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Options lacking for parents of disabled kids at F schools
The notice in the mail told Carmen Olmeda she could transfer her profoundly disabled daughter out of Orange County's F-rated Magnolia School. But there is no other county school that can meet the needs of 18-year-old Loly, who needs hourly glucose...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Hillsborough County, Florida Legislature, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), U.S. Department of Education
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What tests will replace FCAT? Florida to decide by June
Florida plans to retire most FCAT exams and replace them with new tests aligned to the new Common Core standards. The switch, set for the 2014-15 school year, has been in the works since at least 2010 -- but now just what tests the state will switch to...
Tags: Science and Technology
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Building toward Common Core
In his five months as Florida education commissioner, no moss has grown under Tony Bennett. He has barnstormed the Sunshine State glad-handing teachers skeptical over merit pay and selling Common Core to increasingly cynical critics who view the...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Charter Schools, Regional Authority, Teachers, Government
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Merit pay: Value-added rules delayed, based on legislation, public comments
The effort to hammer out new, statewide rules for how to use value-added test score data in teacher evaluations will take longer than planned. That is not surprising, the Florida Department of Education said, as officials knew that the Legislature could...Tags: Academic Progress, Rick Scott
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For paltry pay, teaching assistants are unsung heroes in state's push toward excellence
LEESBURG — In a room dubbed Confidence City, a burly Baptist minister-turned-educator calls out writing instructions to a row of special-needs teenagers hunched over their work sheets. Derrick King Sr., a part-time 40-year-old pastor with a...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Teachers, Orlando, Orange County (Florida)
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Striving to end FCAT nonsense for Florida's profoundly disabled students
Takiing NamesLast month, I wrote about some of the nonsensical testing scenarios for kids with profound disabilities. ("Florida's test-obsessed style of education hits disabled families hard.") And people responded in spades -- parents, teachers, families of...Tags: Barack Obama
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District probe: Jones High teacher had sex with student
Former Jones High School Teacher of the Year Hugh Broomes has been fired after a district investigation found he had sex with a student. He was fired April 23 after a district investigation found he was texting the student, a minor, on her cellphone...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Prosecution, Medical Research, Teachers, Witnesses
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Elementary rock band jams out for a cause
You don't always need colored hair, tattoos or a wild personality to be a rock star. At Silver Shores Elementary in Miramar, being just over 4-feet tall, 10 years old and wearing a pink tutu will do. "Rock stars, they can be people just like us,...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Parkinson's Disease, Science and Technology
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Florida needs more vocational schools
A Florida high school diploma is once again being rewarded to all students who can pass the algebra end-of-course exam (ninth grade math) and the 10th grade FCAT exam in reading. Thank you, Gov. Rick Scott, for once again changing the requirements back to...Tags: Science and Technology, Sunrise (Broward, Florida), Career and Workplace, Mathematics, Colleges and Universities
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Scott stops by to praise teachers, pitch raises on his 'victory tour'
Gov. Rick Scott praised Florida's public-school teachers Tuesday during a visit to Ocoee Middle School, one of five stops on his weeklong "victory tour" to celebrate teacher raises. "We've got great teachers in our state, and we should be very thankful,"...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Florida Legislature, Academic Progress
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