Deja Vu All Over Again: Charter Schools USA to Appeal Denial of Application to State Board
Baseball legend Yogi Berra’s yummy pleonasm seems appropriate when it comes to the manner that Charter Schools USA takes advantage of a system they helped game themselves. No for-profit charter school has appealed local school board more rejections than has Jonathan Hage’s CSUSA. Their appeals have always been granted by Hage’s cronies on the state board. Here we go again. From Tama Bay Times repo
Bullying as a Misdemeanor in Florida?
SaintPetersblog sent this interesting little blurb out in his invaluable Sunburn email alert: An effort to fight bullying would go beyond school lines in Florida law, under a measure (SB 548) filed Wednesday by Sen. David Simmons. The proposal says the offense of bullying would involve “a person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly harasses or cyberbullies another.” The term excludes consti
12-18-13 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Common Core’s Not the Problem; It’s the “Other Stuff”New York is a step ahead of Florida. They have implemented Common Core and administered the state-wide tests that go with them. The roll-out proved to be a disaster. Politicians develop education policy after listenin
