Skepticism for SB736 in the Florida Senate
Rick Scott told FOX News host Neil Cavuto after SB736 was past, “It’s going to be great.”
Not so much. Changes are already being considered. Bush Foundation CEO Patricia Levesque wants to add student surveys into the calculus and is floating the idea around. Senate Education chairman John Legg has said his committee will be considering changes to the bill. The committee’s vice chair was more poignant. This from Travis Pillow in the Tallahassee Democrat:
Not so much. Changes are already being considered. Bush Foundation CEO Patricia Levesque wants to add student surveys into the calculus and is floating the idea around. Senate Education chairman John Legg has said his committee will be considering changes to the bill. The committee’s vice chair was more poignant. This from Travis Pillow in the Tallahassee Democrat:
State Sen. Bill Montford, a Democrat from Tallahassee, has a broader range of concerns with the law.
He said placing new teachers on one-year contracts for the rest of their careers undermines their job security and could make it more difficult to attract new people to the teaching profession.
“The damage it’s doing we won’t see until five, six years down the road, when we don’t have the
Oklahoma Parents Don’t Like Jeb Bush’s Florida Model
From Tulsa World reporter Kim Archer:
JENKS – Tulsa-area parents told legislators Friday that the state’s A to F grades for all Oklahoma schools should be retracted in light of a report slamming the validity of the school report card system.
At a meeting of the Tulsa Parent Legislative Action Committee, about 90 parents and some teachers met in small groups with nine legislators, including a co-sponsor of the legislation that established the A-F grade system, Rep. Lee Denney, R-Cushing.
She said she was disheartened to hear the conclusions of policy experts at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. Denney said she believes that the formula should have
