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October 15, 2013

What’s In A Name? Florida Board Of Education Wrestles With What To Call “Common Core”

In all the attention surrounding the Common Core hearings Florida is holding this week, it would have been easy to miss a curious exchange at Tuesday’s State Board of Education meeting. Going into the meeting, some of the most-watched items included a vote on whether or not Florida should extend a safety-net that prevents schools […]

Ten Posts Explaining Florida’s Debate Over Common Core Education Standards

The Florida Department of Education will hold the first of three public meetings to discuss multi-state math, literacy and English standards known as Common Core in Tampa this evening. Florida is one of 45 state to fully adopt the standards. The standards outline what students should know at the end of each grade, and to […]

October 14, 2013

Help Us Out: How Are You Talking To Young People About Sea Level Rise?

The sea levels are rising in Florida—nine inches in the past hundred years and a lot more projected for the next hundred years. StateImpact Florida is working with WLRN-Miami Herald News on Elevation Zero, a special series focused on how the state is dealing with rising seas. And we want to know: What does sea level rise […]

October 8, 2013

New Technology Making It Harder For Florida Schools To Track Bullying

Florida schools are running into a handful of problems as they try to carry out the state’s new law targeting online or electronic bullying, according to testimony at a Senate committee meeting today. Florida lawmakers approved HB 609 in May. The bill defines online, or cyber, bullying, and allows school districts to investigate if off-campus […]

Common Core Critics “Deeply Disappointed” By Florida Hearings

Florida’s Common Core hearings aren’t until next week, but the criticism has already started. In September, Gov. Rick Scott asked Florida to sever its financial ties to a consortium of states–the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC–that’s developing a new assessment based on Common Core standards. At the time, Scott said […]

October 7, 2013

Why Common Core Could Mean Less Tinkering With Florida Schools

Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell made an interesting argument over the weekend in favor of Florida’s new Common Core English, literacy and math standards: it will hinder state leaders when they try to tinker with schools. Maxwell wrote his column as an open letter. He said he no longer trusts Florida leaders about education after […]

October 4, 2013

Jacksonville Discusses Changing KKK-Affiliated Name Of School

The movement to change the name of Jacksonville’s Nathan B. Forrest High School—a school named for a confederate general and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan—got another hearing last night. On Thursday Jason Fischer, a Duval County School Board member, ended a town hall meeting about school board budgets by inviting comments on Forrest. Cyd […]

October 1, 2013

Not Just Florida’s Problem: New York City Charter Schools Have Fewer Children With Disabilities

The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington has released a study showing that charter schools in New York City are less likely to serve children with disabilities than traditional public schools in New York. StateImpact Florida has reported on the exclusion of children with disabilities from Florida charter schools. It’s […]

September 30, 2013

A Q & A About Florida’s New Online University

Last week the Florida State University System Board of Governors approved the business plan for a legislatively-created online university at the University of Florida. The school, UF Online, will start offering classes in January. Students will be able to earn their baccalaureate degree completely online (though they may need to complete some lab at a […]

September 26, 2013

The Average Florida Graduate Isn’t Ready For College, According to SAT Results

Fewer than half of students who took the SAT last year scored high enough to be considered ready for college-level work — including the average Florida public school student who took the test — according to the test’s creator. Just 43 percent of class of 2013 students who took the SAT scored 1550 or higher, […]

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