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	Podcast:		Capital Report
	Episode:		Capital Report: 11-04-2019
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:28:58
	Publish Date:		2019-11-01 00:00:00
	Description:		Earlier this year, it was confirmed voting systems in two Florida counties had been hacked during the 2016 election. Tom Flanigan reports state and federal authorities have announced new safeguards to prevent that happening in 2020. When he took office, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis set his sights on weeding out common core in K-12 education. Now, the governor says its replacement standards will be rolled out soon. Ryan Dailey reports in the meantime, ‘the Nation’s Report Card’ shows reading proficiency in the state has fallen in the past two years. Florida is near the bottom in the nation when it comes to teacher pay. Governor Ron DeSantis wants to change that by raising the base salary. But the state’s largest teacher union says the governor’s plans don’t go far enough. Blaise Gainey has the story. NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast recently celebrated its fourth anniversary, and the radio show is now two years old. We regularly hear the host, Shankar Vedantam (SHAHNker veh-DAHN-tum), on
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