A few months ago, the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress – the gold standard of standardized tests – showed Florida, again, made a national splash. This time, it notched the biggest gains in America. You’d think the biggest gains in America would prompt applause from school[Read More…]
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Testing Choice
I get The New York Times. Each morning, it identifies the world’s battlegrounds — military and ideological, political and economic. I discount and forgive its plainly “liberal” bent. If I owned a paper, it would have a tone of sorts. But there are limits. One, I suggest, is the duty of all media,[Read More…]
‘Hippie school’ votes for school choice
The Grassroots Free School in Florida, a democratic “free school” with roots in ’60s counterculture, supports school choice and accepts tax credit scholarships for low-income students.
NAEP: Florida’s low-income students among national leaders in math, reading
Low-income students in Florida continue to outpace their peers in most other states, with particularly strong, relative outcomes in some of Florida’s biggest urban districts, according to national test results released this morning. The overall results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress were not flattering for Florida or the[Read More…]
Florida schools roundup: Testing, tax credit scholarships, Satanists & more
Charter schools. The Plato Academy charter schools in Pinellas are academically knocking it out of the park. Tampa Tribune. Tax credit scholarships. Senate President Don Gaetz, who pushed for stronger accountability and transparency in the program, says in an op-ed that as a former school board member he is “ashamed” of[Read More…]
Florida roundup: Tax-credit scholarships, charter schools, testing and more
Tax credit scholarships. The bill expanding the program is likely headed to the House floor. More from the Scripps/Tribune. Times/Herald. News Service of Florida. The state should mandate that scholarship students take the state’s standardized science test too. Bridge to Tomorrow. Education activist Rita Solnet tears into the program on the[Read More…]
Rep. Diaz: I oppose testing mandate for FL school choice scholarships
A key player in legislation to expand school choice scholarships in Florida said Monday he will fight to keep scholarship students from having to take the same standardized tests as their public school counterparts. The comments from state Rep. Manny Diaz, R-Hialeah, are squarely at odds with calls for a[Read More…]
FL Common Core foes oppose same tests for school choice scholarships
As if education politics in Florida couldn’t get more complicated. Opponents of Common Core in public schools are hoping to seize on anti-Common Core sentiment among their counterparts in private schools. The prompt: Calls by Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, for tax credit scholarship students in private schools to take[Read More…]