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Florida Media Finally Shines the Light on Voucher, Charter School and Online Education Money in Florida Politics
The narrative the Florida media is advancing on education policy has changed. And not in a way which is favorable for the state’s education power brokers. Jeff Solochek published a column in the Tampa Bay Times on the last day … Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, FLORIDA POLITICS
Tagged Andy Ford, charter schools, charter schools in florida, education, education reform, FEA, Florida, florida education reform bill, florida republicans, florida school reform bill, Florida schools, Florida students, john kirtley, teacher unions, Vouchers
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The Visions of Common Core Standards Which Dance in the Heads Florida’s Leaders Doesn’t Snuff Out the Reality of More Tests
Associated Press reporter Bill Kaczor takes a comprehensive look at Florida’s transition to national Common Core Standards. Interim state education commissioner Pam Stewart glows predictably as Common Core “is about the skills required in Florida.” This description by Kaczor sums up why … Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, FLORIDA POLITICS
Tagged acountability, Andy Ford, common core standards, education, education reform, FCAT, FEA, Florida, florida education, Florida schools, Florida students, florida teachers, high stakes testing, pam stewart, sb736, school grades, teacher evaluations, teacher unions, teachers, testing
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Parents, Teachers Put Scott, Board of Ed and Bennett On Notice
The state’s established parent groups – including the PTA – began signaling the day before Tony Bennett’s appointment as Florida’s new education commissioner that the BOE’s selection of candidates promised to be so divisive that it would assign them as … Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, FLORIDA POLITICS
Tagged charter schools, charter schools in florida, DOE, education, education reform, FEA, Florida, Florida Board of Education, florida education, florida governor, Florida schools, high stakes testing, Kathleen Shanahan, National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing, parent groups, PTA, rick scott, school grades, teacher unions, testing, tony bennett
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Bush Policy Aviser Mocked for “Most Compellingly Lousy Education Research of the Past Year”
Matt Lander, a key policy and research aid to Jeb Bush, referred to “teachers and their unions” to Hitler’s forces in an ALEC paper this summer. His intellectually flawed and dishonest work received just due this week. rom Teresa Stepzinski in … Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, FLORIDA POLITICS
Tagged charter schools, charter schools in florida, DOE, education, education reform, FEA, Florida, Florida Board of Education, florida education, florida education reform bill, florida school reform bill, Jeb Bush, matt ladner, Patricia Levesque, school reform, teacher unions, teachers
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FEA Files Complaint Against State Board of Education on SB 736
From Jeff Solochek in Gradebook: The Florida Education Association is contending that the state Board of Education hasn’t created appropriate rules to do the lawmakers’ will. “We believe they’ve written it in such a way that no one really can … Continue reading
The Moms Who Defeated the Jeb Bush-Michelle Rhee Machine
Writes Kathleen McGrory in the Miami Herald: It was one of the session’s hardest-fought battles. On one side: a coalition of disparate, but determined parent groups. On the other: former Gov. Jeb Bush and the powerful school-choice lobby. With the … Continue reading
Finally Unmasking a Two-Year Deception: Florida Republicans Never Intended to Fund Merit Pay
The Palm Beach Post’s editorial page editor, Randy Schultz, has joined the drum line across the state in excoriating Florida’s republican policy-makers on just about every issue on education. But Schultz is onto to the fact that state republicans never intended to fund its own merit … Continue reading
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Tagged appropriations, DOE, education, FEA, florida republicans, Florida schools, Gerard Robinson, merit pay, race to the top, sb736, steve wise, unfunded mandates, Will Weatherford
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Judge Tosses Republican’s “Amibiguous and Misleading” Amendment 7 and Back-Channel Voucher Scheme
Judge Terry Lewis agreed with the FEA and found ballot initiative, Amendment 7 to be “ambiguous and misleading.” Its in his opinion in the last link. In what most folks sniffed out as a another back channel attempt by Florida’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Blaine Amendment, education, FEA, Florida, florida education, Florida schools, Jeb Bush, Vouchers
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Why Rick Scott’s Education Budget Proposal is Just the Latest Republican Bait and Switch
From FEA director Andy Ford: When he was running for governor, Rick Scott promised not to cut funding for public education. Once elected, however, he presided over a budget that slashed education by nearly 8 percent, took 3 percent out … Continue reading
So that Florida DOE Cash for Charter Schools is Coming from Race to the Top Funds
The Florida DOE’s announcement that it would apply $2o million toward charter school start-ups drew significant condemnation here. Now comes word where the money is coming from. In a weekend interview with the leader of the Florida Charter School Growth … Continue reading
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Tagged Broad Academy, Broad Foundation, Charter School Growth Fund, charter schools, charter schools in florida, Darryl Cobb, DOE, education, education reform, FEA, Florida, Florida Board of Education, Florida schools, Jeb Bush, Patricia Levesque, race to the top, RTTT, steve wise
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