“What Got Us Here, Won’t Get Us There” – Florida’s 8th Grade NAEP Disaster
“What got you here, won’t get you there.” – Marshall Goldsmith, World-renowned business educator and coach While Florida’s leadership…
Florida: Where Legislators Treat Permanence as an Illusion – SB86
A History of Florida’s Bright Futures Legislation from 2016 to Today. A tale of two testimonies: 1. Senator…
Is it Time for Florida to Repeal the Online Graduation Requirement?
At a recent White House Roundtable, entitled “Kids First: Getting America’s Children Safely Back to School,” Florida’s Commissioner…
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…
Bending the Rules: How the FL Senate Passed Voucher Expansion
On the last regular day of session, 3/13/2020, after an informal recess, with a quorum of just 34…
$1.1 Billion is A Lot of Money and 170,000 is A Lot of Students
On Wednesday evening, the Florida Senate took up HB7067, this year’s voucher expansion bill which seeks to quadruple…
Committee Week 5: A few Committees Hear Bills, Some Remain on Hiatus
It is Committee Week #5 and despite the Governor’s insistence that this will be “The Year of the…
About That Funding for the Governor’s New Teacher Compensation Scheme…
On 10/16/2019, Suzanne Pridgeon, Deputy Commissioner, Finance and Operations, Florida Department of Education (FLDOE), presented the Florida State Board of…
Why is Rep. Fischer Hiding Alternate Charter School Authorization in HB1197?
Article IX, Section 4, of the Florida Constitution mandates that elected school boards “shall operate, control and supervise…
The Senate Train Pulls out of the Station.
Last week several members of the Florida Senate Education Committee held a press conference where they presented their…
Meet Florida’s (Scary) New Ed Leadership
The Orlando Sentinel published a scathing article this week, calling newly appointed Chair of the Florida House’s Chair…
Happy Holidays from Accountabaloney!
This is a holiday message from your friends at Accountabaloney. We hope you will take the time over…
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