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Every Student Success Act covers needs of foster children

Lynn Norman-Teck
News, Research & Publications
#EveryStudentSucceedsAct
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Excerpt from Fostering Academic Success for All – GettingSmart.com, June 21, 2016 – This year Congress replaced No Child Left Behind (NCLB) with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Few would deny that the greatest virtue of NCLB was the requirement to disaggregate student achievement data by subgroup; thus, shining an overdue spotlight on the achievement gap…
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Innovation has made our charter school thrive

Lynn Norman-Teck
Charter Schools in the News, News, Press releases
CSUSA, Innovation, Palm Beach School district
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Opinion piece by Jackson Self November 2015 – Palm Beach Post   Innovation. Webster’s defines the term as “The act or process of introducing new ideas, devices or methods.” In a charter school, we teach students that innovation is unique to the challenge. If the goal of innovating is to solve a problem, then isn’t school…
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Report says some states deserve better education rankings

Lynn Norman-Teck
Charter Schools in the News, News
Accountability, Assessment, Common Core, NAEP
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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores released in late October 2015 were worrisome.  But an article in the New York Times explains that the scores do not paint a complete picture because it doesn’t take into account that Florida is educating a more disadvantaged group of students than other states.  New York Times  October 27, 2015 By David Leonhardt NEW…
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A Victory For Students With Disabilities In Palm Beach County

Lynn Norman-Teck
Charter Schools in the News, News, Press releases
IDEA, students with disabilities
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL − After pressure from the Florida Charter School Alliance (FCSA), the Superintendent of Palm Beach County schools has decided to restore full IDEA funding for students with disabilities who attend charter schools. In September, the Palm Beach School district drastically cut the IDEA funding formula allocated to students attending charter schools.…
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FCSA testifies in support of high performing replication application

Lynn Norman-Teck
Charter Schools in the News, News, Press releases
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FCSA Director of Government Affairs, Ralph Arza, along with community leaders and parents testified in support of the Somerset Academy replication application at the Port St.Lucie school board meeting on Sept. 22.  The highest performing high school in the county, Somerset College Prep had submitted an application to open a middle school using a charter…
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State board members: Don’t flinch on tough FSA passing scores

Lynn Norman-Teck
Charter Schools in the News, News
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Orlando Sentinel 09/21/15 By Leslie Postal A majority of the State Board of Education sounded eager to set tough passing scores on Florida’s new state test during its meeting today. One board member even quoted the late Lawton Chiles, saying “we must not flinch” because setting high standards is what’s best for Florida’s public school…
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Charter schools blindsided by cuts to money for disabled students

Lynn Norman-Teck
Charter Schools in the News, News
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Palm Beach Post By Andrew Marra Palm Beach County’s public school system has abruptly slashed the money it distributes to charter schools for educating children with learning disabilities, leaving the schools scrambling to fill new holes in their budgets a month after classes began. School district administrators say that for more than a decade they…
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