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2013 FCAT scores to be released Friday
The first batch of 2013 FCAT scores is to be released Friday morning, according to the Florida Department of Education. Results from the third-grade reading and math exams as well as all the writing exams — taken by students in grades 4, 8 and...
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Options lacking for parents of disabled kids at F schools
The notice in the mail told Carmen Olmeda she could transfer her profoundly disabled daughter out of Orange County's F-rated Magnolia School. But there is no other county school that can meet the needs of 18-year-old Loly, who needs hourly glucose...
Tags: U.S. Department of Education, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Brevard County, Florida Legislature, Students
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Pinellas bolstering ineffective champion for minority students
The Tampa TribuneCreated to ensure the issues of minority students didn't go unnoticed, the District Monitoring and Advisory Committee was supposed to help address the embarrassing achievement gap between black and white students in Pinellas County schools. The group,...Tags: Tampa, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Teachers
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BRIEF: Manatee 12th-graders do well on FCAT retakes
Bradenton HeraldManatee County 12th-graders retaking the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test fared slightly better than seniors statewide when it comes to scoring high enough to qualify for graduation, according to results released Thursday by the Florida Department of... -
What tests will replace FCAT? Florida to decide by June
Florida plans to retire most FCAT exams and replace them with new tests aligned to the new Common Core standards. The switch, set for the 2014-15 school year, has been in the works since at least 2010 -- but now just what tests the state will switch to...
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Building toward Common Core
In his five months as Florida education commissioner, no moss has grown under Tony Bennett. He has barnstormed the Sunshine State glad-handing teachers skeptical over merit pay and selling Common Core to increasingly cynical critics who view the...
Tags: Charter Schools, American Federation of Teachers, Regional Authority, Teachers, Executive Branch
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Merit pay: Value-added rules delayed, based on legislation, public comments
The effort to hammer out new, statewide rules for how to use value-added test score data in teacher evaluations will take longer than planned. That is not surprising, the Florida Department of Education said, as officials knew that the Legislature could...Tags: Academic Progress, Rick Scott
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For paltry pay, teaching assistants are unsung heroes in state's push toward excellence
LEESBURG — In a room dubbed Confidence City, a burly Baptist minister-turned-educator calls out writing instructions to a row of special-needs teenagers hunched over their work sheets. Derrick King Sr., a part-time 40-year-old pastor with a...
Tags: Orlando, Orange County (Florida), Teachers, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Students
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Striving to end FCAT nonsense for Florida's profoundly disabled students
Takiing NamesLast month, I wrote about some of the nonsensical testing scenarios for kids with profound disabilities. ("Florida's test-obsessed style of education hits disabled families hard.") And people responded in spades -- parents, teachers, families of...Tags: Barack Obama
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District probe: Jones High teacher had sex with student
Former Jones High School Teacher of the Year Hugh Broomes has been fired after a district investigation found he had sex with a student. He was fired April 23 after a district investigation found he was texting the student, a minor, on her cellphone...
Tags: Prosecution, Witnesses, Teachers, Students, Police Arrests
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Vitti discusses blueprint to improve planning between Duval schools
The Florida Times-UnionStarting this fall, all 183 Duval County schools will not be lumped in clusters based on grades taught in the school. Instead, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti is grouping schools into four "areas" based on how elementary school students have typically...Tags: Teachers, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Students, Teaching and Learning, Duval County
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Jackson: Triumphant Legg has skeptics
The Tampa TribuneJohn Legg, fresh (and remarkably energized, considering) from his debut in the Legislature's upper chamber, has returned to his two-county district feeling -- there is no other word for it -- triumphant. And why not? Following the hurly-burly that saw...Tags: Tampa, Elections, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Don Gaetz, Barack Obama
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