Last December, Congress passed a new federal education law called the Every Student Succeeds Act, replacing No Child Left Behind. With it will come new rules for states to follow regarding standardized testing for “accountability” purposes. Negotiators have agreed on draft rules, which will soon be released so the public can comment before the rules…
Along with ending its athletics transfer review committee, the Pasco County school district is rewriting its student-athlete eligibility rules in light of newly adopted state law that makes it easier for teens to move and still play their sports. The administration is asking the School Board to approve new language to the Code of Conduct…
#FridayFive – Week of April 25, 2016 Telecom companies’ financial decisions leave some schools without internet Simpson’s paradox and this year’s NAEP scores 90% of parents think their children are at or above grade level Tennessee cancels testing after vendor fails to deliver Lots of success stories in public schools
WASHINGTON — Florida is a political juggernaut, wooed by presidential candidates and often pivotal in deciding who occupies the White House and which party controls Congress. But the nation’s third-largest state punches below its weight in Congress. Only one of the Florida delegation’s 29 members — two senators and 27 House members — is chairman…
TALLAHASSEE — The Supreme Court of Florida handed the insurance and business industries a significant defeat on Thursday, ruling in a 5-2 decision that the state’s attorney-fee caps in workers compensation law are unconstitutional. “We conclude that the mandatory fee schedule is unconstitutional as a violation of due process under both the Florida and United…