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Florida schools roundup: Sales tax holiday, resource officers, Zika and more
Sales tax holiday: Florida’s back-to-school sales-tax break weekend begins today and ends Sunday. Buyers will not have to pay the sale tax for some clothes, footwear and accessories costing less than...
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Florida schools roundup: Back to school, promotions, prayers, pay and more
Back to school: It’s back to school day for students in 38 of Florida’s 67 counties. Dixie and Washington counties also were supposed to start, but heavy rains have canceled the first day of classes....
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Florida schools roundup: Retention, construction, back to school and more
Retention issues: A judge says she may rule this week in a lawsuit brought against the state’s third-grade retention policy. Leon County Circuit Judge Karen Gievers did not grant the request to...
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Florida schools roundup: Pledge waiver, testing, school reforms poll and more
Pledge problems: After some parents protested when their children brought home a waiver to opt out of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at school, the Leon County School District is removing the form...
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Florida schools roundup: Retention decision, choice ratings and more
Retention decision: A judge says the state erred in automatically holding back third-graders who do poorly on the state Florida Standards Assessments tests or opt out from taking them. Leon County...
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Florida schools roundup: Retention ruling appeal, pay, enrollment and more
Retention appeal: The Florida Department of Education and two schools districts are appealing a judge’s ruling last week against the state’s policy for retaining third-graders. Leon County Judge Karen...
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Florida schools roundup: Scandal, evaluations, tall high school and more
Miramar High scandal: A 3,000-page report concludes that officials at Miramar High School allowed students to cheat, made questionable grade changes and showed favoritism to football players in 2014....
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Florida schools roundup: No homework, school choices, recess drive and more
No homework: Mandatory homework is out at Henry S. West Laboratory School, a public K-8 in Coral Gables. School officials say students will no longer be graded on homework or penalized if they don’t...
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Florida schools roundup: Education budget boost, teacher shortage and more
Education budget: The Florida Board of Education is requesting that the state increase per-pupil spending from $7,183 this year to $7,359 next year, with the overall budget increasing about 3.4 percent...
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Florida schools roundup: SAT scores, homeless, address checks and more
SAT scores: National and Florida SAT scores have dropped between 1 and 6 percentage points in reading, writing and math this year from last, according to the College Board. Miami-Dade County bucked the...
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Florida schools roundup: Common Core, school threats, SAC funds cut and more
Common Core: National support for the Common Core State Standards has fallen to the lowest level in five years, according to a report in Education Next, a journal published by the Harvard Kennedy...
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Florida schools roundup: Homework, new tests, spending oversight and more
Homework fight: Miami-Dade teachers and parents spar at a school board meeting over the amount of homework students are being given. Parents say too much is being assigned, cutting into family time....
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Florida schools roundup: Extra pay, middle school marriage and more
Payment questioned: A Broward County School District audit reveals that the district paid a former district police employee about $23,000 over her approved salary in 2015. Jillian Haring was a special...
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Florida schools roundup: Bright Futures, budget cuts, guns, AP tests and more
Bright Futures: The Senate passes a higher education bill that would allocate $151 million to restore Bright Futures funding to 100 percent and allow recipients to use the scholarships for summer...
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Florida schools roundup: Most schools reopen, testing delay, ESSA and more
Back in session: Most Florida public school districts reopened Monday or are expected to today or tomorrow, according to the Florida Department of Education. School districts are also making decisions...
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Campbell Brown: It’s amazing school choice is somehow controversial
Editor’s note: Former CNN host turned ed reform advocate Campbell Brown gave a speech Tuesday night at the American Federation for Children summit in Florida. Here are her remarks as delivered:...
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Survey: 1 in 5 public school teachers send kids to private schools
School choice will soon be the new normal. According to Education Next’s latest annual poll, 1 in 4 families with school-age children have tried alternatives to district schools such as home schools,...
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The uncritical Core
Does the Common Core implicate school choice? The answer might be important one way or another in the national effort to empower lower-income families to decide for their own children. Much of the...
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Districts and charter schools, working together: Sarah Yatsko, podcastED
The four Florida school districts planning unprecedented collaborations with high-impact charter schools can look around the country for models of what to do – and what not to do. It’s not unheard of...
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Duval superintendent: Florida charter school debate needs to evolve
Vitti While many Floridians were watching election returns roll in, the Duval County School Board rejected half a dozen charter applications Tuesday night. But on the recommendation of district staff,...
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