Florida BOE Faces the Music; Passes Common Core Anyway
Florida’s unelected Board of Education, long serving as reliable cronies to rubber stamp Jeb Bush’s education agenda, finally had to face critics in yesterday’s public hearing on Common Core. Not that there ever any doubt that they would ever act differently, yesterday’s passage revealed the Board’s complete void of independent thought. Consider this from Matt Dixon in the Florida Times-Union: The
2-15-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida ALL Week
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 ALL WeekPam Stewart Snubs Teachers in Recognizing AP Success, ParticipationFrom an FDOE press release: Tallahassee, Fla., February 11, 2014 – Florida earned high marks for the percentage of graduates from the class of 20