Had Florida's new high school grading formula been in place last year, there would have been a whole lot of celebrating around these parts, especially in Pinellas.
According to the Florida Department of Education's latest simulation, obtained by the Gradebook, nine Pinellas high schools would have gotten B's (instead of two) and three [...]
Don’t miss J.B. Schramm and E. Kinny Zalesne in The Times on post-secondary preparation:
…the real revolution, tucked away in the Race to the Top guidelines released by the Department of Education last month, is that high school has a new mission. No longer is it enough just to graduate [...]
For years, for-profit colleges have pointed to the fact that they are accredited by independent agencies recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as proof that they provide a quality education. Why [...]
Being the federal education policy nerd that I am, I'm wading through a 367-page transcript of the technical assistance planning seminar the U.S. Department of Education held in Denver to help states understand the Race to the Top competition.
Since I attended a similar seminar in Baltimore, many of' [...]
A day after the U.S. Department of Education released three-year cohort default rates for federal student loans, for-profit college leaders and lobbyists are breathing a sigh of relief. Apparently their investors [...]
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education released a list of 36 states that plan to apply for Race to the Top Fund grants in Round 1. I blogged about this, making clear that the department's list wasn't necessarily the final word on Round 1 applicants for the' [...]
This past weekend the Senate passed the fiscal year 2010 omnibus appropriations bill, setting out spending levels for the majority of Department of Education programs for the spending period that began October [...]
As it sets its wheels in motion to win and implement a federal Race to the Top grant, the Florida Department of Education wants to make sure it covers all bases of the application.
That includes turning around the lowest-performing schools.. To fix them, the state must identify them. It turns [...]
When the proposal to expand the cohort default rate measurement from two years to three first came out, for-profit colleges protested vehemently that the new metric would paint them in an unfavorable light. A look at the new trail three-year rates released today by the U.S. Department of Education [...]
Many college students can’t do math or read well, write Sandra Stotsky and Ze’ev Wurman on Minding the Campus.
Estimates of those needing remedial classes before taking credit courses range from 30% of entering students to 40% of traditional undergraduates. . . .
A 2004 U.S. Department of Education study [...]
LOTS OF LETTERS: Outgoing St. Petersburg mayor Rick Baker has more than 130 letters of support, including from some prominent folks, for him to become the next president of St. Petersburg College.
'INSANE' TIME LINE: The Florida Department of Education asks school district leaders to signal [...]
BROOKSVILLE – Count Hernando in the race. Tentatively, anyway.
The School Board voted 3 to 1 Thursday to send a letter to the Florida Department of Education stating its intent to participate in the state’s effort to garner millions of grant dollars through the federal government’s Race to the Top program.
The [...]
After listening to the second half of the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top technical seminar, it's clear that there are many, many state-specific circumstances for which state teams want answers. South Dakota asked if Indian-chartered schools count as charter schools. Hawaii officials had a few questions [...]
We promised to keep a close watch on what is happening at the federal level, and now it begins to get interesting. And a bit scary, if you care about the future of public education.
The U.S. Department of Education announced its plan [...]
If Florida school districts want a share of the state's Race to the Top funds (up to $700 million, if the feds approve the state's request for the innovation grant), they need to let the Florida Department of Education know. Soon.
Overnight, the FLDOE sent out documents detailing the memorandum of [...]
I spent the morning in a U.S. Department of Education technical-assistance planning seminar on Race to the Top, and have picked up a lot of interesting tidbits. Many states are in attendance—including Hawaii, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Tennessee (including education commissioner Tim Webb), just to name [...]
I'm not sure that sending them to one of NYC's infamous rubber rooms is the right response, but that's apparently what the NYC department of education is doing with this pair of high school teachers who were allegedly caught by a janitor undressed and engaging in' [...]
A few years ago when there were calls for increased accountability coming from multiple places, including the U.S. Department of Education, one response was to point to the assessment of student engagement using the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). The NSSE results were cited as an example of accountability [...]
The federal government made nearly $100 billion available to states and school districts for various education programs through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA.) Since the Department of Education first made [...]
Dear Deborah,
We promised to keep a close watch on what is happening at the federal level, and now it begins to get interesting. And a bit scary, if you care about the future of public education.
The U.S. Department of Education announced its plan to spend at [...]
Just a week ago, the Florida Department of Education announced it would change the scores that high school students could get on the SAT or ACT to replace their exit-level FCAT results.
The replacement reading scores went up immediately for the entire Class of 2011 and beyond -- regardless of [...]
Those high schools had the most-improved rates in Pinellas in 2008-09 and also show some of the biggest two-year gains, according to Florida Department of Education data.
Lakewood High jumped 14.4 percentage points last year and 19.1 percentage points in two years, putting its overall rate at 85.5 percent. Dunedin moved [...]
In early December, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released the final requirements that states must use to award $3.546 billion in School Improvement Grants (SIG) to local school districts. Although the final notice governs the $3.546 billion appropriated in FY 2009 (including funds allocated under the American Recovery [...]
