The Florida PTA is asking the State Board of Education to reconsider a five-year plan which sets different achievement goals by race. The new goals have drawn criticism from local school officials, who argue they set a lower bar for black and Hispanic students. State officials say the race-based goals are required for Florida’s waiver […]
Miami-Dade has overtaken Duval as the district with the highest number of “priority” schools, formerly known as “intervene.” They are the bottom five percent of the lowest performing “F” schools. Other low performers are labeled “focus.” These are the next lowest ten percent of schools. High schools with graduation rates under 60 percent fall into […]
Editor’s note: Trevor Aaronson is a reporter with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. Thousands of Florida students already are taking classes from Virginia-based K12, Inc, the nation’s largest online education company. Students in traditional schools, in charter schools and who are homeschooled can already take K12 classes in 42 county school districts. Now, the […]
Fed up with FCAT? Well now you can get a peek at the test which will replace it. The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, has released the first batch of sample questions tied to the new exams. Florida is starting the transition to the new Common Core standards and […]
The president of the Florida School Boards Association says the state’s next education commissioner must be willing to work with school boards, parents and educators to improve Florida’s testing and school and district report card system. Orange County school board member Joie Cadle also told the Orlando Sentinel that school boards should have more control […]
University of South Florida education professor Sherman Dorn literally wrote (well, edited) the book on Florida’s education reform policies. So we grabbed him for a few minutes to ask what Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson’s resignation might mean long-term. Dorn says Robinson was put in a particularly difficult position and that Florida’s education chief is a […]
Yesterday we told you about a Tampa charter school which improved its grade from an F to an A despite tougher state standards this year. We thought we’d give credit to the other 294 schools (after the state Department of Education corrected the list) which improved their grades as well. Here they are, by the […]
The Florida Department of Education released big news late Friday evening: 213 elementary and middle schools had received incorrect grades and would be revised upward. After revising the scores, 116 more Florida school earned an ‘A’ grade on the state report card. Seven schools moved to a ‘D’ from an ‘F’ grade. The revisions also […]
Florida’s system of public education is flourishing thanks to high standards and measures of accountability. That’s the gist of a briefing from the Florida TaxWatch Center for Educational Performance & Accountability. The authors note that Florida ranked in the top 11 in the last four years in Education Week’s annual Quality Counts report. “That’s not […]
More than half of Florida schools districts dropped a letter grade this year, according to state Department of Education data released today. In total, 39 of Florida’s 67 school districts earned a lower grade than last year. The drop was expected after state education officials raised standards for state tests this year. And no district […]
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