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Pinellas gets higher grades in 18 schools but keeps its C.

Source: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times, Jul 21 2012, 5:37pm CDT

Nine Pinellas County schools rose from a B to an A and a total of 18 saw improvement when the state recalculated accountability grades, according to a notice issued late Friday night. While Pinellas and Hernando kept their d ...

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Clay students posted mixed results in FCAT

Source: Jacksonville.com  |   May 25 2013, 9:34am CDT

Preliminary data indicates Clay County students did well in some subjects but not well in others as measured by Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test scores released Friday. District administrators are still crunching the numbers of the scores but were ...

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County breaks ground on first Nocatee school

Source: Jacksonville.com  |   May 25 2013, 8:30am CDT

The first school in the Nocatee community is slated to open at the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year. St. Johns County School District officials held a groundbreaking ceremony May 20 for the new K-8 School “II,” located at 105 Greenleaf Dr ...

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"The strength of our accountability system depends on the partnership between school districts and the department, and these revisions are a direct result of that process."


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Teachers' raises may be riding on FCAT results | Search results; video

Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel  |   May 25 2013, 8:05am CDT

This year, these scores might not affect only students — lower marks could mean no pay raises for teachers. The state released the first wave of Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test scores Friday: reading and ...

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'Freedom comes at a cost'

Source: St. Augustine.com  |   May 24 2013, 11:35pm CDT

In a pre-Memorial Day tribute Friday to the 1.2 million Americans who died fighting for their country since the Revolutionary War — and to all living veterans — Liberty Pines Academy students from kindergarten through eighth gr ...

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Pineloch Elementary: Adorable moment 4th graders are surprised with new bikes from local charity

Source: Daily Mail - UK  |   May 24 2013, 4:40pm CDT

19 children are all students of Florida teacher whose name was drawn in a raffle held by local charity, A Gift For TeachingMost of the elementary school students are on free or reduced lunches and have never owned a bike before Nineteen fourt ...

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Bennett Ready To ‘Drill Into The Data’ To Improve FCAT Reading Scores

Source: State Impact Florida  |   May 24 2013, 3:18pm CDT

Students get one more year of the FCAT, then they begin taking Common Core assessments. “While we have relatively static third grade reading and math scores, we think the writing component is a real step forward,” Ben ...

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Trouble with the Curve

Source: PrawfsBlawg  |   May 24 2013, 2:34pm CDT

Here are my problems with the curve -- by which I mean a strict curve requiring x% As, x% A-, etc. all the way down to the lowest grades, and not something like a "target mean grade." First, it corresponds to nothing at all. I' ...

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'Court' at Florida school acquits Wicked Witch

Source: United Press International  |   May 24 2013, 2:11pm CDT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 24 (UPI) -- A "court" comprised of students at a Florida school found the Wicked Witch of the West "not guilty by reason of insanity" on an attempted murder charge. Mark Haynes, a seventh grade literature teacher at St. Anthon ...

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State releases FCAT scores

Source: Local10 Miami  |   May 24 2013, 1:01pm CDT

Third-grade math and reading scores on Florida's standardized test have remained static, while writing scores show a significant jump. Results released Friday show less than two-thirds of Florida's third grade students are performing at a satis ...

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