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This thesis evaluates how equitably market efficiency education reforms deliver the public good of education. It critiques extreme market education initiatives for prioritizing efficiency above equality and for neglecting matters of equality, and then conducts a case study on the McKay Scholarship Program, a voucher designed for students with disabilities, evaluating the program against a framework of educational equality. Overall, study finds that this voucher program seriously neglects its students equality, comments on the challenges of efficiency-based reforms being able to equitably distribute public goods such as education and calls for further research to be done on this issue.

by Carolyn Kindell / Typescript / M.S. Florida State University 1993 / Includes bibliographical references

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Orange County, Florida, through its Sewer and Water Department, own fifty active and ten inactive water treatment plants. These treatment plants have a total of ninety-four supply wells, sixty-four of which are actually in service. Most of these wells were obtained through purchase from private or investor owned utility companies. A file search was undertaken from records of the Orange County Sewer and Water Department, U.S. Geological Survey, former water system owners, and well drillers in order to compile all available information on these wells. Information was gathered on location, original drilling of the well, static water level and pumping tests, chemical and bacteriological quality of the water, and most recent pump, motor and auxiliary engine. This information was recorded on a date form for each well, with the well geographically categorized into five areas throughout the County. For each geographical area, mean, high and low values were determined for well and casing depth; static water level; well flow, specific pumping capacity and other flow type parameters; and various water quality parameters, such as total dissolved solids, chloride, sulfide, iron, alkalinity, and hardness concentrations. These were then compared to each other to see if any patterns could be established for wells in various areas of the County. Comparisons were also made to recorded piezometric surface levels of the Floridan Aquifer and to information in available literature on wells in the Orange County area. The comparisons indicated wells were slightly shallower in the wester part of the County than in the eastern part. Depth to static water level generally increased as you progressed from east to west, with the highest MSL elevations occurring in the southwest. Specific well capacity was greatest in the westerly area. Total dissolved solids content of the wells was much higher than that predicted by the literature, and hardness, iron and sulfide values were higher in the east than in the west.

In large enough quantities, heavy metals may be detrimental to human health. Metals in raw water may pass through a water treatment plant without being completely removed. Once in a the distribution system, the water may experience metal pick-up due to corrosion. During the course of this study, an attempt was made to determine the heavy metal concentrations in the University of Central Florida's potable water systems. Samples were fun on the plasma spectrophotometer, Spectraspan III, and analyzed for heavy metal content. The results indicate pick-up of Fe, Al, Cu, and Zn in the distribution system. The arsenic and lead concentrations in the drinking water samples should be verified. The UCF sewage treatment plant offers adequate heavy metal removal with the metal ions being removed concentrating in the activated sludge.

Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) eggs were collected at the time of laying during the summer of 1977 on the beaches of Canaveral National Seashore and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Brevard County, Florida. The eggs were placed in land-lines buckets and maintained at ambient temperature in a house trailer hatchery. After 50 to 55 days of incubation whole or partial clutches were transferred to glass observation containers and covered to a depth of 20 cm. Hatching and emergence behavior were visually observed and activity was timed on an event recorder that was activated by four motion switches placed within or above the clutch. Pipping of the eggs occurred at a mean of 60.5 days after egg deposition. Emergence occurred at a mean of 61.8 hours after pipping and 63.1 days after egg deposition. The hatching and emergence sequence was described. It was concluded that hatching and emergence were socially facilitated. A mechanism for socially facilitated hatching was proposed. Volumetric reduction of the nest behavior before or during pipping was described. Emergence may be inhibited by rising temperatures in the morning and stimulated by falling temperatures within a certain range at night. Social facilitation, in addition to the obvious value of providing a means for reaching the surface, was apparently advantageous to hatchlings as they emerged and raced towards the surf en masse. Under these conditions predators are likely to be efficient than they would be if hatchlings emerged singly.

The objectives of this report was to study the existing literature and data of residential graywater treatment and disposal systems and their possible applications and environmental impacts in Florida. The report addresses mainly (1) the definition of graywater quantity and quality, (2) the evaluation of proposed graywater treatment systems for possible reuse and disposal, (3) the impact of residential graywater systems on existing and proposed wastewater treatment plants, and (4) the possible impacts on groundwater and surface water environment. The report also presents some preliminary residential graywater treatment and disposal system designs including expected treatment efficiencies and cost. It should be cautioned that the proposed designs and efficiencies are based on limited operational or test data, and a great amount of field data was obtained for blackwater septic tanks. Finally, it recommended that additional laboratory, field and operational testing is required to evaluate system design parameters and possible environmental impacts for the Florida Environment.