Florida education news: Pinellas superintendent plans, USF relief, pension ruling and more
THIS TIME HE MEANS IT: Pinellas superintendent John Stewart changes his mind again, telling School Board members he will only stay through December.
‘GOOD NEWS’ FOR USF: University of South Florida president
Judy Genshaft declares success after lawmakers agree to fairly distribute cuts to state universities and give USF additional dollars to deal with the transition toward an independent Florida Polytechnic.
PENSION RULING: A judge
rules that the decision last year to cut public employee salaries was an unconstitutional breach of the state's contract and orders the money returned with interest. The ruling
puts local workers in limbo, the
Gainseville Sun reports.
CHARTER IN CROSSHAIRS: A unanimous Pinellas School Board
votes to issue Life Force Arts and Technology Academy a 90-day notice of termination.
OVER BEFORE IT STARTS? A large charter school management firm that won reluctant approval to open a school in Pasco County
is given two weeks to complete contract negotiations for its proposed K-8 school.
RECOGNITION MONEY NIGHTMARE: Central High School in Brooksville
won’t get to decide how to spend its recognition money after missing the deadline to submit a plan to the state.
MOURNING A LOSS: St. Petersburg College
grieves for Maria Osterhoudt, a professor who was shot and killed last week.
UGLY BUDGET: The proposed state budget set for a final vote on Friday
shortchanges Florida’s future, the
Times editorializes.
FLORIDA FROM AFAR: The hit to higher education budgets here is
drawing national coverage, such as this
New York Times summary.
GAUGING GROWTH: Measuring students’ fall-to-spring learning gains
must be part of any process that claims to accurately represent progress, former Miami-Dade superintendent Octavio Visiedo argues in this guest column for the
Miami Herald.
SHACKLED? States such as Florida and Michigan that got waivers from No Child Left Behind
might be putting themselves in a jam by agreeing to more oversight, the
Detroit News editorializes.
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