elections to determine who would lead us. Then republicans would step in and pick who they want using the power of their large number of state legislature control . They have already given themselves the power to do this in Texas and here in Georgia. Other states are going the same way. That person would end democracy. Republicans know that they can no longer win fair elections . So because the only thing that they care about politically is winning (at any cost - by any means) if you can’t win elections then stop having them. Yes it seems hyperbolic. But that doesn’t mean it’s not true.
Brevard voted overwhelmingly for Trump, and the republican ticket, the republican party unfortunately still has a strong grip on the county, and yet to appease the big orange baby who has probably forgotten there is a Brevard county, the party wants to waste tax payer money on an audit that won't show any fraud.
Good grief can't they learn from what AZ just went through (5 months)with the Florida based Cyber Ningas? One of the largest counties in the country, run by Republicans and denounced by some of the same leadership found a few more votes for Biden/Harris. Like Todd Darnell said these folks are trying to discredit all elections.
What would Roy Kent say..
Take a step drag Brevard.
"Brevard School Board member Jennifer Jenkins took to the national airwaves Thursday to lay out details of what she described as a campaign of harassment against her by critics, including vague threats and dubious accusations of child abuse."
School Board member Jenkins' comments about threats, harassment grab national attention
www.floridatoday.com
Comments at a Tuesday Brevard County School Board meeting from member Jennifer Jenkins detailing harassment drew national media attention
"However, growing the nursing profession in Florida will not simply be solved by increasing opportunities for would-be nurses to get their degrees, said Michelle Mahon, assistant director of nursing practice at National Nurses United, a union of registered nurses.
'It’s very important to remember the commissioner of this report is the hospital association themselves," she said. 'They’re focusing on education, and rightfully so, however, just filling a pipeline, we will continue to be in this problem. ... There is a hole in the pipeline that is ... glossed over by the report.'
Her opinion is that the report prioritizes education to shift focus from actions the hospitals could take to improving working conditions and keep more nurses in the state.
One example, she said, comes when the report notes that Florida nurses are paid significantly less than the national average, but does not propose paying nurses more as a solution to the shortage. National Nurses United is advocating for minimum staffing ratios and workplace violence prevention standards, among other policies to increase nurse retention and safety.
Mahon also thinks the report wrongly assumes that the surge of nurses who quit or relocated during COVID-19 will be temporary."
Florida nursing schools need more funding, faculty to prevent 59,100 nurse shortfall: report
www.orlandosentinel.com
Florida may be short nearly 60,000 nurses by 2035. But public nursing schools say they lack money and resources to expand.
"Might the Republicans running the Florida Legislature’s redistricting committees budge on Democrats’ requests to let the public speak online about drawing their future voting districts?
The effort would utilize Zoom or similar online platforms around the state.
House redistricting chairman Tom Leek of Volusia County didn’t bother to respond when asked that question during a hearing of the full reapportioning committee on Tuesday.
But Wednesday, Rep. Tyler Sirois, a Brevard Republican who chairs the subcommittee on congressional redistricting, said the idea has not been definitively ruled out."
Glimmer of hope appears for virtual public hearings on Florida's redistricting - Florida Phoenix
floridaphoenix.com
Might the Republicans running the Florida Legislature’s redistricting committees budge on Democrats’ requests to let the public speak online about drawing their future voting districts? The effort...