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SAT scores dip, teacher pay and bonuses, school officer fired for arrests and more

SAT scores down: The average Florida 2019 high school graduate scored 999 points out of a possible 1600 on the SAT test, according to the College Board, down from 1014 a year ago. The average math score for Florida students was 483, compared to the national average of 528, and the average reading score was... Read more »

Proof of courses, district paying ransom, VAM ratings, grade-changing and more

Proof of courses: The Florida Board of Education has adopted a rule that requires all school districts to inform it what courses they'll offer to meet the state law mandating instruction on more than 20 subjects, and even who teaches them and how they're being taught. The change was prompted after a Palm Beach County... Read more »

Success Academy made low-income kids champions — knowing you’d curse them for it

Robert Pondiscio has stirred up a hornet’s nest with his new book How the Other Half Learns about a year he spent embedded in a New York City Success Academy. Success Academy gets phenomenal results, not just in comparison to neighboring high poverty schools, but also in comparison to New York’s leafy suburbs. Pondiscio, however,… Read more »

Virtual school leaders, active-shooter drills, homeless students, health issues and more

Virtual school leadership: The Florida Virtual School, which was taken over by the state earlier this year, has hired four executives who have little education experience but deep ties to state Republican leaders and legislators, according to the school's hiring documents. All four were hired outside the outside the online public school’s traditional interviewing process,... Read more »

Early education emphasis, suit over sales tax vote, school security funds and more

Early education emphasis: The chair of the Florida House Education Committee says pre-kindergarten and early education will be priorities for the legislative session that begins Jan. 14. The state has already revised the formula for rating preschools after Gov. Ron DeSantis said too many children were not ready for kindergarten, and Rep. Jennifer Sullivan, R-Mount... Read more »

Armed teachers, mental services funding, cancer lessons, transcript delays and more

Arming teachers: The director of the state's Office of Safe Schools tells the Senate Education Committee that 11 school districts have asked for the option of arming teachers, though he doesn't know how many of them have followed through with implementation. Damien Kelly says 1,084 school guardians have been assigned to schools, but he doesn't... Read more »

Runcie’s review, concerns about special education, storm struggles and more

Superintendent's review: Broward County School District Superintendent Robert Runcie gets his worst review ever from a school board divided over his handling of the Feb. 14, 2018, shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Four of the members graded Runcie between mediocre and awful, and three gave him high marks. Overall, Runcie received a grade... Read more »

Blaine, Blaine go away

In the next judicial session, the U.S. Supreme Court will have the opportunity to right institutionalized bigotry against religious groups in Espinoza vs. the Montana Department of Revenue case. We Americans have a real talent for making straightforward things complicated. A case in point: The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution reads, “Congress shall make… Read more »

Tweaking school guardian law, districts’ budgets, 20-year education plan and more

Security in schools: Senate President Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, wants the Legislature to tweak the school safety law to clarify how school guardians should be trained. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office recently had to retrain guardians for the school district's charter schools because the sheriff said the training provided by a private company was inadequate.... Read more »

Student records access, ransomware attack, budgets, LGBTQ plan and more

Audit raps records access: An analysis of audits in the past two years by the Florida Auditor General suggests that two-thirds of the state's school districts, colleges and universities are giving unnecessary access to students' Social Security numbers. The audits of 50 K-12 school districts, 25 colleges and 10 universities revealed that at least a... Read more »

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