Florida roundup: Security jitters, charter school funding, race-based academic goals & more
Race-based achievement goals. Florida voters don’t like them, according to a new Quinnipiac poll, but … how much of that...
Read More >Florida roundup: Bulletproof backpacks, charter school standards, second thoughts on teacher evaluations & more
Tweaks coming to teacher evals? Gradebook: “Patricia Levesque, executive director of Jeb Bush's education foundation and a key voice in...
Read More >Florida roundup: Bullets on buses, STEM pitch, school district marketing & more
More on school security in Newtown aftermath. Miami Herald. South Florida Sun Sentinel. Orlando Sentinel. Florida Times Union. Florida Today....
Read More >There’s more to the story about education reform in Florida
Tony Bennett has a tough, tough job ahead, and the way education in Florida is covered is not going to...
Read More >Florida roundup: Tony Bennett, voucher testing, Newtown reverberations & more
Not the best fit. Andy Ford, president of the Florida teachers union, says in this Q&A with the Orlando Sentinel...
Read More >Florida roundup: school safety, voucher conspiracies, school district spending & more
Newtown school shooting resonates. In added security and what to say.Tampa Tribune. Palm Beach Post. Tampa Bay Times. $1 million...
Read More >Florida roundup: Homeschooling, voucher accountability & doubling down on reform
Vouchers and accountability. Gov. Rick Scott’s call for “voucher” students to take the same standardized tests as public school students...
Read More >Gov. Rick Scott: parental school choice "makes everybody better"
It's not news that Florida Gov. Rick Scott is a strong supporter of parental school choice. But some of his...
Read More >Florida roundup: More PIRLS, more Tony Bennett, more testing and vouchers
Basking in the glow. Interim education commissioner Pam Stewart touts the PIRLS results on CNN. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan...
Read More >Tony Bennett, Florida's new education chief, on testing, teacher evals and school choice as social justice
Within minutes of his selection as Florida’s next education commissioner this morning, Tony Bennett was in the midst of his...
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