Five private Florida colleges are among the 25 schools with the lowest graduation rate.
Five Florida schools have landed on a list of private colleges with the lowest graduation rates.
Barry University in Miami Shores and Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens and Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach had the sixth-, seventh-, and eight-lowest graduation rates, according to an analysis of federal data by CBS MoneyWatch.
About one in three students graduate from those schools within six years.
Lynn University in Boca Raton also made the list. The school will be the site of the third and final presidential debate. Florida Southern University in Lakeland was the final Florida school to make the list.
The Florida Board of Education will meet in a closed session this evening in Orlando.
They’ll talk about what to do now that a judge has ruled against Florida’s practice of charging out-of-state tuition to students who were born in America but whose parents are undocumented.
Unlike other states, Florida colleges and universities consider the citizenship of a student’s parents.
Five students sued the state, and U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore agreed that the practice is unconstitutional. He granted the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment
The state hasn’t decided whether to appeal. It’s waiting for Moore’s final decision.
StudentsFirst founder Michelle Rhee has advised Gov. Rick Scott. Rhee is one of the scheduled guests on the Tell Me More/StateImpact Florida special.
If you’re interested in the future of education in Florida and our nation, you’ll want to be next to your radio, computer, or smartphone on Oct. 10.
That’s when the NPR show “Tell Me More” and StateImpact Florida are teaming up for a special show.
We’ve convinced some of the heavy-hitters in education to be part of the forum — including U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the provocative former leader of Washington D.C.’s public schools, Michelle Rhee.
The event is taking place in Miami at WLRN Public Media, where you can hear the show. You can also hear it at 11 a.m. on WUSF Public Media in Tampa.
Meanwhile, you can join the conversation right now. Tweet your thoughts and ideas with @TellMeMoreNPR using #npredchat and #IsYourSchoolBroken.
He found that a sixth grader who exhibits just one of four warning signs is 75 percent more likely to drop out of high school.
From Diplomas Now:
“Half of the 500,000 kids who drop out of school every year come from just 12 percent of the nation’s high schools, or 1,700 “dropout factories.” A study from Johns Hopkins University found that students who are most at risk of dropping out can be identified as early as middle school through key indicators – poor attendance, unsatisfactory behavior, and course failure in math and English.”
At Miami’s Edison Middle School, the program has achieved some results:
Here’s why: The 2006 Florida Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Holmes.
We’ve annotated some significant portions of the opinion. That includes the portion where the majority explicitly says they are not basing their decision on the section of the state constitution which Amendment 8 would rewrite.
James G. Blaine, a former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representative. His proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution failed, but Florida was one of more than 30 states which approved a similar ban on public funding of religious groups.
Alachua County school board member Eileen Roy has called a proposed constitutional amendment coming before voters in November “the very death of public schools.”
The state’s largest teacher’s union is running ads against the change and mobilizing teachers to get out and vote against it.
Amendment 8 – dubbed the Religious Freedom Amendment – is likely to be one of the most contested ballot questions this fall.
The big question: Will it take taxpayer dollars away from public schools — to fund private, religious schools?
The answer: No, not directly…at least not yet. But passing the amendment could lay the groundwork for a future voucher campaign.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools are beginning an in-school pilot program to educate fourth graders on nutrition, physical well-being and the appreciation of cultural diversity.
The program is in partnership with the nonprofit Common Threads.
The obesity program is one reason Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho will be honored this week for his work fighting childhood obesity in schools.
Carvalho, who’s been superintendent for four years in Miami, will be honored at Common Threads’ annual World Festival event tomorrow in Miami’s Design District.
Miami-Dade schools have a plan for a pilot program in select schools that will include 20- to 40-minute interactive lessons. The content incorporates Common Core State Standards in math and English.
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