A Look Ahead to Committee Week #3 – February 1-5, 2021.
Committee Week #3 falls right on the tail of Committee Week #2. There will be more details on…
Will SB48 Make Educating Your Child More Difficult Than Finding A Covid Vaccine?
“If you think finding a Covid vaccine for your grandparents is difficult, wait till you have to compete…
“Testing Students This Spring Would Be A Mistake”- Especially in Florida
Lorrie A. Shepard, PhD is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in their Research and Evaluation Methodology…
Covid, NAEP and Mandated State Assessments
Last week, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) postponed the scheduled January 2021 administration of the National Assessment…
Who is Sponsoring that Free Event?
This week I received a newsletter, from a statewide school board association, which included an invitation to attend…
School Boards, Public Schools, Democracy and Home Rule.
Over the past 3 years, Florida’s legislators have filed more than 100 bills that try to strip away…
Voting For The Pendulum to Swing
Once again, today’s blog is inspired by a recent “Have You Heard” podcast, entitled “The Rich and the…
Is the push to reopen schools really a plot to dismantle them? Floridians want to know.
“Have You Heard” is a fantastic podcast which focuses on current education “reform” trends and the unintended consequences…
Ignore the Vultures: Let Us Get to Work Saving Our Schools.
While the privatization vultures are circling, dreaming of ways to funnel Covid recovery funds towards their pet projects…
Imagining the “Wild West of Unregulated, Unaccountable Voucher Schools” in Cyberspace
In the spirit of never letting a good crisis go to waste, vultures are circling our public schools…
Vultures are Circling Over Our Brick and Mortar Schools
As we recently wrote, free-market economist Milton Friedman once said “Only a crisis — actual or perceived —…
No one wants to go back… to the status quo
A few weeks ago, in the midst of the COVID pandemic, a friend shared this meme: Then, this…
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