How Florida’s Privatization Zealots Want to Advance Their Agenda on the Backs of Disabled Kids
Florida Times-Union reporters Teresa Stepzinski and Topher Sanders wrote Thursday of plans by the State Board of Education to include students with developmental disabilities to be included in the calculation of school grades. Duval and St. Johns county superintendents, Ed Pratt-Daniels and Joe Joyner spoke to the reporters jointly:
The superintendents especially took issue with a proposal to include the academic performance of students with developmental disabilities and students learning English in calculating a school’s scores.
Both said the rule change would make severely disabled students who are merely learning to swallow count toward a school’s proficiency. Duval’s Mt. Herman Exceptional Student Center, which currently doesn’t receive a grade because of the severity of its students’ disabilities, would earn an F under the proposal. This would be the first time that severely disabled students are
