Florida: A State Senator’s Sweet Deal

by E Wayne Ross on March 24, 2008

Inside Higher Ed: A State Senator’s Sweet Deal

Evelyn J. Lynn has spent much of her professional career as an educator, putting in 30 years as a teacher and administrator in the schools of Florida’s Volusia County and earning a doctorate in instructional leadership and administration from the University of Florida. So it’s no stunner that when Florida State University sought someone to help get a new outreach center for its Florida Center for Reading Research on Lynn’s home turf of Daytona Beach, they hired her for the nearly $120,000 position, which she began in September.