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No hope from Schools of Hope?
House Speaker Corcoran wants ‘Schools of Hope’, but those charters, like KIPP and SEED, have little interest in coming to Florida. According to an article in Politico, KIPP likes to recruit one grade at a time and keep those who survive their no nonsense program. SEED is a boarding school. Schools like these do not turn around struggling public schools, they select the more promising children and leave the rest.
Separate and Unequal Destruction
Schools of Hope is the latest panacea in Florida for economically and racially segregated schools. Low performing schools can either be closed or turned into charters. These charters, called Schools of Hope would be run by charters like KIPP that operate no-nonsense schools in low income areas. Students who survive the harsh discipline policies can do well. The others, often as many as forty percent of students, are counseled to leave school. What happens to these students?
PreK bill focuses on training
SB 468 Stargel will provide funds for training for early learning program teachers, principals and reading coaches. These are the Voluntary PreK programs for four-year olds. Children will be screened for pre reading and math skills and will be eligible for repeating the VPK program if the parents agree. Parents will be given pre and post readiness test results.
Increase FSA passing standards?
Senate bill SB 926 contains a phrase that changes the name of the level 3 on the FSA from ‘satisfactory’ to ‘proficient’. What does that mean? Amendment # 351834 was filed to find out.
It asks the Commissioner of Education to study achievement levels and their relationship to student performance and success. The Commissioner is charged to recommend changes in the meaning of the achievement levels to the Governor and the Speaker, the President of the Senate and the State Board of Education by July 2018.
This is the procedure that is required in existing law to change performance standards on the FSA. It has been tried before. What would the approximate impact be?
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