Florida Voucher Expansion Cost “$1 Billion Over Next Five Years”
My recent Twitter duels with voucher advocates have revealed a change in their own talking points. Out of one side of their mouth, they vigorously insist that its perfectly OK for state voucher schools to take different tests than public school kids as proof of accountability. Out of the other side of their mouth, they say that they will trade accountability for universal school choice. Paid for b
About Those Faux “Uniform” School Choice Schemes From Florida Republicans
Author and radio talk show host Dr. Stephen Goldstein offers another blistering review of Florida’s republican-dominated school choice apparatus in the Sun-Sentinel: And yet, in recent years, a succession of governors and members of the legislature haven’t “gotten it.” They have understood “uniform” to mean “variable,” even “competing”; and, for a variety of reasons — some of them crass and profit
Rick Scott Targeted by Common Core Opponents in Florida
You knew wouldn’t go away after being dismissed by Rick Scott’s cronies on the state board of education. Miami Herald reporter Kathleen McGrory has this in Naked Politics: TALLAHASSEE — With their bill to suspend Florida’s new education benchmarks stalled in the Legislature, opponents of the Common Core State Standards are pursuing a new strategy. They are turning the heat up on Gov. Rick Scott. L
3-13-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Not a Three-Year “Pause,” But a One-Year “Delay” in Florida School AccountabilityLloyd Dunkelberger of Halifax Media Services reports in the Daytona Beach News-Journal: TALLAHASSEE — Local school districts likely will not get a three-year delay they want in moving to new