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By Matt [email protected]
Tallahassee | On a 7-4 party-line vote, aRepublican-dominated Senate panel Mon-day rejected outright expansion of Med-
icaid under so-called Obamacare but for-warded two alternative plans that woulduse federal help to get the uninsured intothe private health insurance market.
The move puts the Senate at odds withGov. Rick Scott, who has embraced theexpansion. The House has rejected ex-pansion but put forward no alternatives.Democrats, including those on the Senatepanel, have strongly backed outright Med-icaid expansion.
Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Fernandina Beach,introduced a plan rejecting the $51 millionin federal funds by expanding Medicaid infavor of a plan that relies on subsidies.
Obamacare offers a set of federal sub-sidies to states that reject outright ex-pansion. The National Center for PolicyAnalysis, a nonprofit that aims to pro-
mote private, free-market alternatives togovernment regulation and control, hastestified in past hearings that using sub-sidies to buy private insurance would an-nually bring Florida $1.5 billion more thanMedicaid expansion.
We actually get more money by allow-ing the federal government to buy privateinsurance, Bean said.
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State Senatepanel rejects
MedicaidexpansionAmong altenativesoeed is plan by Beantat elies on subsidies
By Timothy J. [email protected]
The policies and procedures of Jackson-villes general employee and correctionsofficer pension fund are inadequate, out-dated and disorganized, according to anaudit of the system, leading to a group ofretirees getting thousands of dollars more
than they should.The Mayors Office agrees with the
characterization of the fund laid out in thestudy performed by the City Council Au-ditors Office and says it has been takingsteps to address the situation, includingreassigning managers.
The group of retirees looked at in the au-dit a fraction of the few hundred peoplewho retired in 2010 and 2011 had beenoverpaid because benefits were wronglycalculated, ineligible pay periods wereincluded and extra money being put intoDeferred Retirement Option Program ac-counts.
The net overpayment was about $16,000,including one employee who received$7,722 more than required in a refund dueto leaving the city before vesting in the
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Audit findsinadequate
procedures inpension fundStudy sows some etiees ovepaiddue to wongly calculated beneits
By Khristopher J. [email protected]
Duval County Superin-tendent Nikolai Vitti wantsto cut about 80 percent ofthe school districts $2.45million spending at theSchultz Center for Teach-ing and Leadership.
Vitti will present detailsfor a new agreement withthe center to the SchoolBoard on Friday.
Details arent final, butVittis changes would de-crease the amount of fund-ing going to Schultz forteacher professional de-velopment, remove all 35district employees who areworking at the center and
put the district in chargeof all teacher professionaldevelopment.
The proposed changesstem from what the new su-perintendent believes areduplications and inefficien-cies in the way the districthandles staff training.
The amount of fundingdedicated to the SchultzCenter concerns me, butmore importantly, my con-cern rests with the fact thatI do not see evidence thatthe district has taken own-ership of clearly outliningand implementing the vi-sion of professional devel-opment activities, Vitti
said.Schultz CEO Deborah
Gianoulis said she wouldnot discuss specifics aboutthe Schultz Centers rela-tionship with the districtuntil the terms of the 2013-14 contract are official.
We will be negotiatingthe contract over the nextcouple of months and, un-til that is complete, there
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Vitti wants to cut back
Schultz Center fundingEducation ciewould alsobing distictemployeesback to scools
Source: Operating agreements between Duval County Public Schools
and the Schultz Center, Schultz Center annual reports
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$7million
Duval dollars sent to the Schultz CenterA majority of the Schultz Center for Teaching and Leaderships revenue comes from Duval County Public Schools.
09 - 1008 - 0907 - 08 12 - 13*11 - 1210 - 1106 - 0705 - 0604 - 0503 - 0402 - 03*Note: Schultz budget for this year was not immediately available
Total Schultz revenue
Duvals funding
3.16M
1.57M
3.06M 2.93M
3.26M
3.8M
4.18M
2.87M 2.73M2.45M
2.45M
3.15M
SCHULTZ TIMELINE
2002
SchultzCenteropens
2003
Introducesits WeaverExecutiveLeadershipInstitute
2005
SchultzCenterfinishesits firststrategicplan
2006
W.C. GentrybecomesSchultzCenterboardchairman
2007
Contracts with CommunityTraining and AssistanceCenter to perform aneffective study on literacytraining
2012
DeborahGianoulisbecomesSchultzCenter CEO
Elementary school principals Jennifer Gray (from left, facing camera), Ashton Priceand Laura Bowes listen to Mary Ellen Isaac, from the Schultz Center for Teaching and
Leadership, at Lake Forest Elementary School earlier this year.
By Nicole WinfieldAssociated Pess
VaTICaN CITY | Cardinals en-ter the Sistine Chapel onTuesday to elect the nextpope amid more upheavaland uncertainty than theCatholic Church has seenin decades: Theres nofront-runner, no indicationhow long voting will lastand no sense that a single
man has what it takes to fixthe many problems.
On the eve of the vote,cardinals offered wildlydifferent assessments ofwhat theyre looking for inthe next pontiff and howclose they are to a deci-sion. It was evidence thatBenedict XVIs surpriseresignation has continuedto destabilize the churchleadership and that his fi-nal appeal for unity maygo unheeded, at least in theearly rounds of voting.
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Uncertainty weighs heavy on conclaveA Cuc in disaayawaits ist votes onext leade o te ait
Emilio Morenatti Associated Pess
People walk past St. Peters Basilica Monday at the Vatican. On theeve of the conclave, cardinals gathered for a final day of talks beforethe conclave to elect the next pope.
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