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FairTest Fact-Checks Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson

by Bob Sikes

FairTest Pubic Education Director Bob Schaeffer responds to the narrative that Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson is advancing during appearances around the state which he’s making to defend the state’s test-dominated accountability system:

Despite Governor Rick Scott’s recent admission that Florida may be testing too much, state Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson is promising that the number of standardized exams administered in public schools will actually increase over the next few years. A story in Friday morning’s (SW Florida) News-Press reports on Robinson’s meeting with that paper’s editorial board:
 ”The FCAT 2.0 state exam will still exist alongside Common Core assessments, Robinson said, 

Will One Flagler School Board Election Serve As a Referendum On Resolution Against High-Stakes Testing?

by Bob Sikes

 Flagler County School Board member Colleen Conklin 

Flagler county school board member, Colleen Conklin,  has been one voices Floridians have been hearing from longest who raised warnings on the direction Florida lawmakers were taking the state’s schools.
With the Flagler board’s cost-saving decision to cut the school day by 45 minutes on her mind last summer, Conklin urged her fellow board members to consider a lawsuit against the legislature for failing to fund education. In a lawsuit driven by parent advocates Fund Education Now and Citizens for Strong Schools, Conklin got her wish as a state appeals court ruled in November 2011 that lawsuit should go to the state’s Supreme Court. In