Fiscal Rangers

The Process inherited by the new Florida Governor to process appointments is convoluted and non-transparent!

We created a watchdog blog video of the convoluted, confusing and non-transparent process used by the Florida Governor's Appointments office to find filled and vacant positions and apply for them. Watch it - it took us 44 minutes to explain the whole bureaucratic "we always have done it this way" process. Read more →

Today, March 25, 2019 is Medal of Honor Day, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a Proclamation

The governor issued a proclamation to honor Medal of Honor recipients and we found it in today's agenda for the Lake County School Board.   Here it is: Read more →

"Unplanned", the Movie, about Right To Life issues and Planned Parenthood abortions to be in Theaters this week

Right to Life supporters might want to know that an expose movie about Planned Parenthood is playing at Lake County theaters later this week on March 28 & 29.  It is also playing nationally.   Links are included to find movie times and locations and the book on Amazon. Read more →

The GREAT annual Sunnyland Antique & Classic Boat show in Tavares, FL is over and we posted 200+ pictures

Tavares, FL March 25, 2019 Pictures by Vance Jochim of FiscalRangers.com You can see all the pictures of the March 22-24, 2019 event organized by the Sunnyland Chapter of the Antique & Classic Boat Association at this Facebook album link: Read more →

Lessons Learned - What happens when a school's staff suspend students with a MAGA sweatshirt

Two girls at a school in Arizona were wearing MAGA sweatshirts and taking pictures on campus. The school resource officer reported them and after the mother arrived, the Principal put them on 10 day suspension. Then the free speech lawyers got involved. There are several law centers now suing schools for political bias (or religious bias like making students learn Islam rituals). https://adflegal.org/detailspages/blog-details/allianceedge/2019/03/08/punished-for-wearing-maga-sweatshirt-at-school-find-out-how-this-student-responded?sourcecode=10003645&id=3 And this story made it into a national conservative website: https://pjmedia.com/trending/high-school-student-suspended-for-posing-with-pro-trump-maga-flag-and-sweatshirt/ Notice this story was also picked up by a pro-Israeli news website: https://www.theisraelwire.com/2019/03/23/girls-wear-pro-trump-maga-sweatshirts-to-school-get-10-day-suspension.html?fbclid=IwAR36YyoY9y7-FA8Ar-PQdRWaXoihOY7htC8gZV-1ujvaPWuCpcqljnF0cyA And, here is another site that published the story: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/high-school-girls-wear-maga-sweatshirts-get-10-day-suspension Read more →

Insider analysis of Common Core damage to teachers as well as students

Here is an insider expose of how bad Common Core is. Sandra Stotsky, former senior associate commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, is professor of education emerita at the University of Arkansas, and she was on the original Common Core validation Committee and refused to sign off the standards. She continues to point out all the major failures of Common Core. This is why the Lake County School Board and Administrators need to issue an ethics statement that reverses all the components of Common Core. https://newbostonpost.com/2019/02/20/how-common-core-is-destroying-training-of-teachers/?fbclid=IwAR3bZhk0cy4HbNRTQ1CpR35arr1s4tU7oag-zojvqoypq6ya-iF5RRAp7BI Read more →

Here is a proposed K-12 Ethics statement for teachers which was a proposed bill in Maine

The Ethics statement for teachers says what I have been preaching - LCSD needs a mission statement prohibiting political or religious bias in classrooms, textbooks, etc. "The following Code of Ethics for K-12 teachers (in Maine) forbids teachers from using their classrooms for political, ideological, or religious advocacy. Teachers in violation of the Code would be subject to penalties such as probation, suspension and loss of their teaching licenses. " https://www.stopk12indoctrination.org/k-12-code-of-ethics It was actually proposed as a bill in Maine, but didn't get out of committee, but it galvanized conservative parents so they have now setup a MainFirstProject.org group to expand efforts on this and other conservative issues. Here are a couple articles by the Maine bill's author, a conservative state Representative. https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273149/maine-k-12-indoctrination-sparks-populist-push-lawrence-lockman?fbclid=IwAR134nsQ_0R5N5XqZrL0KFBRb3DPrUPsUgM8tyJuVN8_eocyWT7Q-1--AII#.XI8SAFA57IQ.gmail https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273091/battle-against-leftist-indoctrination-public-matthew-vadum Lake County Board members and administration should consider adopting such an ethics statement for teachers to provide clarity for conservative parents before they remove their kids from Lake County public schools. Read more →

Federal & Florida ADA Compliance laws are wrecking local government transparency and incurring huge costs

Tavares, FL March 11, 2019 Federal and Florida regulations on compliance with the American Disabilities Act (ADA) are causing excess costs and reduced public transparency over local government meeting videos, agendas, budgets and even annual financial reports (CAFR's). Essentially, some scummy lawyers found that ADA requirements can be interpreted to require that any local government has to provide online information in a format that can be read by ADA software tools used by the disabled, such as vision limited or hearing limited. Apparently, the tools use screen "scanning" to find text or picture captions that can then be converted to audio so the disabled can "read" or "hear" the online information. We wrote an earlier story about this in January 2019 HERE, after the Orlando Sentinel published a story about it. It contains more about the scummy lawsuits, so I did not repeat it here. The Jan. 6, 2019 Orlando Sentinel story is here. And very few local governments have the funds to revamp their websites and file systems to comply with the lawsuit demands. Now, a city like Orlando could afford to get the software and modify all their files so they can be read by the ADA tools,... Read more →

Liberals are using children's books to indoctrinate them on political agendas

Liberals are intentionally publishing biased children's books to indoctrinate them on political agendas. Read more →

My immediate comments about today's workshop while watching via LIVE video

I wrote these comments live as I watched the March 4th, 2019 Lake County School Board workshop meeting video. The 3+ hour workshop covered two main topics: - Review of the Altoona charter school renewal and issues. - Update by the staff of the "Care Here Wellness Centers" about the costs and operations of the four FREE LCSD employee clinics they manage. I started mid-way through the Altoona charter school presentation: The March 4th workshop agenda and powerpoints are on the Board Docs site HERE. The 3+ hour video should soon be on the YouTube channel HERE! - Good idea to use the picture in picture video feature, but LCSD needs standards for presentations to STOP using tiny text that is unreadable. Also, maximize the slide for readability and move the picture of talking people into a corner. - Can someone just give Attorney Johnson a lavalier or headphone mic because he constantly forgets to use the one there? I would hate to miss his shared wisdom. Make that a requirement in his contract. - Watching the grilling of this small charter, I am reminded of when I audited 40+ manufacturing plants. It was clear the small plants didn't have... Read more →