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South Plantation magnet program hosts open house
Interested in designing a solar race car? Or working in the Everglades or the environment? At South Plantation High School students leaning toward the study of environmental science and technology can apply for the college-preparatory Environmental...Tags: Everglades, Science and Technology
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Farewell
Aug. 5 I celebrated the news that Commissioner Gerard Robinson had resigned. It's going to take the Board of Education a long time to clean up the mess he left behind. I pray Florida will choose a successor who will take into account the views of school...
Tags: Jordyn Wieber, Orlando International Airport
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New anti-testing presentation from Rick Roach
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelRick Roach, the Orange County School Board member on a mission to reduce the role of standardized tests in public education, has put together a new presentation. He shared “The True Cost of High-Stakes Testing: It's much more than dollars and cents&... -
Superintendents on regulations: Repeal “low-hanging fruit,” consider tougher issues like class size rules, performance pay
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelUPDATE: The Florida Department of Education has sent out a press release about the recommendations. You can find the list of suggestions here: School District Superintendent Survey Final 10 25 2012 The panel of superintendents tapped by Gov. Rick Scott to... -
Do Fl schools have too much on their 2014-15 plate?
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelThe 2014-15 school year is a big one for Florida's public schools. It's the year all the final requirements of its teacher merit pay law kick in, and the year when new FCAT replacement tests debut, to mesh with the new Common Core standards students are... -
Scott says voucher students should have same testing as in public schools
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE – During his gaggle with reporters after a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott made a statement that potentially puts him out of sync with Florida's prominent school-choice backers in the Legislature and private sector. Scott was... -
State Board to pick commissioner, set passing scores for biology and geometry exams at meeting tomorrow
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelThe State Board of Education interviewed its three finalists for education commissioner earlier today and is set to hire one of them in the morning. At its meeting tomorrow, the board is also slated to set passing scores for Florida's new biology and... -
State board members criticize errors in teacher evaluation data
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelState Board of Education members, meeting this morning in Tampa, said data errors in Florida's teacher evaluation report — even if relatively minor — make the state look incompetent and make the public less confident in the information. ... -
FEA complains about value-added data, asks Scott to halt its use
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelThe Florida Education Association has asked Gov. Rick Scott to halt the use of “value-added” test score data in 2011-12 teacher evaluations. Andy Ford, the union's president, made the request in a letter sent this week. Ford said the data &#... -
Partin Elementary in Seminole wins national Blue Ribbon award
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelPartin Elementary School in Seminole County is one of seven schools in Florida — and 219 nationally — to win the federal Blue Ribbon award. The U.S. DOE calls the award a “trademark of excellence.” Partin — A-rated for the... -
Teachers union complains about value-added data for teacher evaluations
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelThe Florida Education Association continued today to raise questions about the usefulness, and validity, of the new value-added test score data being used this year to evaluate teachers. The teachers union detailed its worries at a press conference this... -
Passing scores for biology, geometry end-of-course exams proposed, would have fewer than 60 percent passing
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelEducation Commissioner Pam Stewart has recommended passing scores for Florida's new biology and geometry end-of-course exams. They are ones likely to lead to a first-year failure rate of more than 40 percent, as we noted here. Stewart's proposals —...
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