“Institutional Arrogance” at the Florida Department of Education
While the editors of the Lakeland Ledger were urging incoming education commissioner Tony Bennett to “have a more inclusive management style,” they took aim at the department he is charged with running:
Tallahassee’s frequent, and embarrassing, releases of inaccurate student assessment data, flawed teacher assessment scores, skewed school grades and so on is as much a consequence of the Department of Education’s top-down management style as anything else.
For the most part, requests from Florida school superintendents for a more collaborative relationship with the Education Department have fallen on deaf ears, with predictable