Jobs Needing Less Education Growing

Home health aides, medical assistants and other workers with less than a four-year college degree account for nearly half of the health care workforce in Florida and across the country, a new Brookings Institute analysis reports. Credit Wikimedia Commons Between 2009 and 2011, a total of 3.8 million people in 10 different “pre-baccalaureate” fields worked…

Florida Teachers Union Challenges School Choice Legislation In Court

Florida’s teachers union announced a lawsuit Wednesday aiming to block a new law that, among other things, expands eligibility for tax credit scholarships and creates the second-in-the-nation personal learning scholarship accounts program. The suit doesn’t argue the programs themselves are unconstitutional. Like a recent challenge of Alabama’s tax credit scholarship program, it focuses on how…