Tag: Florida and accountability
Parents are not a monolith
The mom on stage described how she and other low-income parents rode a bus through the darkness – six hours, L.A. to Sacramento, kids still in pajamas – to plead their case to power. In the halls of the legislature, people opposed to the idea of a parent trigger accused... READ MOREFlorida scholar didn’t do homework before dismissing school “vouchers”
David Colburn is a respected former University of Florida provost...
READ MOREA curious knock on Florida’s ed reforms
It does sound nefarious: The people who back accountability for...
READ MOREFlorida may get more time for education commissioner search
The Florida Board of Education is expected this week to...
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 MOREredefinED roundup: Florida education commissioner resigns, charter school plans in Mississippi and more
Florida: State education commissioner Gerard Robinson, a former president of...
READ MOREAgony and accountability in school choice
Education reform, for some of us, is full of tough...
READ MORETime for a deep breath in the divide over education reform in Florida
Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson has made what appears to...
READ MORETest-bashing in Florida could hurt poor and minority students the most
If Florida deserves applause for its recent academic progress, the...
READ MOREChoice nuggets: Ravitch on vouchers, Florida’s academic progress and how “bad” public schools are like Ol’ Man River
Editor’s note: Here’s another selection of “choice nuggets,” a feature we...
READ MOREIn Florida’s standardized testing fiasco, a sober assessment of what went wrong
Florida education officials recently posted a frank internal report about...
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