Florida School Boards Association
Florida finance and business leaders have long pushed for the state’s students to better understand the way money works in today’s society. Lawmakers mandated financial literacy instruction for high school students in 2013. In June, the State Board of Education adopted a “financial literacy strand” into its social studies standards. Did you know Florida was…
FSBA’s Legislative Platform is the cornerstone for FSBA’s legislative and congressional advocacy efforts. In order to represent you appropriately in Tallahassee and Washington, we need to begin to develop our 2015 Legislative Platform now. To assist you in the platform development process, a new quick-link has been added to the FSBA website at www.fsba.org titled “FSBA 2015 Legislative Platform”…
FSBA staff has prepared a spreadsheet that provides a list of the school board candidates that have qualified for election this fall and has posted this information on the FSBA website on the State Government Relations page – you will find the page listed in the drop-down menu under the “Advocacy” tab or you may…
The Florida Department of Education has released practice questions for the new assessments that will replace the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test next year. The tests, which are aligned to the new Common Core-based Florida Standards, are available at the Florida Standards Assessments website. Some questions are similar to what students might have seen on the…
Job openings for STEM positions take longer to fill than openings in other fields. The median duration of advertising for a STEM vacancy is more than twice as long as for a non-STEM vacancy. For STEM openings requiring a Ph.D. or other professional degree, advertisements last an average of 50 days, compared to 33 days…
Forget the FCAT. Think FSA instead. Florida’s 15-year-old test officially gave way Monday to the Florida Standards Assessment, with the launch of a new website that gives a first look at the state’s new accountability exams. “We wanted parents and students and teachers to see the different types of questions there might be,” said Vince…
More Florida students soon will be eligible for private-school vouchers under controversial legislation recently signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott. Here are the details: Q. What does the new law do? The new law expands the Tax-Credit Scholarship Program, which already provides private-school scholarships to low-income students, from $4,880 to $5,272. That means parents…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s school voucher program is no longer just for low income families. It’s been expanded to now include the middle-class. This comes at a cost to tax-payers and some say public schools will pay the ultimate price. Colleen Wood has two children that attend one of Florida’s highest ranking public school districts;…
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC Florida) is disappointed that Gov. Rick Scott signed voucher expansion provisions for private schools in SB 850 into law, something that affects Latino students who are trying to learn English disproportionately in the state. In doing so Governor Scott ignored the issues raised by so many parent,…
Some Florida school district elected officials are joining the push by parent and teacher groups asking Gov. Rick Scott to kill SB 850, which lawmakers sent to him late last week. The bill does many things, such as requiring school districts to create collegiate high schools with their local colleges. But the lines that have riled…