Legislative Update
Now that Florida’s 2018 Legislative Session has come to a close, I wanted to provide an update. This year, there were several major bills under consideration that impacted the Florida College System. One of the biggest was the Community College Competitiveness Act of 2018 (SB 540) which proposed radical changes to FCS governance with a central State Board of Community Colleges, revising the System’s performance-based funding metrics for the fourth time in four years, and imposing restrictions on direct support…