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How Two Wealthy Floridians Spent $2 Million During the 2014 Cycle to Control Education Legislation
On Friday Step Up for Students blog, redefinED, published a story about this year’s bill from the Florida House which SUFS writer Travis Pillow describes as a “funding” and “accountability’ bill: Florida charter schools could face more scrutiny from school districts, … Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, Florida, FLORIDA POLITICS
Tagged American Federartion for Children, charter schools, charter schools in florida, Charter Schools USA, Florida Federation for Children, florida republicans, Florida schools, Florida students, HB 7037, john kirtley, Republican Party of Florida, RPOF, Step Up For Students, SUFS
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Step Up for Students Misquotes Broward SB Member in Pro-Charter School Propaganda Hit Job
The Step Up for Students employees who write for their redefinED blog usually don’t take quotes out of context to engage in political hackery, but they have now. Lets track the anatomy of a social media hit. At 630 AM this … Continue reading
Was “Hacktivism” Behind the Denial of Service Attack on Florida’s Testing Contractor?
Last week’s denial of service hack on AIR, the contractor which administrates Florida’s new FSA tests took the state’s long and controversial testing saga to a place which no one really expected. With news that a similar attack took down … Continue reading
Another Florida Legislative Session, Another Ethics Problem For a Republican Cashing in on Education Dollars
Powerful House education chair Rep. Marlene O’Toole (Lady Lakes-The Villages) complemented education commissioner Pam Stewart last week for her handling of FSA testing drama. She later counseled fellow lawmakers to not over react to complaints about it. Florida republican legislators … Continue reading
When Jeb Bush Let His Own Charter School Fail
In a stunning letter to the editor of the Miami Herald, the former administrative assistant to the principal of Liberty City School tells the tragic story of the rise and fall of an inner city charter school. Alicia Banuchi writes: Michael … Continue reading
Revisiting Gary Chartrand’s Conflicts of Interests
Florida Times-Union reporter Rhema Thompson has an excellent feature on the chairman of state board of education, Gary Chartrand and his many conflicts of interests which Floridians are expected to just brush aside: With his official term as chairman of … Continue reading
Look How Easily a Take on Charter Schools From New Zealand Models Florida
From New Zealand online news aggregate Voxy.co.nz: In the USA, scandal after scandal has swept charter schools: poor teaching, poor facilities, financial scams, corruption, profiteering, abrupt closures of failed schools, political patronage, abuse…. Almost everything that could go wrong in … Continue reading
The Fatal Flaws of Rick Scott and Jeb Bush’s Tests: Florida Kids Aren’t College Ready
As former Florida governor Jeb Bush has been anointed king of kings on education policy and is now doing TV spots to save Rick Scott’s reelection bid, its only fair to include his name in such headlines. But the well-financed … Continue reading
Posted in Charlie Crist, Common Core, EDUCATION, FLORIDA POLITICS, Jeb Bush, Rick Scott
Tagged accountability, Charlie Crist, charter schools in florida, common core standards, education reform, FCAT, Florida, florida education, florida governor, florida republicans, Florida schools, florida teachers, high stakes testing, Jeb Bush, tea party, testing
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Revisiting Rick Scott’s Charter School Crony Capitalism
Imagine Charter Schools boss Dennis Bakke was one of three charter school executives named to Rick Scott’s education transition team in 2010. The make-up of Scott’s team signaled that Scott was going nuclear on public schools. Only one representative of public … Continue reading
Posted in charter schools, EDUCATION, Florida, FLORIDA POLITICS, Rick Scott
Tagged Academica, charter schools, charter schools in florida, Charter Schools USA, Dennis Bakke, education, education reform, florida education, florida republicans, Fordham, Imagine Charter Schools, Jonathan Hage, privatization, rick scott, school reform, StudentsFirst, testing, tony bennett, Zulueta
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Charter Schools’ USA Hillsborough Facililities Will Not Be Shuttered This Year…But
From Marlene Sokol in the Tampa Bay Times: TAMPA — Responding to concerned parents who learned last week that the Hillsborough County school district is challenging the legality of three charter schools, Superintendent MaryEllen Elia assured them Thursday that the … Continue reading
