Southwest Florida Alliance of Education Leaders to Povide Pushback on Tallahassee
The Fort Myers News-Press reports on the creation of a group of 5 superintendents and 5 college chiefs that will make their own outreach to business communities to affect education policy. Glades superintendent Wayne Aldrich says “it’s up to teachers, parents and business leaders to change the mindset in Tallahassee, one so focused on testing and remediation that instruction often gets lost.”
Ranking 38th nationally in per-student K-12 spending, 47th on the SAT and 48th on the ACT, Florida schools aren’t wowing the country. Only 29 percent of incoming freshmen at Edison State College, Southwest Florida’s largest institution, are fully prepared for college.
“These problems didn’t happen overnight and they’re not going to be solved overnight,” said Hodges
