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FSBA President Says “Accountability Should Not Create Turmoil”
The Florida School Boards Association has emerged as a serious opponent of state legislators and the test-dominated accountability systems they’ve imposed. Orlando Sentinel editorial writer Darrel. E. Owens had several key questions for the new president of the FSBA: Florida Education … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, charter schools, charter schools in florida, common core standards, education, education reform, FCAT, Florida, florida education, florida republicans, Florida School Board Association, Florida schools, Florida students, FSBA, Gerard Robinson, high stakes testing, Jeb Bush, joie cadle, school grades, testing
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Indian River SB Member Assails Ed Commish Robinson, Calls for Return of Local Control
Reminding readers that Florida’s education commissioner Gerard Robinson is an “appointed” official, Indian River school board member Claudia Jimenez supported her board’s passage of a Resolution on High-Stakes Testing. She concluded her opinion piece in TCPalm this way: The cumbersome … Continue reading
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Tagged citrus county, claudia jimenez, DOE, education reform, Florida, Florida Board of Education, florida education, florida education reform bill, florida school reform bill, Florida schools, Florida students, FSBA, Gerard Robinson, high stakes testing, Indian river county, natonal resolution on high stakes testing, pat deutschman, republicans, schools, testing
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Will One Flagler School Board Election Serve As a Referendum On Resolution Against High-Stakes Testing?
Flagler county school board member, Colleen Conklin, has been one voices Floridians have been hearing from longest who raised warnings on the direction Florida lawmakers were taking the state’s schools. With the Flagler board’s cost-saving decision to cut the school day … Continue reading
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Tagged Colleen Conklin, county, Deborah Laury, education, education reform, FCAT, FCAT Writes, Flagler schools, Florida, florida education, florida education reform bill, florida governor, florida republicans, florida school reform bill, FSBA, high stakes testing, National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing, Resolution on High Stakes Tests, school board, standardized test scores, standardized tests, test, testing, tests
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Gerard Robinson Repeats Scott’s Evasive Talking Points on High-Stakes Testing
From Florida Times-Union reporter, Kristopher J. Brooks: Florida’s top education official told a Jacksonville audience Tuesday that he knows changes in statewide testing have been a headache for local educators, but tweaking the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test was necessary. “We … Continue reading
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Tagged common core standards, DOE, education reform, FCAT, Florida, Florida Board of Education, florida education, florida education reform bill, florida governor, florida republicans, florida school reform bill, Florida schools, Florida students, FSBA, Gerard Robinson, high-stakes test, Jeb Bush, joie cadle, National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing, rick scott, school grades, testing
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Why Resolution on High-Stakes Tests Was Necessary in Florida: “No Evidence Legislative Pipeline Will Bring Relief”
The Bradenton Times has a comprehensive story this morning titled, “High-Stakes Testing Resistance Spreads Across Florida.” Highlighting Manatee county’s decision, the Times has this: In Florida, more than a dozen countywide school committees serving three-quarters of a million students endorsed the National … Continue reading
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Tagged bradenton, charter schools, charter schools in florida, DOE, education, education reform, FairTest, FCAT, Florida, florida education, florida education reform bill, florida school reform bill, Florida schools, FSBA, high-stakes test, Jeb Bush, Manatee, National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing, Parent trigger, school boards, testing
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Marion County School Board Passes Resolution on “Extensive” Testing
I hope Marion board member Ron Crawford wasn’t bowing to pressure and insisted on changing “high-stakes” to “extensive” in his board’s resolution on testing. It offers undeserved cover for Florida’s be-all, end-all test regime which prompted the state-wide movement. Moral … Continue reading
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Tagged DOE, education, education reform, FCAT, Florida, Florida Board of Education, florida education, florida education reform bill, florida school reform bill, FSBA, high stakes testing, Marion, National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing, school board, school grades, teachers, testing
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Seminole, Volusia to Join Resolution on High-Stakes Testing
From Dave Weber of the Orlando Sentinel: The Seminole School Board is expected to add it’s endorsement to an anti-testing resolution that is gaining momentum across the state. The board will vote tonight on backing a resolution by the Florida … Continue reading
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Tagged common core standards, DOE, education, education reform, FCAT, Florida, florida education, florida education reform bill, florida school reform bill, Florida schools, Florida students, florida teachers, FSBA, high stakes, high stakes testing, National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing, resolution, school board, school reform, schools, Seminole, teachers, testing, tests, volusia county
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Lake, Lee County School Boards Support Resolutions On High-Stakes Testing
On Lake County from the Orlando Sentinel’s Erica Rodriguez: Lake County School Board members said Monday they want to support a resolution aimed at getting Florida to examine and revise its accountability system. The resolution, supported by the Florida School … Continue reading
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Tagged boards, common core standards, county, education, education reform, FCAT, Florida, florida education reform bill, florida school reform bill, Florida schools, FSBA, high stakes testing, Lake, Lee, National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing, resolution, school, school board, testing
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Taking Up the Jeb Bush Gang of Five On Their Offer to “Talk About FCAT”
Last week’s decision by Florida House Speaker-in-waiting Will Weatherford to put his name on an op-ed in support of Florida oppression test regime, increased the number to five of Jeb Bush loyalists attempting to defend what essentially is Bush’s education … Continue reading
FSBA Resolution Includes Elimination of Standardized Tests as “Primary Basis for Evaluating Teachers”
From Jeff Solocheck at GRADEBOOK: Rather than simply adopting a national resolution against states’ reliance on high-stakes testing, the Florida School Boards Association today will take up its own Florida-centered version of the concept. It points out specific concerns with … Continue reading
