Magnet schools. Broward officials consider making some programs all-choice. Sun-Sentinel. School choice. Marion schools move to a new open-enrollment policy. Ocala Star-Banner. PLSAs. A family explains how Florida’s new Personal Learning Scholarship Accounts will help them educate their daughter. EdFly. The program is administered by scholarship funding organizations like Step up For Students, which co-hosts this… Read more »
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Florida schools roundup: Lawsuits, rankings, teacher pay and more
Lawsuits. The Florida Education Association says it will drop one of its school choice lawsuits. Associated Press. News Service of Florida. Palm Beach Post. Saint Petersblog. Scripps/Tribune. Times/Herald. redefinED. Rankings. A change in criteria sends Florida tumbling in Education Week‘s Quality Counts rankings. redefinED. Tampa Bay Times. Orlando Sentinel. Tampa Tribune. Palm Beach Post. Associated Press. Gradebook. StateImpact. WFSU. US News & World Report. Charter schools. South Florida lawmakers file… Read more »
Florida is and isn’t Top 10 in latest Education Week rankings
After a strong run of top-tier showings, Florida public schools are No. 28 in the latest overall rankings from Education Week, but continue to place in the Top 10 in academic achievement. Education Week moved to a slimmed-down version of its annual “Quality Counts” analysis this year, after not giving overall grades or ranks to… Read more »
Florida roundup: Lawsuits, private schools, teacher evaluation and more
Lawsuits. Tax credit scholarship parents want a lawsuit challenging their program dismissed. redefinED. The program is administered by Step Up For Students, which co-hosts this blog. Watchdog.org looks at the dismissal of Florida’s other school choice lawsuit, which could still be appealed. Private schools. A former teacher of the year visits a Manatee Episcopal school…. Read more »
Florida roundup: School choice, charter schools, Common Core and more
Note: Today’s roundup is longer than usual. It includes noteworthy Florida education news, blog and opinion pieces that appeared during our holiday break. Our Florida roundups are returning to their usual Monday-through-Friday schedule. Lawsuits. A lawsuit challenging Florida school choice legislation is dismissed. Associated Press. Miami Herald. Education Week. News Service of Florida. Palm Beach Post. Capitol News Service. WFSU. Fort Myers News-Press. redefinED…. Read more »
Raoul Cantero on the legal landscape for school choice scholarships
The Florida Supreme Court overturned the state’s first K-12 voucher program in 2006, but that decision “does not and should not apply” to the state’s tax credit scholarship program, which is now under legal attack by the Florida teachers union and Florida School Boards Association, former Florida Supreme Court Justice Raoul Cantero said last week…. Read more »
Public boarding school plants seeds of hope, high expectations
Antanarie Edge almost missed the chance she was hoping for. There were 60 slots for the first sixth-grade class at Florida’s first and only public boarding school, The SEED School of Miami, but 104 students had applied. When the school held a lottery to see who would get in, Antanarie was not among the lucky… Read more »
Charter school for migrant children grows hope, devotion, results
After graduating from high school, Filiberto Gorosquieta was working for his cousin’s company, hauling tents to outdoor parties. College wasn’t on the radar. But then he took a job assisting after-school programs at a local charter school in Immokalee, Fla. Something clicked. Now Gorosquieta is a teacher’s assistant at Immokalee Community School, working mostly with… Read more »
Florida schools roundup: Lawsuits, testing, career education and more
Lawsuits. A judge decides parents of children on Florida tax credit scholarships can have the status of a full-blown party to a lawsuit challenging the program’s constitutionality. redefinED. News Service of Florida. Palm Beach Post. Times/Herald. The program is administered by organizations like Step Up For Students, which co-hosts this blog. Career education. A collaborative effort between… Read more »
FL teachers union calls tax credit scholarship “replacement” for vouchers
In the latest filing in a lawsuit challenging Florida’s tax credit scholarship program, lawyers for the statewide teachers union double down on their assertion that the scholarship is no different than a voucher program the Florida Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in 2006. The document, filed just before the Thanksgiving holiday, comes in response to the… Read more »
