In 2018, new rules will change the way Florida public schools calculate graduation rates. They will have to include students who transfer to private online learning providers late in their academic careers. TC Palm reported the change could cause graduation rates to dip 2 or 3 percentage points in some[Read More…]
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Education Week: Florida’s graduation rate still low but improving fast
Florida’s high school graduation rate remains one of the lowest in the country, but continues to be among the fastest rising, according to the latest graduation rate report from Education Week. Florida’s graduation rate was 75 percent in 2012, ranking it at No. 43 with Alabama, shows the report released[Read More…]
National test scores mostly flat for Florida 12th-graders
Reading and math scores for Florida high school seniors remained flat between 2009 and 2013 on a respected national test, according to results released Wednesday. Florida’s reading scores moved from from 283 to 286 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as “the nation’s report card,” while its[Read More…]
Education Week: Florida schools rank high in achievement, low in funding
Another year, another report, another Top 10 academic ranking for Florida’s oft-criticized public schools. The Sunshine State ranks No. 7 in K-12 achievement this year, up from No. 12 last year, says Education Week in its latest annual “Quality Counts” report. Released Thursday morning, the report for the first time[Read More…]
Charter schools: more diversity, more poverty, similar results
Every year the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) releases its School and Staffing Survey, a treasure mine of interesting education tidbits for education data geeks. According to the latest (collected from 14,000 schools during the 2011-12 school year), 64 percent of private school 12th graders will go on to[Read More…]
Florida roundup: Grad rates, charter school conversions, school nurses & more
FCAT: Florida releases scores today for reading, math and science. Miami Herald. Graduation rates: Florida sees strong growth in grad rates, report finds. Gradebook. Florida’s high school graduation rates for Hispanics tops nation. Orlando Sentinel and Miami Herald. Charter school conversion: Rowlett parents weigh the benefits of converting their district school into[Read More…]
Education Week: Florida No. 2 in improving high school graduation rates
Florida’s high school graduation rate rocketed 23 percentage points to 72.9 percent between 2000 and 2010, putting the Sunshine State at No. 2 among states for progress over that span but still behind the national average, according to a new national report. Only Tennessee did better, with a 31.5 percentage[Read More…]
Florida roundup: Common Core, high-tech classrooms, black males & more
Common Core. A new Florida group calls the Common Core standards “monstrous.” Daytona Beach News Journal. Black males. An endangered species in Florida, given the Schott Foundation’s calculation of grad rates. Politics365. Vals and sals. Hernando school board members tell Superintendent Brian Blavatt to reinstate the designations. Tampa Bay Times. Graduation.[Read More…]