Some of the seeds of Florida’s virtual education system were sown more than two decades ago, at a Fort Myers elementary school, where Julie Young was running an IBM Writing to Read lab. Students in the lab at San Carlos Park Elementary would move from one station to the next,[Read More…]
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Tony Bennett to resign
From the Tampa Bay Times: Tony Bennett is expected to resign Thursday as Florida education commissioner following two days of raging controversy over school grading in his home state of Indiana. Bennett is expected to hold a news conference in Tallahassee late Thursday morning to make the announcement. Bennett, who[Read More…]
Florida may get more time for education commissioner search
The Florida Board of Education is expected this week to extend its search for a new education commissioner, marking the second time in as many years it has done so amidst mutterings that the initial pool is mediocre. Through Friday, the board had received 16 applications to replace former Commissioner Gerard[Read More…]
FBOE member: Next Florida education commissioner needs “a lot of autonomy”
As the Florida Board of Education ramped up its search this morning for a new state education commissioner, one of its board members offered a polite suggestion to Gov. Rick Scott and Florida lawmakers: Give the next commish some space. “I think all of us, the board and the political establishment, needs[Read More…]
In Florida’s standardized testing fiasco, a sober assessment of what went wrong
Florida education officials recently posted a frank internal report about what led to the standardized testing flop that has consumed the ed reform debate for the past two months and sparked the biggest backlash yet against the state’s accountability system. Unfortunately, it received virtually no media coverage (one exception here), which is a[Read More…]