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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

5-14-14 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:











Testing Screw-Ups, Fines and We’re Working on It

WTSP reporter Grayson Kamm went looking for more answers about last months FCAT snafu and spoke with education commissioner Pam Stewart. He writes: “Where is the state in figuring out how much money this screw-up cost us?” I asked the state’s education chief after she gave a briefing to educators in Tampa. “We’ve got folks working on that, even as we speak. And we’ll be working with the vendor,”


5-13-14 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 Public Schools Understand the Hyprocrisy Behind Budget NumbersThe narrative that Florida republican legislators and Governor Rick Scott advanced at the end of the legislative session was that public schools were somehow the big winners. Public school officials ar