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Fund All Public School Students Fairly

Lynn Norman-Teck
Press releases
#Biden, #charterschoolfunding, #Excelined, #studentfunding, CSP, IDEA
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Florida Supporters of Charter Schools Ask Congressional Delegation to Fund All Public School Students Fairly July 30, 2021   Patricia Levesque, Executive Director of the Foundation for Florida’s Future, issued the following statement: “Today, a broad coalition of organizations and schools sent a letter to Florida’s Congressional delegation, urging they treat all public school students equally by…
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State Board of Education Puts Hillsborough Students First

Lynn Norman-Teck
Press releases
#Excelined, #parentpower, #studentsfirst, @ExcelinAction #FoundationforFloridasFuture, @GovDeSatnis, @HillsboroughSch, @publiccharter, @publiccharters, @RichardCorcoran
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Hillsborough School Board’s move to close charter schools and strip Tampa-area families of school choice is illegal. Statement from Lynn Norman-Teck, Executive Director of the Florida Charter School Alliance, on today’s unanimous vote by the State Board of Education finding the Hillsborough school board’s decision to close four public charter schools was illegal.  July 14,…
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Jeb Bush’s A+ Plan for Education transformed the state’s schools to students’ benefit. Today, other states should look to Florida as a model.

Lynn Norman-Teck
Research & Publications
#Excelined, A+ Plan, Accountability, Foundation for Florida's Future, Jeb Bush
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June 21, 2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of Florida’s A+ Plan for Education. Below is an Opinion piece by Jeb Bush published in June 20, 2019 in USA Today See whether you can answer this basic math question: If a baseball game starts at noon and takes 3 ½ hours to play, what…
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Nearly 80 Percent of Florida Voters Want Choice in Education

Lynn Norman-Teck
Research & Publications
#Excelined, #schoolchoice, Voters want choice in education
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New poll says voters overwhelmingly support giving parents opportunity to choose where they send their children to school A new statewide survey of 800 registered voters in Florida released today found that nearly 80 percent of voters support allowing parents to choose a school instead of sending them to a school based on their zip code.   “The vast majority of voters—nearly 80 percent—believe parents should…
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Transitioning to Student-Centered Learning: Higher Education Requirements Policy Brief

Lynn Norman-Teck
Research & Publications
#Excelined, Higher Education, K12 learning, mastery, Student-Centered Learning
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ExcelinEd – Many new learning models focus on the mastery of key concepts and skills regardless of the time, place and pace in which they are acquired. This approach often leads to the elimination—or at least blurring—of conventional age, grade, course and time-based structures. As a result, report cards and transcripts may not feature traditional…
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