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A study will go forward on the state’s redistribution of money from poorer to wealthier school districts in a funding formula a Volusia County critic called “backwards Robin Hood.” The formula has cost Seminole, Osceola and Lake schools tens of millions in local tax revenue being redirected to more affluent districts, including Orange and Miami-Dade.…
5 Things You Need to Know Click below to read Executive Director Andrea Messina’s top picks for this week’s education news. Read. Learn. Share. Retweet. 1. Students don’t know where to go for mental health services: READ ABOUT IT 2. 8 ways Florida public schools will be different this year: READ ABOUT IT 3. Girl Scouts now offering…
Two Republican senators Tuesday requested a study of a long-controversial part of Florida’s school-funding formula, arguing it helps urban school districts at the expense of suburban and rural districts. Senate Education Chairwoman Dorothy Hukill, R-Port Orange, and Sen. Travis Hutson, R-Elkton, sent a letter to Senate President Joe Negron, R-Stuart, seeking a study of what…
5 Things You Need to Know The week’s top picks for education in the news. Read. Learn. Share. Retweet. 1. Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic groups 2017 report: Click HERE to learn more 2. More A’s but lower SATs. What’s going on? Click HERE to learn more 3. Can math save…
JASPER — Hamilton County schools were recognized by Rikita Patel from the Florida Department of Health and Penny Taylor from the Florida Department of Education for being a healthy school on Monday. The Florida Coordinated School Health Partnership (CSH) is a program which helps determine…Click HERE to read more
Florida Supreme Court won’t consider ‘opt out’ lawsuit Jul 17, 12:42 PM EDT TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court won’t take up a case that challenged the right of school districts to hold third-graders back when they score badly on a mandated standardized… READ FULL ARTICLE
The Department of Education has cleared away confusion surrounding Bright Futures for the fall semester. In a letter to university and college financial aid officers Wednesday night, DOE confirmed how much money the program’s top award recipient will receive during the 2017 – 2018 school year. Read More
Ninety percent of Florida educators say many of their students encounter barriers to learning outside the classroom, according to a report published Monday by Scholastic. The Teacher & Principal School Report found Florida educators are more likely to report inadequate access to the internet and other learning resources outside of school than educators from other…
For years, Florida politicians have trashed public schools, describing them as “failures.” Traditional public schools get it wrong, they say. Charter schools get it right, they say. We need to take money away from “failing” traditional schools and give more of it to charter schools, they say. Yet when school grades were released this past…
The Florida Council of 100 has released The Horizons 2040 Project: PreK-3 recommendations. These recommendations come as part of a long-term vision for education in Florida, and they will be followed in months and years to come with additional recommendations at Grades 4-8 and 9-12. Prior to the public release, the Council met with the…