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BAD MOVE: Palm Beach Schools’ Expensive I-Ready Nightmare

BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — Parents attending “curriculum night” this week at schools throughout Palm Beach County learned a stunning fact: The School District’s highly   publicized “I-Ready” program — for which it is paying $5.6 Million — is incompatible with iPads, Android Tablets, and many browsers on traditional computers. I-Ready is an online system…

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Watch: John Oliver speaks truth about for-profit charters

Take the time to watch as John Oliver brilliantly lays out the truth about for-profit charters on his HBO Show, “Last Week Tonight,” Sunday, August 21, 2016. (language warning)                 The charter school industry is fully funded by our tax dollars, yet there is little oversight or transparency…

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Charters, conflicts of interest & that Ocoee land deal

Rigging the game.is a must when creating an uneven playing field. Especially when it comes to profit. Some call this the free market. Nice term. Sounds like we all get a shot. Not so much. The “free market” really means that every tax dollar paid toward schools, roads, health, safety, parks, should be free for…

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Harris Rosen gives college scholarships to Jones High 2017 graduates

Maya Angelou said, “People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”  No truer words could be used to describe Orlando Hotelier Harris Rosen who recently told WDBO that he’s going to pay “room, board, tuition, books and everything” for each 2017 Jones High School senior accepted to a trade school, community college or 4-year public Florida…

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