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New School Superintendent.Will raising taxes be her “thing” or raising standards?
Local government schools will have a new superintendent. After mixed results in the past, parents and taxpayers will have to hope this one proves worthy. The first job for Diana Greene will be to get the fiscal house in order. It will be a bigger job than she has now. She heads Manatee County schools,…
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Who is really Thinking about what’s best for ALL of us in Jacksonville? A Think Tank?
One thing Jacksonville could use is an independent think tank. For 40 years or thereabouts, the old Jacksonville Community Council Inc. sought to fill this role, with mixed results. Eventually it drifted so far left that it lost all its private funding and closed. But when it started under the tutelage of Jacksonville civic leader…