Renzo DowneyMarch 17, 2022
8min0
'If there was a silver lining of COVID, I think this bill is one of the silver linings.'
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Renzo DowneyMarch 17, 2022Renzo DowneyMarch 15, 2022
6min0
The Republican Governor calls the bill 'a huge win for parents, students and teachers.'
Sarah MuellerMarch 9, 2020
4min561
It’s aimed at schools that exited and then reentered the turnaround
Ryan NicolDecember 12, 2019
4min741
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has also pushed back on the overabundance of standardized testing.
Scott PowersAugust 6, 2018
2min307
Democratic Florida House of Representatives candidate Joy Goff-Marcil is launching her first internet video advertisement for House District 30, focusing principally on her support for public schools and her concerns over Tallahassee’s effort to pre-empt local powers. A little over two minutes, the video features Goff-Marcil, a Maitland city councilwoman, standing outside the fence of […]
Julie DelegalAugust 2, 20156min205
The Florida Legislature just passed a law that will award bonuses to police officers who were patrol boys or patrol girls in fifth grade. Not really. But what they did was equally absurd. And it could be illegal, too. In last-minute budget horse-trading during the Legislature’s first Special Session this summer, Rep. Erik Fresen’s bill […]
Guest AuthorMarch 25, 201510min229
The problems that Florida schools suffered when glitches halted administration of computerized state tests highlighted the intimate relationship between education and technology. I was reminded of this marriage recently when I visited a replica of a 1935 Florida classroom at the Yesteryear Village. I was suddenly transported back into the mid 60s classroom of my […]
Associated PressMarch 9, 2015
1min225
Florida’s top law enforcement agency is investigating cyber-attacks that caused several school districts to suspend standardized tests. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of Education announced the investigation Monday, a week after school districts started reporting problems with the tests. Administrators were having problems logging into the testing system and some students […]
Associated PressMarch 4, 2015
5min178
Several school districts on Tuesday suspended Florida’s new standardized tests for a second day, despite assurances that the problems had been fixed. Education Commissioner Pam Stewart asked districts early in the morning to resume using the online portal that middle-school and high-school students must use in order to log on and take the state’s annual […]
Guest AuthorFebruary 22, 201510min203
When I met Edith for the first time and heard her stories about her kindergarten class, I realized that she is the poster child for what is happening in Florida education at the grass roots level. She is a slight woman in her early 30s, originally from Venezuela, an immigrant like most her students, who […]