Has the Florida Department of Education Become a Propaganda Arm of the Education Reform Movement? | Scathing Purple Musings

Has the Florida Department of Education Become a Propaganda Arm of the Education Reform Movement? | Scathing Purple Musings:

Has the Florida Department of Education Become a Propaganda Arm of the Education Reform Movement?

by Bob Sikes

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the hacks at the Florida Department of Education would quickly respond to a U.S. Department of Education report which found Florida graduation rates to be, well, abysmal.  It took four days. Lets compare the two reports.
On Monday, Gradebook’s Jeff Solocheck wrote this of the federal report:

The new federal comparison, from 2010-11, doesn’t paint a pretty picture for Florida. For all students, Florida’s graduation rate was 71 percent, lower than all but five states (Alaska, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico and Oregon) and the District of Columbia.
The state’s rates for minority groups were lower than the total — 69 percent of Hispanics and 59