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Florida roundup: Teach for America, charter schools, FCAT season & more
Teach for America. It’s looking at Tampa Bay for expansion. Gradebook. Charter schools. The Orange school board renews four charters and accepts the voluntary closure of another, reports SchoolZone. A charter school’s plans to move in Miami-Dade don’t make its parents or potential new neighbors happy, reports the Miami Herald. A judge... READ MOREFlorida roundup: FCAT money, charter schools, parent trigger & more
School recognition funds. About 1,700 schools will get about $134...
READ MOREFlorida roundup: Marco Rubio, charter schools, virtual schools & more
Tax credit scholarships. Tampa Bay Times columnist Robyn Blumner doesn’t...
READ MOREFlorida roundup: Education rankings, teacher evaluations, National School Choice Week & more
It’s National School Choice Week. SchoolZone and StateImpact Florida. Grade inflation?...
READ MOREFlorida roundup: Teacher pensions, school spending, honeymoons & more
No honeymoon for Bennett. Especially from the teachers union, reports...
READ MORE‘The train has left the station on school choice’ – Florida BOE Chair Gary Chartrand, podcastED
Florida is a national leader in expanding school choice. And...
READ MOREAgony and accountability in school choice
Education reform, for some of us, is full of tough...
READ MOREIn Florida’s standardized testing fiasco, a sober assessment of what went wrong
Florida education officials recently posted a frank internal report about...
READ MOREEducation Week report: Florida graduation rates among fastest rising in nation
Florida public schools got another clear sign of progress today...
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