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Florida roundup: Technology, growth, testing and more
Technology. StateImpact delves into E-rate, the obscure funding source helping schools go wireless. Hillsborough officials say they’ve worked most of the kinks out of their online gradebook software....
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Florida roundup: Lawsuits, magnet schools, school grades and more
Lawsuits. The statewide teachers union is fighting a new school choice law in court over the way the Legislature passed it. Associated Press. News Service of Florida. Orlando Sentinel. Saint...
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Florida roundup: Scholarship accounts, school choice, Common Core and more
Personal Learning Scholarship Accounts. Florida’s newest school choice program officially opened Friday. WCJB. Sentinel School Zone. redefinED. State Sen. Andy Gardiner explains the program on the...
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Parents of students with special needs set to battle FL teachers union
Parents of students with significant special needs, including autism, Down syndrome and cerebral palsy, are taking on the Florida teachers union over a new educational choice program. Six families from...
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Union lawsuit: It’s about winning, not how the game is played
Give Joanne McCall credit for acknowledging that the Florida Education Association opposes private learning options for both low-income and special needs students, but let’s not pretend the union’s...
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Florida roundup: Lawsuits, testing, school choice and more
Lawsuits. The statewide teachers union, school boards association and other groups are preparing to announce the first direct constitutional challenge to Florida’s tax credit scholarship program....
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Republican offers to serve as ‘bridge’ to teachers union on FL school choice...
Citing concern for low-income children whose school choice scholarships are threatened by a recently filed lawsuit, a key Republican legislator is offering to play the role of peacemaker with the...
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Howard Fuller: Parental choice fight in Florida is national issue
If its import wasn’t apparent already, parental choice leader Howard Fuller said Florida should be a national battleground after the Florida School Boards Association, Florida Education Association...
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Florida roundup: Charter schools, campaigns, STEM and more
Charter schools. Collier families have few charter options available. Naples Daily News. Palm Beach charter schools are scrutinized for racial balance. Palm Beach Post. Only one charter school...
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FL’s school choice scholarship program is far cry from a ‘moneymaker’
FEA Vice President Joanne McCall Florida Education Association Vice President Joanne McCall has an obvious motive to discredit the nonprofit that administers a scholarship program she is suing, but her...
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Florida roundup: Charter schools, school improvement, teachers unions and more
Charter schools. ITT Technical Institute wants to try its hand operating charter schools in Florida and elsewhere. NPR. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel cheers efforts to place new limits on charter...
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Florida schools roundup: PLSAs, lawsuits, testing and more
PLSAs. More than 1,200 special needs students have received funding for their Personal Learning Scholarship Accounts, and lawmakers are getting updates in Tallahassee. WFSU. The PLSA program is...
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Union dropping lawsuit against Florida school choice legislation
The legal cloud over Florida’s new special needs scholarship accounts has lifted, as the Florida Education Association has announced it won’t appeal a judge’s ruling dismissing a lawsuit challenging...
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Florida schools roundup: Lawsuits, rankings, teacher pay and more
Lawsuits. The Florida Education Association says it will drop one of its school choice lawsuits. Associated Press. News Service of Florida. Palm Beach Post. Saint Petersblog. Scripps/Tribune....
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Competition, growth, and Florida’s new legal battles over school choice
Florida’s public charter schools and tax credit scholarships have a few things in common. Both are growing by at least ten thousand students a year. And both are facing new legal hurdles, or in the...
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Former justice, union leader debate Florida school choice lawsuit
The logic that led the Florida’s Supreme Court to strike down a school voucher program should not apply to tax credit scholarships, which face a new legal challenge, according to a former justice who...
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What to watch for as Florida court hears arguments on tax credit scholarships
The lawsuit that challenges a scholarship program serving 70,000 low-income children in Florida heads to a Tallahassee courtroom this afternoon. The issue before Leon Circuit Judge George Reynolds will...
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The distorted history of Florida tax credit scholarships
In a new appellate brief asking the courts to throw out a 14-year-old scholarship serving 78,000 of the state’s most economically disadvantaged students, lawyers for Florida’s teachers union have...
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Florida roundup: Failure factories, teachers unions, discipline and more
Failure factories. The latest Tampa Bay Times investigation installment looks at teacher quality in segregated schools. Teachers unions. The Florida Education Association taps new leadership....
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Florida schools roundup: Grades, charters, unions and more
School grade concerns: The Seminole County School Board is urging Gov. Rick Scott to suspend the issuing of grades this school year due to concerns about the reliability of the Florida Standards...
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