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New Charter School Expansion Bill Filed in Florida
New legislation regarding charter schools is beginning to appear in the Florida Legislature. This one makes it easier for charters designated as ‘high performing’ to expand. The bill does give districts some ability to designate needed charters.
This is a bill to watch. A summary and link to the bill follows.
Florida Proposes Expanded Child Care
Imagine, a billion 
dollars for little children. This is the amount proposed in Governor Scott’s new budget. If passed by the legislature, school readiness programs will get larger and better.
The Senate Education Committee has passed out a bill on how to improve how day care centers are run.
Read on to see what is possible.
The Horns of a Dilemma?
Over and over we hear that testing narrows the curriculum, provokes anxiety rather than enthusiasm for learning, drives teachers out of the classroom, all in the name of improving student achievement.
Why do so many educators and politicians persist in an approach whose effectiveness is yet to be validated? A clearly articulated rationale for annual testing is needed. One appeared in the New York Times written by a former advisor to the U.S. Department of Education. It lays out the administration’s rationale.
Another Bill to Review Federal and State Testing Policies
A new bill has been introduced in Congress to reduce testing. This one funds efforts by states to review and eliminate redundant and low quality tests. It is sponsored by Senator Baldwin (WI) and Representative Bonamici (OR).
The bill is called the “Support Making Assessments Reliable and Timely (SMART)” act. According to Rep. Bonamici’s website, the bill has bipartisan support. The press release does not explain why states would need federal money to do a review of their tests.
This bill is quite different from the Gibson and Sinema bill that seeks to reduce federally mandated annual assessments.
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