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Julie DelegalJanuary 12, 2015

“Can’t we all just get along?” The immortal words of police brutality survivor Rodney King might make for great TV, but they’re a lousy statement on education policy. And yet, those words nearly jumped off the page as I read Trey Csar’s recent apologia for public school privatization. Csar is president of the Jacksonville Public […]

Julie DelegalDecember 7, 2014

On the Monday before Thanksgiving, something obscene happened in Jacksonville. The indecency I’m talking about didn’t have anything to do with the photography exhibit at Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). A nude photograph of a relaxed pregnant woman enjoying the sunbeams caught the attention of Jacksonville City Councilman Clay Yarborough, who deemed it pornographic […]

Julie DelegalJune 22, 2014

Jacksonville is ground zero for the public education budget disaster that is the result of 15 years of misguided “reform” in Florida. Three months ago, Duval Superintendent of Schools Nikolai Vitti introduced an innovative, if short-lived, proposal to allow open enrollment district-wide to keep more students in the public system. His reason? The public school […]

Julie DelegalOctober 16, 2013

This is part four of a multi-part series on Florida’s Future with the Common Core State Standards, presented in partnership with Folio Weekly. Florida’s Board of Education on Wednesday voted 5-1 to allow school districts to choose their own teaching methods and materials in line with Gov. Rick Scott’s stated policy of local control for […]

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