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Governor DeSantis
Announces Three New Legislative Initiatives
Governor DeSantis announced three proposals this
week for the 2023 Legislative Session that combine to support and grow
Florida’s teaching workforce and leverage the talents of Florida’s
retired veterans and first responders.
The
proposals include:
- A
recruitment initiative to bring retired first responders and retired
military veterans to the classroom through fee waivers and bonuses;
- An
apprenticeship program that provides bonuses to experienced educators
for mentoring aspiring teachers who hold an associate degree to gain
hands-on teaching experience; and
- A
scholarship program for K-12 teachers interested in teaching dual
enrollment courses on high school campuses to earn their master’s
degree.
“These
three initiatives will build on our efforts to increase recruitment
and retention of high quality teachers,” Governor DeSantis said.
“Great teachers don’t become great teachers because they are sitting
in a university lecture hall. What makes a teacher great is being in
the classroom, watching other teachers and seeing what
works.”
Read more: https://www.flgov.com/2022/08/16/governor-ron-desantis-announces-three-new-initiatives-to-elevate-teachers-and-students-learning/
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Governor DeSantis
Highlights Rule Changes that Allow Florida Veterans to Receive College
Credit for Military Courses
Governor
DeSantis announced this week that the State Board of Education adopted
military-friendly amendments to the Florida Administrative Code that
increase educational and employment opportunities for veterans and
active servicemembers.
“In
Florida, we are leading by example with innovative teacher recruitment
initiatives and in our support of military and veteran families,”
Governor DeSantis said. “These proposals and actions will create new
avenues for veterans, first responders and aspiring teachers to excel
and continue to serve their communities while building meaningful
careers.”
The State
Board of Education amended its rules allowing military veterans to
obtain a five-year temporary teaching certificate without a bachelor’s
degree, providing the following criteria are met:
- Minimum of
48 months of military service with an honorable/medical
discharge;
- Minimum of
60 college credits;
- Passing
score on a Florida subject area examination;
- Employment
in a Florida school district, including charter schools;
and
- Cleared
background screening.
The State
Board of Education also amended its rules to expand opportunities for
veterans and military servicemembers to be awarded postsecondary
credit for equivalent training and education acquired in the military.
Find out more about the Military Veterans
Certification Pathway program and additional opportunities for
military personnel here: https://www.fldoe.org/teaching/certification/military/.
Read more: https://www.flgov.com/2022/08/17/governor-ron-desantis-highlights-teacher-recruitment-initiatives-and-education-rule-changes-that-allow-florida-veterans-to-receive-college-credit-for-military-courses/
Senator Rubio:
Biden's Cancer Research Reduction Act
 Senator Rubio met with the
Republican Jewish Coalition this week to discuss the importance of the
U.S. relationship with Israel and what we can do to address the issues
facing our country.
Senator
Marco Rubio wrote in Newsweek that the so-called Inflation Reduction
Act would result in fewer life-saving medical
innovations.
Tom Whitehead continually marvels at the
life-saving power of CAR T-cell gene therapy, which rescued his
daughter Emily from pediatric leukemia. "To look at her every day and
see what a cure for cancer actually looks like––it's pretty amazing,"
he says.
CAR T-cell therapy is a revolutionary
treatment, years in the making. It's no surprise it was developed in
the United States; more biomedical innovation occurs here than
anywhere else in the world. But that's likely to change because of the
newly passed Inflation Reduction Act.
It's a simple case of incentives. Innovative
medicines take about $2.6 billion over 10 to 15 years to complete.
Pharmaceutical companies can only afford the trial and error of
research and development (R&D) because the successes offset the
price of the failures.
But by empowering government bureaucrats to
set artificial price caps on drugs, the Inflation Reduction Act will
remove the incentive to produce innovative therapeutics for patients
in dire need. Even as the legislation lowers routine costs for some,
the University of Chicago estimates it will slash national biomedical
R&D by $663 billion––almost 20 percent––over the next 17
years.
Read Senator Rubio’s entire column: https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-cancer-research-reduction-act-opinion-1733036
Val Demings Stands
By Her Security Team Assaulting a Videographer
Val Demings
security detail assaulted a man trying to video her event, pushed him
to the ground and kept him down, then threatened him and it’s all
captured on video supplied to Florida Politics. While the Brevard
County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the attack against the
videographer, Demings’ office is standing by her security’s
actions.
Read the story here: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/547419-video-shows-val-demings-security-pushing-man-to-ground-outside-public-event/
Attorney General
Moody Leads Multistate Effort Against Unlawful Mask
Mandate
 Attorney General Ashley Moody is
leading a 23-state coalition in filing a brief in support of the
Health Freedom Defense Fund’s lawsuit against the Biden
Administration.
Attorney
General Moody argues that the district court correctly vacated the
CDC’s interstate travel mask mandate in this case because President
Biden’s CDC order exceeds its authority and infringes on each state’s
ability to enact its own public health rules.
“The
American people and our courts have rejected the federal government’s
unlawful mask mandate for air travel,” Attorney General Moody said.
“It’s astonishing that Biden continues to fight to force passengers to
wear masks on airplanes. We are once again pushing back, in court,
against his unlawful federal overreach.”
Read more: http://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsreleases/F64BA36C3A32939B8525889900524588?Open&
Read the full brief here: http://myfloridalegal.com/webfiles.nsf/WF/GPEY-CH5HWV/$file/Mask+Mandate+Amicus+-+Stamped.pdf
CFO Patronis
Proposes Legislation to Protect Floridians from a
Politicized and “Supersized IRS”
Florida
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis is recommending four
legislative changes that would protect small businesses from the
audits of the newly supersized IRS and their political discrimination
in the Sunshine State.
“For years
I have seen liberal Democrats say with a straight face that small
business is the backbone of the American economy, but today they voted
to create a large army of IRS agents to aggressively target these
hardworking American employers,” CFO Patronis said. “Even amid a
national border crisis, the U.S. has only about 20,000 border guards,
but now we have more than 87,000 new IRS agents?”
Patronis is recommending legislation in Florida
that would:
- Require
state chartered banks to generate a regular report on IRS engagement
that could be used to help Florida identify patterns of
discrimination.
- Establish
a Civil Liability Trust Fund to help small businesses defend
themselves, or even sue the IRS in cases of politically motivated
audits or federal overreach.
- Create a
license at the state level so new IRS agents are required to register
to access account information. The licensing process would further
scrutinize IRS operatives by examining their backgrounds and motives
to protect Florida consumer information.
- Establish
criminal penalties for enforcing laws based on viewpoint or political
discrimination.
Read more: https://www.myfloridacfo.com/sitePages/newsroom/pressRelease.aspx?id=6238
Watch CFO Patronis explain his proposals on Fox
News: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6310992536112#sp=show-clips
Lieutenant
Governor Jeanette Nuñez was recently on NBC 6 in Miami talking about a
broad range of issues. She provided viewers with a concise explanation
of Governor DeSantis’ endorsement of pro-student and pro-parental
rights School Board candidates across the state in the upcoming Aug.
23 election, including Monica Colucci and Roberto Alonso in Miami-Dade
County.
Lieutenant
Governor Nuñez also made clear why she supported the Governor
suspending the rogue Hillsborough State Attorney “When you go out of
your way to express your woke agenda, to say you refuse to prosecute,”
crimes you don’t think should be crimes, “that is simply a dereliction
of duty.”
Watch the entire interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfItzhf-iY
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