4-7-14 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:

Florida to Pay Utah $5.4 Million for Field Test

There’s more fall-out from those new state tests which are being field-tested in Utah. Kristen Moulton in the Salt Lake City Tribune reports: Utah is about to reap an unexpected windfall from the questions it wrote for the new SAGE tests being launched this month in Utah schools. Florida agreed late last month to pay rental fees that could amount to $5.4 million for test questions that Utah Office

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4-6-14 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: Florida Republicans, Chamber of Commerce Can’t Recocile Conflicts Between Vouchers and STEM AdvocacyWriting in the Lakeland Ledger, Floridian Citizens for Science president Jonathan Smith points to some alarming numbers about private schools which receive voucher money:

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