Posted on April 24th, 2015 by
Thomas Kennedy
Washington Post: Citrus is AGAIN among America’s Most Challenging High Schools 2015 Today we learned that all three of our high schools in Citrus County were again recognized by the Washington Post as “America’s Most Challenging High Schools”. Of the 26,400 high schools in the US, about 2,300 are recognized. Rankings are based on the […]
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Posted on April 24th, 2015 by
Thomas Kennedy
Citrus School’s Teacher Awarded Prestigious and Highly Competitive- ‘Apple Distinguished Educator’ This week Dan Koch ELA teacher at Citrus Springs Middle School, was award ‘Class of 2015 Apple Distinguished Educator’. (Follow this link to learn about the ADE program: https://www.apple.com/education/apple-distinguished-educator/) This is an enormous recognition and most challenging competition. There are only approximately 75 ADE […]
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Posted on April 21st, 2015 by
Thomas Kennedy
Legislature’s Fix Is Not Enough Teachers will still be accountable for this year’s FSA Now that Governor Scott has signed HB7069 into law—school districts and the department of education have begun sifting through the language. As we review the changes what I can’t help but ask about the law is, “how did this positively reduce […]
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Posted on April 14th, 2015 by
Thomas Kennedy
Citrus Schools First Day of School is still August 10th, 2015 for the 2015-2016 school year While other districts in Florida have or are looking to move the start of their school date to early August, Citrus Schools because we are a High-Preforming School District had received a waiver to begin early and we had […]
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Posted on April 14th, 2015 by
Thomas Kennedy
Gov. Scott signed HB7069 into law, conceded work still needs to be done “I agree with many teachers and parents who say we have too many tests, and while this legislation is a great step forward, we will keep working to make sure Florida students are not over tested”, Gov. Scott said in a statement. […]
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Posted on April 9th, 2015 by
Thomas Kennedy
ALERT — Legislature Unexpectedly Passed Assessment & Accountability Bill REVISED at 5:30am|4/10/2015 In an unexpected action, today the Florida House PASSED HB 7069 relating to Education Accountability. The bill has now passed both chambers of the Legislature and is on its way to Governor Scott for his approval. This decision to take up the bill today came as a surprise […]
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