Tag: testing
Can this bill help online students take their tests?
For years, Florida’s online schools have grappled with a logistical challenge: Getting their students to the campuses of brick-and-mortar schools, operated by school districts, to take their standardized tests. Kevin Chavous, the president of the online learning company Stride, laid out the complications several years ago: Imagine that a school... READ MOREOpinion: Why NAEP scores should be used with skepticism when ranking states’ charter schools
Harvard University’s Paul Peterson and M. Danish Shakeel wrote a...
READ MORETwo ‘double-F’ charter schools spared automatic closure in baseline grading year
Florida released a new batch of A-F grades to schools,...
READ MOREFlori-duh? Florida public schools rising
A few months ago, the latest results from the National...
READ MORETesting Choice
I get The New York Times. Each morning, it identifies...
READ MORE‘Hippie school’ votes for school choice
The Grassroots Free School in Florida, a democratic "free school"...
READ MORENAEP: Florida’s low-income students among national leaders in math, reading
Low-income students in Florida continue to outpace their peers in...
READ MOREFlorida schools roundup: Testing, tax credit scholarships, Satanists & more
Charter schools. The Plato Academy charter schools in Pinellas are...
READ MOREFlorida roundup: Tax-credit scholarships, charter schools, testing and more
Tax credit scholarships. The bill expanding the program is likely headed...
READ MORERep. Diaz: I oppose testing mandate for FL school choice scholarships
A key player in legislation to expand school choice scholarships...
READ MOREFL Common Core foes oppose same tests for school choice scholarships
As if education politics in Florida couldn’t get more complicated....
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