{"id":23597,"date":"2015-05-14T13:37:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=23597"},"modified":"2015-05-14T13:37:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:37:01","slug":"evaluation-education-commissioner-is-mostly-meeting-her-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2015\/05\/14\/evaluation-education-commissioner-is-mostly-meeting-her-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation: Education Commissioner Is (Mostly) Meeting Her Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16313\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"The State Board of Education is scheduled to  review commissioner Pam Stewart's performance next week.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-25-PamStewart.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16313\" alt=\"The State Board of Education is scheduled to  review commissioner Pam Stewart's performance next week.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-25-PamStewart-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-25-PamStewart-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-25-PamStewart-620x465.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">John O&#39;Connor \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The State Board of Education is scheduled to review commissioner Pam Stewart&#39;s performance next week.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Education Commissioner Pam Stewart says she is largely meeting goals leading Florida schools.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department of Education posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2082033-5-14-stewartevaluation.html\">Stewart&#8217;s self-evaluation of her performance Thursday<\/a>. The State Board of Education is scheduled to discuss Stewart&#8217;s evaluation<a href=\"http:\/\/fldoe.org\/policy\/state-board-of-edu\/meetings\/2015\/2015-05-20\/index.stml\"> at a meeting next week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stewart says she has met the top three goals set out for her by the State Board of Education:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improve rates of learning and students achievement.<\/li>\n<li>Improve graduation and completion rates.<\/li>\n<li>Complete a positive transition to new K-12 standards and assessments and to improved K-16 accountability systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The evaluation cites a list of achievements to prove Stewart&#8217;s case: The state&#8217;s top-10 ranking for academic efforts in Education Week&#8217;s annual report card; rising high school graduation rates; improved performance of Florida&#8217;s black and Hispanic students on national exams, particularly compared to white classmates; the number and rate of students taking and passing Advanced Placement exams.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The evaluations also praises Stewart for mentoring new leaders within the Florida Department of Education and for communication with the state board, lawmakers, educators and the public.<\/p>\n<p>Where Stewart failed to meet goals most often was in the state&#8217;s system of community colleges. Students were slightly less likely to stay in college and slightly less likely to graduate within three years.<\/p>\n<p>The evaluation also argues the state&#8217;s transition to the new Florida Standards Assessment has been smooth. The new exam has been disrupted twice &#8212; once for several days &#8212; because of changes vendor American Institutes for Research made to the system. Testing was also disrupted slightly because of a cyber-attack.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart blamed those problems on the vendor. Anti-testing advocates have argued that Stewart and lawmakers should take more responsibility for the problems, and have argued the test results have been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full 359-page document below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.41176470588235%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2082033-5-14-stewartevaluation.html?embed=true&amp;responsive=false&amp;sidebar=false\" title=\"5 14 StewartEvaluation (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Commissioner Pam Stewart says she is largely meeting goals leading Florida schools. The State Department of Education posted Stewart&#8217;s self-evaluation of her performance Thursday. The State Board of Education is scheduled to discuss Stewart&#8217;s evaluation at a meeting next week. Stewart says she has met the top three goals set out for her by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":16313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[922,1157,774,962,693,666,1006],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23597"}],"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=23597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23599,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23597\/revisions\/23599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}