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    May 17, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  1. BRIEF: Manatee 12th-graders do well on FCAT retakes

    Bradenton Herald
    Manatee County 12th-graders retaking the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test fared slightly better than seniors statewide when it comes to scoring high enough to qualify for graduation, according to results released Thursday by the Florida Department of...
    2. May 17, 2013 |Resource Link| Orlando Sentinel

  2. Are school zero-tolerance policies too strict?

    Tags: Elections, Basketball, Barack Obama, Super Bowl, National Basketball Association

    3. May 17, 2013 |Resource Link| Orlando Sentinel

  3. Will scandals threaten President Obama's agenda?

    Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Elections, Herman Cain, Alec Baldwin, Joe Paterno

    4. May 15, 2013 | Orlando Sentinel

  4. What tests will replace FCAT? Florida to decide by June

    <span style="font-size: medium;">Florida plans to retire most FCAT exams and replace them with new tests aligned to the new Common Core standards. The switch, set for the 2014-15 school year,&nbsp;has been in the works since at least 2010 -- but now&nbsp;just what tests&nbsp;the state will switch to isn't clear.</span>
    Florida plans to retire most FCAT exams and replace them with new tests aligned to the new Common Core standards. The switch, set for the 2014-15 school year, has been in the works since at least 2010 -- but now just what tests the state will switch to...

    Tags: Science and Technology

    5. May 15, 2013 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  5. Building toward Common Core

    In his five months as Florida education commissioner, no moss has grown under Tony Bennett.
    In his five months as Florida education commissioner, no moss has grown under Tony Bennett. He has barnstormed the Sunshine State glad-handing teachers skeptical over merit pay and selling Common Core to increasingly cynical critics who view the...

    Tags: Government, Charter Schools, Regional Authority, Education, American Federation of Teachers

    6. May 13, 2013 | Orlando Sentinel

  6. Merit pay: Value-added rules delayed, based on legislation, public comments

    The effort to hammer out new, statewide rules for how to use value-added test score data in teacher evaluations will take longer than planned. That is not surprising, the Florida Department of Education said, as officials knew that the Legislature could...

    Tags: Academic Progress, Rick Scott

    7. May 12, 2013 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  7. For paltry pay, teaching assistants are unsung heroes in state's push toward excellence

    LEESBURG &mdash; In a room dubbed Confidence City, a burly Baptist minister-turned-educator calls out writing instructions to a row of special-needs teenagers hunched over their work sheets.
    LEESBURG — In a room dubbed Confidence City, a burly Baptist minister-turned-educator calls out writing instructions to a row of special-needs teenagers hunched over their work sheets. Derrick King Sr., a part-time 40-year-old pastor with a...

    Tags: Teachers, Students, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Orange County (Florida), Orlando

    8. May 10, 2013 | Orlando Sentinel

  8. Striving to end FCAT nonsense for Florida's profoundly disabled students

    Takiing Names
    Last month, I wrote about some of the nonsensical testing scenarios for kids with profound disabilities. ("Florida's test-obsessed style of education hits disabled families hard.") And people responded in spades -- parents, teachers, families of...

    Tags: Barack Obama

    9. May 10, 2013 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  9. District probe: Jones High teacher had sex with student

    Former Jones High School Teacher of the Year Hugh Broomes has been fired after a district investigation found he had sex with a student.
    Former Jones High School Teacher of the Year Hugh Broomes has been fired after a district investigation found he had sex with a student. He was fired April 23 after a district investigation found he was texting the student, a minor, on her cellphone...

    Tags: Prosecution, Medical Research, Students, Teachers, Witnesses

    10. May 10, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  10. Vitti discusses blueprint to improve planning between Duval schools

    The Florida Times-Union
    Starting this fall, all 183 Duval County schools will not be lumped in clusters based on grades taught in the school. Instead, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti is grouping schools into four "areas" based on how elementary school students have typically...

    Tags: Duval County, Teachers, Students, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Teaching and Learning

    11. May 10, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  11. Jackson: Triumphant Legg has skeptics

    The Tampa Tribune
    John Legg, fresh (and remarkably energized, considering) from his debut in the Legislature's upper chamber, has returned to his two-county district feeling -- there is no other word for it -- triumphant. And why not? Following the hurly-burly that saw...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Elections, Tampa, Politics

    12. May 9, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  12. Elementary rock band jams out for a cause

    You don't always need colored hair, tattoos or a wild personality to be a rock star.
    You don't always need colored hair, tattoos or a wild personality to be a rock star. At Silver Shores Elementary in Miramar, being just over 4-feet tall, 10 years old and wearing a pink tutu will do. "Rock stars, they can be people just like us,...

    Tags: Music, Entertainment, Education, Katy Perry, Students

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