March 31, 2010. House proposes $3.4 billion budget for SUS, Senate offering $3.54 billion, Both include 8% tuition increase.
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31.032010October 28, 2015
UFF-FAU 2009-10 Assessment of Administrators Is Here!
March 31, 2010. Survey now being conducted electronically, Results to be circulated before end of the spring term.
30.032010March 30, 2010
Urge Florida Legislators to Stop Planning More Budget Cuts for Higher Ed and Oppose Reduction of Pension Benefits
March 30, 2010, 8:25PM. At present 28 bills being considered by Florida legislators would CUT faculty pension benefits. Most every one reduces benefits in FRS.
29.032010March 29, 2010
Disappearing Disciplines: Degree Programs Fight for Their Lives
March 29, 2010. Chronicle of Higher Ed focuses on FSU to highlight power of university administrators and trustees to vote entire disciplines--and the faculty in them--out of existence.
29.032010March 29, 2010
Gainesville Sun: Three Bills, Three Fates for Florida’s Universities
March 29, 2010. "... it may not be known until the waning days of the Legislature which one will be the final bill and how much, if any, the budgets will be cut."
27.032010March 27, 2010
PB Post: Is FL Legislature Anti-union or Just Getting ‘Floridians Back to Work’?
March 27, 2010. GOP lawmakers may be using budget shortfall to ram through anti-employee legislation and weaken public employee unions, FEA President Andy Ford: "The governor who brags about coming from a family of educators said he's ready to sign a bill bashed as a union-busting assault on public school teachers."
27.032010March 27, 2010
FEA Frontline Report: Week of March 22
By jamestrcyIn HomeTags Budget, Charlie Crist, corporate university, Florida, Florida budget, HB 1319, higher education, Jeb Bush, SB 6, State pensions, teacher tenure
March 27, 2010. SB 6 passes Senate while House counterpart HB 7189 begins ascent, Assault on Florida Retirement System stems from legislators' burning desire to balance budget without raising taxes.
26.032010March 25, 2010
Pandemonium Reigns within Capitol committee room over House version of “Jeb Bush’s education bill”
March 26, 2010. Over 2,000 parents, teachers, and students rally outside in support of public education, teacher tenure. Contact legislators!
25.032010March 25, 2010
The Legislative Attack on FRS Pensions
March 25, 2010. Deluge of messages to legislators derails HB 1319 from fast track, "Significant threats to pensions" remain, "They are coming at us from all directions."
24.032010March 24, 2010
SB 6 Passes Senate, House version of SB 6 to be heard Thursday 3-25 in House PreK 12 Education Policy Committee
March 24, 2010, 2:45PM. Four Republicans courageously join with Democrats in voting NO! Urge House PreK-12 Committee to vote against its version of SB 6.