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For the past quarter century, federal education policy has been moving in one direction: toward standards-based education redesign, a greater reliance on standardized tests, and bigger role for Washington when it comes to holding schools accountable for student results. President Barack Obama reversed course with the stroke of a pen Thursday, putting states and districts…
DetailsFlorida education commissioner Pam Stewart’s school grading simulation showed the state would see a similar distribution of A through F marks for 2015 as it saw in 2014. That simple fact led some observers to question how that could be, given the state’s tests and standards were supposed to be more difficult. Since the numbers were…
DetailsTwo Florida school system leaders were recognized for their exemplary leadership by the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations (CFEF) December 3rd at the 70th Annual Joint Conference of Florida School Boards Association and Florida Association of District School Superintendents in Tampa. They were chosen from among several local nominees for championing community and business involvement…
DetailsEvery once in a while, the nerd is elected class president. That can be a good thing, but Florida won’t know for a while. What we do know is that things are going to change in the Florida Senate. Sen. Joe Negron of Stuart is the choice of his Republican colleagues to be Senate president…
DetailsSAN FRANCISCO – Learning how to code has a bit of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reputation. On the one hand, it promises to be a path to job stability, given that by 2020 some one million computer science jobs will go unfilled in the U.S., according to the Department of Labor. On the other,…
DetailsTwo classrooms at Loften High, two totally different lessons: In one, students in Tina Gennaro’s video game design class are clicking around a computer screen, playing silently with the elements of computer languages like Java, Python and HTML. Across campus, in Lucia Carney’s Spanish class, students are interacting with each other in pairs, taking turns…
DetailsTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Six years after a group of parents and education advocacy groups first filed a lawsuit that charged the Florida Legislature with shortchanging schools they had their first major moment in court on Monday. During a day-long hearing, Circuit Judge George Reynolds rejected a request by those who filed suit to shut…
DetailsThe deeply divided U.S. Congress is poised to get one big thing accomplished before the end of the year. The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on an overhaul of the widely disliked federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, which officially expired in 2007. Its replacement, the Every Student Succeeds Act, passed…
DetailsLee County Public Schools is proud to announce that two students, Hazel and Madison Fitzpatrick and science teacher, Suzie Hassett of Littleton Elementary, were cast in an Emmy® nominated segment, “What is a Watershed?” The nomination comes from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Suncoast Chapter and the 39th Annual Suncoast Emmy® Awards…
DetailsTALLAHASSEE — A controversial plan from a Broward County Democrat to require high schools to offer computer coding courses and let students count them toward foreign language requirements was heralded Thursday as “novel,” “innovative” and “forward-thinking.” But some members of the Florida Senate, as well as some local school district administrators, question how costly the…
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