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Lee County school board first in Fla. to opt out of testing; grave concerns...
On a 3-2 vote Wednesday night the Lee County School Board has become the first in the state to opt its district out of all statewide standardized tests, according to the local newspaper the...
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Lee County rescinds opt out of testing vote, but battle not over
Update: Tuesday morning, the Lee County School Board reversed itself on the matter of opting out of required state testing, Mary Fischer said that she changed her mind after more research into the...
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Will female majority rule PBC school board? Does it matter?
In November, voters will determine whether Palm Beach County’s seven-member School Board will continue with a female majority – voting in Erica Whitfield to replace Jennifer Prior Brown – or swing to...
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PBC school board set to adopt $2.26B budget Wed.
The Palm Beach County School District continues to face grim prospects in its capital budget, due largely to constraints imposed in recent years by the state. Wednesday night, the district’s board will...
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3 things to watch from the PBC School Board today
Here are three things to look for from the Palm Beach County School Board today: To opt-out or not? At 2 p.m. the board holds a workshop to discuss opting out of state mandated tests. It’s a...
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PBC School Board sounds off on testing; what members said while not opting out
They won’t be opting out of Florida’s testing, but the Palm Beach County School Board members sure would like to see it change – and they didn’t keep their sentiments brief. Here’s a sampling from...
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Florida suspends test for kindergartners; teacher who refused to test wasn’t...
Update: The state has dropped the standardized test for kindergartners that has given a multitude of teachers such difficulty at the beginning of this school year. Florida’s Education Commissioner Pam...
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Read PBC School Board’s 2-page hate (testing) letter to Fl. Gov
Wednesday night the Palm Beach County School Board passed a two-page resolution that began with a long list of ‘whereas’-es that described the multitude of issues they have with the state’s...
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Round up: Barbieri challenges WPB to do better with its students; Robinson...
Some interesting conversation highlights from Wednesday’s School Board special meeting. 1. Board member Karen Brill declared she was fed up with the city of West Palm Beach’s repeated need to extend...
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Another opportunity for parents to sound off on testing added to list of...
Per school board member Frank Barbieri’s request, a fifth ‘community input’ meeting has been added. The meetings are intended to share information and gather the public’s concerns and comments about...
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Thoughts on state mandated tests in school? 2nd parent meeting tonight
Monday night’s community input meeting at Boynton Beach High School drew about three dozen parents, many of whom are also teachers. The stories told included not having the proper text books, seeing...
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Parents-on-testing meetings make stop in the Glades tonight
Parents sound off on testing Night 3. Tonight, the Palm Beach County School District asks parents in the Glades to share their thoughts on the testing. It’s the third of five community input meetings...
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What courses, at which schools are being taught by out-of-field teachers?
Who’s teaching that? Of the 13,520 teachers in the Palm Beach County School District, 551 are teaching out-of-field. That’s just over 4 percent – slightly more than last year which clocked in at 3.9...
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Parents can sound-off on testing; 4th meeting goes to Royal Palm Beach
At last week’s meeting in Boynton Beach parents, teachers held back tears of frustration. (Photo by Allen Eyestone) So far, the Palm Beach County School District has heard from parents in Boynton...
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Meeting extra: Common Core disorder? Simple math in 15 not-simple steps?
Some parents and teachers thought they came to Monday night’s meeting in Royal Palm Beach to listen. Others were so determined to get their message out they wrote it out ahead of time. All had...
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Who’s that running in Dist. 4 school race? ‘Sample Ballot’ stamp cuts...
Update: The sample ballots will be reprinted and mailed this week, says Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher. That’s 700,000 ballots – more than $59,000 in postage, she said. For the...
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Is West Palm Beach’s charter school sunk? Board not set to give more extensions
Update at 3 p.m.: The School Board isn’t extending the city’s time to move forward on a charter school and West Palm Beach city spokesman Elliot Cohen says the city is no longer asking for another...
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Last of 5 meetings to sound off on state testing system tonight
Parent Lisa Johnson speaking at the first meeting. (Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post) The last of five meetings where parents and teachers can air their grievances with the state’s accountability...
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$386K owed, 2 teachers suspended and more things you missed at Wednesday’s...
The Palm Beach County School Board had several items on their plates yesterday, not just the discussion of shrinking enrollment at three Boynton-Delray corridor middle schools (staff plans to fix the...
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5 things to watch for when the PBC School Board meets Tuesday
The School Board is meeting on a Tuesday instead of a Wednesday this week, which means if you haven’t studied up on the agenda, you may want a cheat sheet. Here are five items to watch for: 1. Meet...
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