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Florida Gov. Rick Scott: Keep Common Core, retreat on PARCC

Common Core is okay. But the new, multi-state tests aligned to them may have to go. So suggests Florida Gov. Rick...

Seminole Indian charter school gives students the best of both worlds

Enter Central Florida’s Brighton Indian Reservation, past cattle fields and citrus groves, and it doesn’t take long to understand the...

Sherri Ackerman

Florida schools roundup: Common Core, PARCC, achievement gap & more

Common Core: "I completely agree with former Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and bipartisan leaders across...

Sherri Ackerman

redefinED roundup: charter school growth in N.C., legal battle in Alabama, Condoleezza Rice & more

Alabama: The state files documents to dismiss the Southern Poverty Law Center's suit against the new school choice program (Al.com)....

reimaginED staff

Mr. Gibbons' Report Card: Loch Ness monster, DOJ spreadsheets & more

We're trying something new today: an occasional report card that offers a quick analysis of education reform news from around...

Patrick R. Gibbons

Florida schools roundup: PARCC, Pam Stewart, teacher raises & more

School counselors: Palm Beach County elementary school counselors learn a new curriculum aimed at fourth- and fifth-graders called "Breaking The Silence: Teaching the...

Sherri Ackerman

A closer look at cherry pickin’ – and who’s doing it

Charter schools are often accused of cherry picking students by expelling the lowest performers – a misleading claim I wrote...

Patrick R. Gibbons

Florida schools roundup: Jeb Bush, Rick Scott, Common Core & more

Common Core: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush confronts criticism of Common Core, blasting it as "purely political.'' The Buzz. Florida Gov. Rick...

Sherri Ackerman

Scholarship student & dad overcome struggles, graduate together

On graduation day 2013 for Franklin Academy in Tallahassee, the sanctuary at Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church was packed with 1,500...

Florida schools roundup: Pam Stewart, Rick Scott, teacher raises & more

Education Commissioner: Florida Board of Education leaders appoint interim Commissioner Pam Stewart to the permanent post. The Buzz. Outgoing board member Kathleen...

Sherri Ackerman

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