Guest AuthorJune 19, 2023
6min0
We — The Children’s Movement of Florida — have been at the forefront of these policy initiatives for more than a decade.
Tag: VPK
Guest AuthorJune 19, 2023
Jesse SchecknerApril 3, 2023
8min0
They have less than a month to agree on a uniform spending plan.
Renzo DowneyMay 4, 2021
4min1417
Lawmakers are touting the tools they're creating for parents to exercise school choice.
Peter SchorschApril 27, 2021
5min1221
Currently, incoming kindergartners are evaluated for readiness after they've already started.
Guest AuthorApril 26, 2021
6min2861
How are parents supposed to know if a prekindergarten program is doing its job?
Peter SchorschApril 22, 20215min1859
We can do better. And we shouldn’t wait to try.
Shannon NickinsonMay 17, 201512min163
They are a bright bunch, the class of 2028. The students in Emily Ellis’ VPK class at Lincoln Park Primary School are as warm and bubbly as any crop of 4- and 5-year-olds you are likely to meet, quick with a hug and big on teamwork as they work to “keep the Earth clean” raking […]
Shannon NickinsonMay 14, 20156min198
There were lots of great questions at the Studer Community Institute’s education town hall on May 5 in Pensacola. Questions about what skills our students lack when they go to Pensacola State College and the University of West Florida to further their education. Questions about how we can address the educational, emotional and physiological impacts […]
Guest AuthorJune 19, 20143min159
Years ago, I was an elementary schoolteacher. Those years imprinted on me many valuable lessons, the most important of which is that academically successful children from the earliest grades are more likely to enjoy school. This belief is backed up statistically: An overwhelming 74 percent of all students who fail to read proficiently by the […]