{"id":11331,"date":"2012-08-08T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=11331"},"modified":"2012-08-08T11:49:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:49:29","slug":"florida-school-boards-association-president-wants-a-conversation-about-fcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/08\/08\/florida-school-boards-association-president-wants-a-conversation-about-fcat\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida School Boards Association President Wants A Conversation About FCAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11333\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 159px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/08\/08\/florida-school-boards-association-president-wants-a-conversation-about-fcat\/8-8-joiecadle\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11333\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11333\" title=\"8-8 JoieCadle\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/8-8-JoieCadle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Orange County Public Schools<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange County school board member Joie Cadle is also president of the Florida School Boards Association.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The president of the Florida School Boards Association says the state&#8217;s next education commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.orlandosentinel.com\/2012-08-08\/opinion\/os-ed-front-and-center-joie-cadle-080812-20120807_1_common-core-standards-florida-education-leaders-charter-schools\">must be willing to work with school boards, parents and educators<\/a> to improve Florida&#8217;s testing and school and district report card system.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County school board member Joie Cadle also told the <em>Orlando Sentinel<\/em> that school boards should have more control over charter schools &#8211; and that the state should not overrule local decisions about which charter schools are approved.<\/p>\n<p>The Sentinel published a Q&amp;A with Cadle today. <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.orlandosentinel.com\/2012-08-08\/opinion\/os-ed-front-and-center-joie-cadle-080812-20120807_1_common-core-standards-florida-education-leaders-charter-schools\">An excerpt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Do you see the sudden resignation of Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson as a setback for Florida&#8217;s reform?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I am not sure that I would consider it a setback. I do believe that it is time to appoint a commissioner of education who understands accountability and would work with all stakeholders to assure that every child learns and has a positive attitude about learning. Reform for the sake of reform is not healthy. Choice for the sake of choice is not good for students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The FSBA has <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/14\/florida-school-board-members-say-education-commissioner-challenged-their-authority\/\">had their disagreements with outgoing Education Gerard Robinson this year<\/a>. The group also approved a resolution asking Florida leaders to <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/15\/read-the-florida-school-boards-association-fcat-resolution\/\">put less emphasis on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.orlandosentinel.com\/2012-08-08\/opinion\/os-ed-front-and-center-joie-cadle-080812-20120807_1_common-core-standards-florida-education-leaders-charter-schools\">Read the full interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Florida School Boards Association says the state&#8217;s next education commissioner must be willing to work with school boards, parents and educators to improve Florida&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":11333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1035,1164,1009,1019,501,1049],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11337,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331\/revisions\/11337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}