Times: latest on Florida’s Best and Brightest bonus

Transcripts are now okay… CRHS Teacher sits for ACT

Citrus County Schools received an email today from the Florida Department of Education on our challenge to the FL-DOE’s Technical Assistance Paper which stated, “An official record is the original score report from ACT or the College Board (SAT)”, and implied that official school transcripts would not meet the FL-DOE’s definition of “official record”.   Today’s email from FL-DOE stated, “Records or transcripts are acceptable as official documents“.  This is a far more common sense approach and I am pleased with FL-DOE’s replay to Citrus Schools challenge on this issue.

In addition, I encourage you to read the article below by the Tampa Bay Times about Citrus County’s own Tim Byrne a Crystal River High School chemistry teacher who will be taking the ACT test with his students this weekend in hopes of scoring high enough to received the Florida’s Best and Brightest bonus.

We wish him much success on Saturday– regardless of what score the ACT determines– Mr. Byrne is 100% in my book for what he does everyday in his classroom, not just how he does on a college entrance assessment.

Read the article at: http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/whats-the-latest-on-floridas-best-and-brightest-bonus/2244959

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