Archive for September, 2015

Bring Your Dad to School Day

Bring Your Dad to School Day Dads and others get ‘schooled’ Today I had the honor of joining thousands of other dads (and those who are like dads) at one of our elementary schools to participate in the Florida Department of Education’s “Dads Take your child to school Day”. I got to take my wonderful […]

Dan Koch Receives Governor’s Shine Award

Dan Koch Receives Governor’s Shine Award On Tuesday Citrus Springs Middle School’s media specialist Dan Koch traveled to the Florida State Capital to meet with Governor Rick Scott and receive the Governor’s Shine Award.  We congratulate Mr. Koch on this outstanding award. In a press release from the Governor’s office on Tuesday, Governor Rick Scott […]

PTA joins Superintendents in loss of faith in school accountability system

PTA joins Superintendents in loss of faith in school accountability system “…Parents and community stakeholders will not continue to tolerate this mess” ~ Florida PTA Florida PTA joined the Florida Association of District School Superintendents in being fed up with the Florida education accountability system and do not want the test scores from the new […]

Florida Superintendents troubled by state’s education accountability system

Florida Superintendents troubled by state’s education accountability system Thursday all 67 superintendents spent almost four hours at Florida Association of District School Superintendents shared about all the problems that happened when their students took the Florida Standards Assessments in 2015.  In addition superintendents expressed frustration after reading the validity study which said students would be […]

FL Sen. Legg: stop harping (about FSA)

FL Sen. Legg: stop harping (about FSA) The public has sent 45,000 letters saying the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) should not be used to grade anyone, and now Florida Sen. Legg says “stop harping” about the FSA. This gives me hope that our messages are being hear by some, and that some in the Florida […]

Florida House Educational Committee Say Regarding Testing: No Opting Out! But should there be?

Florida House Educational Committee Say Regarding Testing: No Opting Out! But should there be? “So if you want to have your child learn another way or do something different, you always have the option to take them (out). School boards should not be … saying, ‘Well, okay’. There is NO okay!” ~ Florida Rep. Marlene […]