| Florida's Latest Strategy for Improving Schools Promises More of the Same — and Uncertain Results |
Florida policymakers are embarking on another in a long series of K-12 education reform efforts likely to be difficult to implement and of uncertain benefit. The next steps planned in Florida's accountability-based education strategy will result in new standards, new tests, and renewed attempts to base teacher pay on student test scores. Questions exist not only about the strategy itself, but also about whether schools are funded well enough to make the kind of performance gains being sought. > Read the report. |
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