Florida Risks Losing $1.1 Billion in Federal Funds Over ESSA Spat

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When the Every Student Succeeds Act was first passed in late 2015, Florida officials pledged that they’ll do everything in their power to keep their long-standing accountability system mostly intact.  That’s despite the fact that the federal law has several new requirements that states must abide by. They include factoring in the test scores of…

Sides battle over ‘high quality’ schools requirement

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When Florida voters went to the polls in 1998, more than 70 percent approved a constitutional amendment that required the state to provide an “uniform, efficient, safe, secure and high quality” system of public schools.But two decades later, the Florida Supreme Court is preparing to wade into a long-running battle about whether the state has…