{"id":14669,"date":"2012-11-06T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=14669"},"modified":"2012-11-06T10:15:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:15:47","slug":"let-us-set-our-goals-joel-florida-superintendents-find-50-ways-to-cut-red-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/06\/let-us-set-our-goals-joel-florida-superintendents-find-50-ways-to-cut-red-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Set Our Goals, Joel: Florida Superintendents Find 50 Ways To Cut Red Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14670\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 299px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/06\/let-us-set-our-goals-joel-florida-superintendents-find-50-ways-to-cut-red-tape\/listening-tour1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14670\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14670\" title=\"listening tour1\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/11\/listening-tour1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">FLGOVSCOTT\/flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commissioner Stewart and Gov. Scott meet with teachers at Ft. Walton Beach High School during the Education Listening Tour.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Rick Scott asked seven school district superintendents last September to come up with <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/09\/18\/how-the-governor-wants-to-cut-red-tape-in-education\/\">recommendations for cutting red tape<\/a> in education.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was to save money and give teachers more time to focus on teaching instead of unnecessary paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>The committee has provided a list of more than fifty recommendations based on the governor\u2019s statewide education listening tour.<\/p>\n<p>Scott and Education Commissioner Pam Stewart heard from educators about all the time spent on unnecessary or outdated regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCutting burdensome regulations was something we were asked to do in almost every visit,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/news\/2012\/2012_11_05-2\/survey.pdf\">Committee recommendations include<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Repeal the requirement of annually reporting all recycled materials to the county using the department\u2019s designated reporting format.<\/li>\n<li>Amend statue to give districts flexibility in determining how best to require schools to review their data and set goals for improvement, or require the completion of the plan only for failing schools.<\/li>\n<li>Shut down the statewide school safety hotline. Concerns should be reported locally.<\/li>\n<li>Repeal requirement for districts to monitor students who leave school and enroll as home school students.<\/li>\n<li>Repeal the statute that says schools can open no earlier than 14 days before Labor Day.<\/li>\n<li>Amend statute to provide more time and flexibility to districts in the application of performance pay for public school personnel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Florida Department of Education also surveyed the other sixty school superintendents for suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we provide relief to school districts from unnecessary regulations,\u201d Commissioner Stewart said, \u201cthat allows them to free up resources and provide more learning time for students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are only ideas, and Gov. Scott hasn&#8217;t said how quickly he may act on them. Some recommendations require changes to statutes, while others are simple rule changes.<\/p>\n<p>The Superintendent Committee:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">William Husfelt, Bay County<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Robert Runcie, Broward County<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Dr. Douglas Whittaker, Charlotte County<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Wallace Cox, Highlands County<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Dr. Barbara Jenkins, Orange County<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Dr. Joseph Joyner, St. Johns County<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Dr. Margaret Smith, Volusia County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Rick Scott asked seven school district superintendents last September to come up with recommendations for cutting red tape in education. The goal was to save money and give teachers more time to focus on teaching instead of unnecessary paperwork. The committee has provided a list of more than fifty recommendations based on the governor\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[760,197,692,1115],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669"}],"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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14676,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions\/14676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}