The Alarming Silence on the Remediation Levels Needed by Florida College Freshmen
Ocala Star-Banner editorial page editor, Brad Rogers correctly points out that the number of Florida freshmen who need some sort of remediation is the most crucial – and disturbing piece of education data that no one is talking about:
Over half of the incoming freshman at CF during the 2009-10 school year — 59 percent of them, to be exact — “needed some type of academic remediation to get them ready to take college-level courses.”
In other words, sure, our FCAT scores are up, most of our schools are grade “A” and our graduation rate is above 80 percent, but an awful lot of the kids graduating from Marion County Public Schools aren’t ready for the next level. They are not prepared for college, which is increasingly an educational imperative for a decent standard of living
Rogers ire is misplaced though, as he blames the Marion county school board for their cuts and spending