Gerard Robinson Repeats Scott’s Evasive Talking Points on High-Stakes Testing
From Florida Times-Union reporter, Kristopher J. Brooks:
Rick Scott’s Florida Plummets in Business and Education Rankings
Florida’s top education official told a Jacksonville audience Tuesday that he knows changes in statewide testing have been a headache for local educators, but tweaking the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test was necessary.Robinson, like Scott, is being coy. Both know FCAT is quickly being replaced by PARCC and state-level EOC’s. The media are letting them get away with it so far, but members of state school boards aren’t. In an Orlando
“We haven’t changed the FCAT in 10 years,” Gerard Robinson told an audience at City Hall. “We know it’s been difficult for you, your teachers, the superintendent and the [school] board, but we’re trying to prepare your students for the next 10 years.”
Rick Scott’s Florida Plummets in Business and Education Rankings
Jacksonville Business Journal’s Michael Clinton reports a CNBC study reveals that under Rick Scott, Florida has lost ground to the rest of the nation on business and in education:
Gov. Rick Scott still has some work to do to make Florida the “No. 1 state for business,” as he likes to say.
CNBC ranked Florida as the No. 29 state for business as part of its study, America’s Top States for Business 2012. That actually is lower than Florida rank in 2011, when it came in at No. 18.
States were scored in multiple categories, such as cost of doing business, economy, education, and technology and innovation. For the most part, Florida’s scores in the individual categories did