How not to reform K-12 teacher tenure, and how to do it right
The blog management system here tells me that I started this entry on April 2, which tells you something about the intervening 12 days. We’re on the edge of a potential governor’s veto of Senate Bill 6 in Florida. As I’ve written before, SB 6 takes several issues and marches several bridges too far. Most […]
Brief note on iPad: bye, Flash!
The iPad is definitely awkward in some respects. I am currently typing this entry on a software keyboard, which is a bit clunky in large part because I am a touch typist. But this will definitely take off, and the primary result is that all of the educational sites built on Flash are inaccessible. So-called […]
Florida House budget wants public employees to delay retirement
This one’s an odd cut-your-nose-to-spite-your-face maneuver: the budget that the Florida House passed yesterday cuts health subsidies to retirees because legislative leaders are desperate to balance the budget without raising taxes, but the House budget maintains complete state support of premiums for about 27,000 state employees, including state legislators. (Disclosure: I’m not among those who get […]
Hilda Turner and why teachers are skeptical of John Thrasher’s motives
In Tampa, there is a five-year-old elementary school named after the late Hilda Turner. The students attending Turner Elementary may not know why it’s named after her, or who she was. Most legislators in the capitol probably don’t know about her case against the all-white Hillsborough school board in the early 1940s and why the […]