If Florida wants to prosper in this century, we cannot skimp on education funding.Yet Florida ranks dead last on effective funding for higher education as well as ranking behind most of the nation on K-12 per-pupil funding and teacher salaries.That is one of the key lessons pulled from a...
Education Funding Is on Track in California, Texas and Florida.The article reports on the outlook for federal aid to education for instructional materials in California, Texas, and Florida as publishers expect sales to grow up after an improved textbook adoption opportunity in 2007. The textbook ...
By Dr. Rachel Pienta In another year, Florida might be buzzing over a special session on schools. Concerns related to funding and testing continue to be hot button issues. This year, however, education has taken a back seat to health care and Medicaid expansion. That said, it does not mea...
to attend the Florida Institute of Technology. "It is something that comes with the decision of entering a new education system. Adjusting to all these terms is overwhelming and humbling at first because you go back to learning from scratch," says Medina, who graduated with...
week by House Education Chair Mark White (R-Memphis) if made law, would make more families eligible to participate in the state’s Education Savings Account (ESA) program. Often referred to as “vouchers”, ESAs provide funding to eligible families to enroll their children in private schools....
To gain a better understanding of online education status during and after the pandemic outbreak, this paper analyzed the data from a recent survey conducted in the state of Florida in May 2020. In particular, we focused on college students’ perception of productivity changes, benefits, challenges...
The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand how educational scaffolding may explain changing patterns of student success in mathematics in the era of developmental education (DE or remediation) reform in Florida College System (FCS) institutions. Specifically, we apply the concept of scaffol...
Government schools in WA will receive an extra $777m under the deal. TheTurnbull government’s Gonski 2.0 education reformsrequired states to fund public schools at 75% of the SRS on top of the federal contribution of 20%,leaving a funding gap of at least 5%. ...
“change” model does not adjust for changes in school composition. This is a problem with the “change” model and highlights an advantage of the residual gain model. There are many clear examples of how student growth models can be explained to educators and the general public, such as ...
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday announced that Penny Schwinn, the former Tennessee Education Commissioner who resigned amid controversy in 2023, and made similar controversial departures from both Texas and Florida, would serve as his administration’s Deputy Secretary of Education. Trump made ...