{"id":15938,"date":"2013-01-10T08:42:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T13:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=15938"},"modified":"2013-01-10T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T14:12:26","slug":"florida-ranked-6th-best-on-national-education-report-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/01\/10\/florida-ranked-6th-best-on-national-education-report-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Ranked 6th Best on National Education Report Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15943\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/01\/10\/florida-ranked-6th-best-on-national-education-report-card\/1-10-number10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15943\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15943\" title=\"1-10 Number10\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-10-Number10-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-10-Number10-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-10-Number10-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-10-Number10-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-10-Number10-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-10-Number10.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">duncan \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida is once again ranked in the top 10 or states, according to Education Week&#39;s Quality Counts rankings.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida is back in the top 10, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/toc\/2013\/01\/10\/index.html?intc=EW-QC13-LFTNAV\"><em>Education Week&#8217;s<\/em> annual ranking of state school districts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/qc\/2013\/state_report_cards.html?intc=EW-QC13-LFTNAV\">Florida ranked 6th in the 2013 Quality Counts rankings<\/a>, earning top scores for standards, accountability, early childhood education and career preparation.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s lowest grades were for K-12 performance and school spending.<\/p>\n<p>Overall Florida earned a B- grade on the report, up from a C+ last year. Maryland earned the highest grade with a B+.<\/p>\n<p>Florida ranked 11th last year, eighth in 2011, fifth in 2010 and eleventh in 2009. The state ranked 31st in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education is holding a press conference at 9 a.m. Check back later for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida is back in the top 10, according to Education Week&#8217;s annual ranking of state school districts. Florida ranked 6th in the 2013 Quality Counts rankings, earning top scores for standards, accountability, early childhood education and career preparation. The state&#8217;s lowest grades were for K-12 performance and school spending. Overall Florida earned a B- grade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":15943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1035,1039,1041,456],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938"}],"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=15938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15947,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions\/15947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}