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More Charter Profiteering in Palm Beach
A charter school founder in Palm Beach said he made ‘mistakes’ in the interest of getting the school open last year. His financial history was not good; he emerged from bankruptcy in 2010 and was running a small business for acting and modeling classes.
Yet, he could get loans to buy a former Christian school, create three for-profit companies and open Eagle Arts Academy. How it was done is described as ‘legal’, but is it ethical to blatantly skirt the law? Should the school district have been able to intervene? You decide…Here are the facts as reported in the Palm Beach Post. Clearly, the founder’s financial position has improved.
Broward County Teacher Evaluations Go Down, Student Learning Goes Up. WHAT??
Submitted by Jane Koszoru
Broward County Public Schools improved from a ‘C’ to a ‘B’ grade for 2013-14.student achievement. Based on district wide gains in reading and math FCAT scores, students, teachers and schools should be proud. Oddly enough, there is widespread astonishment that student scores went up, and teacher evaluations went down–way down.
One half of a teacher’s evaluation was based on student achievement gains and the rest was based on instructional practice. Districts design the instructional practice component. In Broward, it appears that formal and informal classroom observations are used. There is a web site that has links to each district’s process. They are not the same. Yet, the legislature wants merit pay for the highest performing teachers.
Jane Koszoruc from the Broward County LWV relates the results. It has me scratching my head!
Who is Fair and Who is Not? A Study on Educational Funding
Many educational problems come down to money issues–how much is there, how much is needed, who has it? Which states are fair; which are not?
What does ‘fairness’ mean? School Funding Fairness shows how policies differ in a state by state report.
Florida gets it ‘half right’. How does your state rank?
Obama Opposes Both Senate and House Education Bills
President Obama says he will veto the House version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act (ESEA). He does not like the Senate version either.
Suppose nothing happens, no bill is passed, then what?
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