Florida School Boards Association
The Florida School Boards Association has formally adopted a resolution calling on Gov. Rick Scott to waive the use of 2015 state test results for school grades, personnel evaluations, student progression and other uses. The group also built upon superintendents’ request for a full review of the state’s education accountability program, which several groups have…
Lee County school board members will lay the groundwork for setting goals and expectations for themselves and Superintendent Greg Adkins during a two-day workshop Friday and Saturday. The first meeting, set for noon to 5 p.m. Friday, will take place at the Canal Street Support Services Annex in Fort Myers. The second, budgeted for 9…
Florida’s accountability system is broken. Due to its hasty construction, a third of the questions for third-grade reading are not directly aligned to the standards they are supposed to measure. A lapse in the test construction process, moreover, failed to tie the complexity of the test questions to the proficiency levels being assessed. This FSA…