Joe HendersonMarch 17, 2021
4min1123
Making it harder to vote goes against what any civics educator would teach.
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Joe HendersonMarch 17, 2021
A.G. GancarskiMarch 17, 2021
4min3919
Many questions remain about the Governor's $116M proposal.
Jason DelgadoFebruary 14, 2021
4min1295
The proposal intends to help students understand shared rights and responsibilities.
Jacob OglesDecember 11, 2019
5min1012
Governor said knowledge of U.S> history will ensure true freedom.
Bill RuftyOctober 24, 2018
6min584
Dennis Ross, the Republican congressman from the 15th Congressional District, joined Southeastern University President Kent Ingle to announce the retiring congressman’s new job during a Wednesday news conference. The Lakeland Republican is becoming part of a major center for the teaching of government and civics both for students and the general public. Upon his departure from the U.S. House […]
Bill RuftyOctober 14, 2016
4min273
The vitriolic presidential campaign and its controversies are due in a major part to the education system failing to retain one of its traditional and historical obligations, the teaching of civics, U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, a Lakeland Republican, told a meeting of a Kiwanis Club in his hometown Thursday. “I have never seen anything like […]
Ryan RayDecember 4, 2015
4min242
Three civics education initiatives proposed by U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham are set to become law as part of the just-passed Every Child Succeeds Act, approved Thursday by the House 359-64. Graham’s camp says the Tallahassee Democrat shepherded language into the bill by working with a bipartisan group of members to sway Education Committee Chairman John Kline to include […]
Ryan RayNovember 4, 20153min231
U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham and U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross have unveiled a bipartisan effort in Congress to boost civics education across the nation. Graham, a freshman Democrat from Tallahassee is teaming up with Ross, a Polk County Republican, will pursue a resolution encouraging high schools to administer a civics test to high school seniors. The questions are taken from the […]
Guest AuthorApril 12, 2015
7min429
Two bills speeding through the legislature, CS/SB 736 and CS/CS/HB 611, are set to change complex and nuanced areas of real estate law. They deal with such arcane things as estoppel certificates and who pays what at real estate closings. Those concepts may be complex to the average reader, so I’d like to frame it […]
Guest AuthorJanuary 21, 20156min182
Most of us who are born American citizens take for granted the basic freedoms and affluent way of life that our country gives us. Living in the USA, we’re spoiled because we don’t encounter abysmal poverty, despotism and the lack of value of human life that exists in the rest of the world. Think about […]