{"id":22226,"date":"2014-06-16T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=22226"},"modified":"2014-06-16T09:57:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T13:57:24","slug":"summer-boot-camp-might-solve-a-ninth-grade-algebra-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/06\/16\/summer-boot-camp-might-solve-a-ninth-grade-algebra-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Boot Camp Might Solve A Ninth Grade Algebra Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dywayne<\/a>

John O'Connor \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p>

Dywayne Hinds, Pinellas County schools director of middle school education, is helping target incoming ninth graders for a summer Algebra 1 boot camp.<\/p><\/div>\n

About half of Florida ninth graders failed the state’s Algebra 1<\/a> exam on their first attempt last year.<\/p>\n

The class — and passing the exam — are a high school graduation requirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ll find out today if those numbers improved when the Florida Department of Education releases this year’s end-of-course results.<\/p>\n

But Pinellas County schools aren’t waiting. Hundreds of incoming ninth graders will return to class this week to begin a six-week summer Algebra 1 boot camp.<\/p>\n

About two-thirds of Pinellas County ninth graders did not pass the Algebra 1 end-of-course exam given last spring.<\/p>\n

Students will use a computerized curriculum which will let them spend less time on concepts they understand, and more time on lessons they struggle with.<\/p>\n\n

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The Algebra 1 boot camp expands the summer education focus of Superintendent Mike Grego. Last year more than 6,600 students enrolled in the district’s six-week Summer Bridge program.<\/a> This year, the district expects more than 12,000 students, according to the Tampa Bay Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

We sat down with Dywayne Hinds, Pinellas County schools director of middle school education, to talk about why Algebra 1 is so important, how the summer boot camp will work and what the district’s goal is for the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About half of Florida ninth graders failed the state’s Algebra 1 exam on their first attempt last year. The class — and passing the exam — are a high school graduation requirement. We’ll find out today if those numbers improved when the Florida Department of Education releases this year’s end-of-course results. But Pinellas County schools […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":22232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[780,956,1062,1159],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226"}],"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=22226"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22234,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226\/revisions\/22234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}