Dara Kam

2 weeks ago | newsserviceflorida.com | Jim Turner |Dara Kam

TALLAHASSEE — House and Senate budget negotiators agreed to pay raises for state employees, with bigger boosts going to law enforcement officers and firefighters, as talks continued Tuesday on a state spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ed Hooper, R-Trinity, and House Budget Committee Chairman Lawrence McClure, R-Dover, also agreed to a slight bump, or 1.59 percent, in K-12 per-student funding.

3 weeks ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Dara Kam

TALLAHASSEE — State university system leaders’ stunning rebuke of Santa Ono’s selection as president of the University of Florida brought into sharp focus efforts by Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans to push higher education into closer alignment with conservative ideology. The University of Florida Board of Trustees last week unanimously recommended Ono, an immunologist who recently stepped down as president of the University of Michigan, to lead the state’s flagship university.

3 weeks ago | chronicleonline.com | Dara Kam

Former Florida State University President and House Speaker John Thrasher died May 30 at age 81. His career in politics and public service spanned more than three decades, died Friday after a battle with cancer, his family announced. Thrasher, 81, served in the House and the Senate before being tapped in 2014 as president of FSU, where he had earned his bachelor’s and law degrees. During his tenure in the Legislature, Thrasher, a Republican, was a close ally of former Gov.

3 weeks ago | observerlocalnews.com | Dara Kam

TALLAHASSEE — State university system leaders’ stunning rebuke of Santa Ono’s selection as president of the University of Florida brought into sharp focus efforts by Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans to push higher education into closer alignment with conservative ideology. The University of Florida Board of Trustees last week unanimously recommended Ono, an immunologist who recently stepped down as president of the University of Michigan, to lead the state’s flagship university.

3 weeks ago | newsserviceflorida.com | Dara Kam

TALLAHASSEE — State university system leaders’ stunning rebuke of Santa Ono’s selection as president of the University of Florida brought into sharp focus efforts by Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans to push higher education into closer alignment with conservative ideology. The University of Florida Board of Trustees last week unanimously recommended Ono, an immunologist who recently stepped down as president of the University of Michigan, to lead the state’s flagship university.