{"id":4355,"date":"2012-01-18T12:52:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2012-01-18T12:52:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:52:17","slug":"florida-department-of-education-offers-no-details-on-new-school-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/18\/florida-department-of-education-offers-no-details-on-new-school-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Department of Education Offers No Details on New School Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1355\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Gov. Rick Scott listens at a Miami business roundtable meeting in August. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/121419392.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1355\" title=\"Rick Scott Attends Business Roundtable In Miami\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/121419392-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/121419392-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/121419392-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/121419392.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Raedle \/ Getty News Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Rick Scott listens at a Miami business roundtable meeting in August.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week we noted a <a href=\"http:\/\/management.fortune.cnn.com\/2012\/01\/12\/rick-scott-florida-governor\/\"><em>Fortune <\/em>story<\/a> including an anecdote about Gov. Rick Scott wanting to rank <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/13\/gov-rick-scott-wants-to-rank-every-florida-school-first-to-last\/\">every Florida public school from best to worst.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intrigued, we asked the Department of Education about Scott&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>Is this something the agency is just studying? When will the first rankings be released? What&#8217;s the methodology? Will the rankings factor into school bonuses or teacher merit pay?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the agency declined to answer any of those questions. Spokesman Cheryl Etters sent along this statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been working on various ways to approach the Governor\u2019s request,&#8221; Etters wrote. &#8220;Nothing is final yet, but we should have something more concrete in a few weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we noted a Fortune story including an anecdote about Gov. Rick Scott wanting to rank every Florida public school from best to worst. Intrigued, we asked the Department of Education about Scott&#8217;s request. Is this something the agency is just studying? When will the first rankings be released? What&#8217;s the methodology? Will the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1039,1007,1041,1027],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355"}],"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=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}