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by: Leslie Postal|Orlando Sentinel January 25, 2016 A parent-pushed measure to require 20 minutes of daily recess in all of Florida’s public elementary schools is to get its first committee hearing Tuesday. The Florida House‘s K-12 education panel has the bill (HB 833) on the agenda for its 9 a.m. meeting. The bill is sponsored by…
by: Paula Dockery, Tampa Bay Times January 21, 2016 Here’s my message to Florida’s 180,000 public school teachers: Thank you. Thank you for your dedication. Thank you for your professionalism. Thank you for your long days of teaching and your long nights of grading papers and preparing for the next day’s lessons. We don’t appreciate…
Two thousand teachers, led by the Florida Educators Association, rallied in Tallahassee on Thursday to protest Florida’s test and punish A-F Accountability system. This is the latest expression of a growing public rejection of nearly two decades of politically motivated, profit-driven education “reform.” Under current laws, high-stakes testing dominates the Florida classroom. K-8 Curriculum has been…