Five Things To Know About Florida’s New Education Requirements
Joe Raedle / Getty News ImagesTeachers protest budget cuts and Senate bill 736 -- now law -- in Miami in March. The new teacher evaluations and merit pay plans school districts are rolling out this...
View ArticleGaming the Merit Pay System
Joe Raedle / Getty News ImagesTeachers protest budget cuts and Senate bill 736 -- now law -- in Miami in March. Teacher merit pay systems need less objectivity and more accountability if they are to...
View ArticleRead the Emails Between Suspended Hillsborough Teacher and Union Officials
A Hillsborough County high school teacher suspended last week over his objection to a new evaluation has apparently posted his emails with school and union officials online. Newsome High School teacher...
View ArticleChallenge To Teacher Merit Pay Rule Underway In Tallahassee
Attorneys listen to the judge at the merit pay hearing. A judge in Tallahassee is hearing a legal challenge to a state rule regarding teacher evaluations and merit pay. The Florida Legislature passed...
View ArticleFlorida Senate President Says Teachers Shouldn’t Expect An Even Playing Field
Jordan Michael/StateImpact FloridaSenate President Don Gaetz says students and teachers should have school choice options. Supporters say the charter school bill that has a good chance of passing...
View ArticleCharter Schools Say Their Teachers Will Be Evaluated The Same As District...
Colin_K / FlickrState laws sets standards for public school teacher evaluations. Whether charter school teachers will be evaluated on par with their traditional public school counterparts is...
View ArticleFlorida Schools Get ‘A Lot Of Flexibility’ Designing Teacher Evaluations
FL Parental School Choice Consortium/flickrMike Kooi with the Florida Department of Education says districts may come up with a variety of teacher evaluation plans, as long as they comply with the...
View ArticleGovernor: ‘We Don’t Want A War On Teachers; We Want A War On Failure’
Jordan Michael/StateImpact FloridaGov. Rick Scott addresses the Florida Legislature in his third State of the State speech. Gov. Rick Scott delivered his State of the State speech this morning before...
View ArticleHouse Speaker On Proposed Budget: ‘Education Is The Big Winner’
Tom Urban/News Service of FloridaSpeaker Will Weatherford says the House budget proposal goes above and beyond what Gov. Rick Scott requested when he asked lawmakers to prioritize education. The...
View ArticleLawmaker Files Bill To Exempt Teacher Evaluation Data From Public Records
Marcin Winchary / FlickrA Florida lawmaker has filed a bill that would exempt teacher evaluation data from open record laws. A Florida lawmaker has filed a bill which would keep teacher evaluation data...
View ArticleTeachers Union Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Florida Teacher Evaluations
Kim Cook/Facebook.com1st grade teacher Kim Cook posted this picture on Facebook after her unsatisfactory evaluation, and it went viral. Much of her evaluation was based on standardized test scores for...
View ArticleStudy: Error Rate Of Test-Based Teacher Evaluations High, But Might Still Be...
wwarby / FlickrThe error rates of test score-based teacher evaluations is "quite high" according to a new report. But the evaluation may still be better than traditional performance measures. A new...
View ArticleWhat The Florida Teacher Evaluation Lawsuit Could Mean For Other States
The Florida Education Association’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s test-based teacher evaluations — if successful — could become a model for teacher’s union across the...
View ArticleTeachers Praise Gov. Scott in New Online Ad
The Republican Party of Florida is out with a new web ad featuring teachers praising Gov. Rick Scott. The teachers aren’t identified, but appear to have been recorded at the recent teacher summit Scott...
View ArticleSchool Funding, Teacher Evaluations Key Issues Early in Governor’s Race
Charlie Crist has to close a sale. The one-time Republican governor now wants to become governor as a Democrat. But he needs to convince Democrats he’s now one of them if he has any chance of...
View ArticleThe Florida Education Stories To Watch In 2014
Implementing New Common Core Standards Florida is one of 45 states that have fully adopted new math, English and literacy standards known as Common Core. Political opposition to the standards built...
View ArticleTwo New Studies Find Problems With Teacher Evaluations
Two new national studies raise questions about the how accurate modern teacher evaluations are. The first study, from the University of Southern California’s Morgan Polikoff and the University of...
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