Cost of education comes with strings attached

Florida Keys News - Key West Citizen

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Cost of education comes with strings attached

BY TIMOTHY O'HARA Citizen Staff
tohara@keysnews.com

The idea of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District paying for its employees to receive advanced degrees was greeted with skepticism by the Key West Chamber of Commerce and some members of the district's board when it was first proposed in September.

Outside of the cost, a main sticking point was that district policy only requires employees to stay 18 months after earning...

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Why does what Virginia think have anything

Submitted on Tue, 11/13/2012 - 7:18pm by trapper

to do with the Mosquito boards function ?

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Qualified for the job?

Submitted on Tue, 11/13/2012 - 9:28am by Fairvalues

If the job requires an MBA, or a Doctorate then save the money and hire someone with those degrees. If the employees are already doing their jobs without these degrees adequately then why pay them roughly $10,000 a year additional. If they want the degrees then they can do like everyone else and pay for them.