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Public schools must do better at selling themselves

April 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Lake Howell High School is considering allowing some students to take a later schedule, meaning they wouldn’t start classes until 9 or 10 in the morning and end later as well.

And all of the county’s high schools are going to offer computer labs that are open later so students can take virtual classes after normal school hours, which may free them up to start the day later as well.

Griffin also wants to expand the county’s pre-K offerings. That’s a critical piece. If more parents and students have a good experience in pre-K, they will be more likely to stay at the school.

All of it will take money, and the district has struggled financially in recent years, even closing one elementary school last year.

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Budget and School Choice Lead Florida Education Agenda

January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Advocates also want to expand access to online or virtual classes. Currently, in order to take Florida Virtual School courses an elementary school student must do so full-time. Levesque and the Foundation for Florida’s Future want elementary school students to be able to pick and choose their online courses.

Home school students could also choose virtual classes a la carte if the bill is approved.

Another bill would aid students who want to graduate high school in less than four years without reducing funding at their high school. Schools would receive four years’ worth of funding for each student, even if those students took additional classes to graduate early.

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Graduation rate improves in Marion

December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

More Marion County high school students are graduating in four years than ever before thanks to credit recovery efforts, virtual classes, after-school programs and summer programs, according to local administrators.

Marion’s graduation rate in 2010-11 was 86.3 percent — 6.2 percentage points higher than the state average of 80.1. The graduation rate is the percentage of high school students who get their mainstream diploma in four years.

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Meetings collect ideas to trim millions from Pinellas schools’ budget

March 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Some Pinellas County parents told district officials Monday they are ready to pony up their own money to help combat an anticipated school funding shortfall of up to $86 million next year.

Keeping old textbooks and streamlining bus procedures were among other cost-cutting suggestions of dozens of parents and teachers who attended “budget community input” meetings at six schools Monday night.

Move middle- and high-school students to a four-day week and incorporate virtual classes into their schedules in an effort to cut down on costs for air conditioning and heating, lunch and bus fuel.

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Class Size Penalties Loom as Schools Open

August 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

“And I will tell you there are some districts that did not use the funding that came for the right purposes,” Elia said. “And if they can’t meet it now, I think it’s reasonable to have a penalty.”

In fact in a press release, Elia made it clear she expects to “reap” up to $35 million in rewards for meeting class size requirements.

Elia acknowledged that some families may be inconvenienced if students have to be bused to a less crowded school. But she added that the district is looking at options like letting high school students take virtual or online classes and the district is trying co-teaching in some locations.

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Thousands Of Local Students Taking Virtual Classes

August 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

So far this year, the agency has hired another 250 online teachers and opened 25 additional learning labs on middle and high school campuses statewide to help districts comply with the class size amendment requirements.

“They may still be cutting electives or AP courses due to lack of resources, then we’re really plugging and filling the gap academically,” said Julie Young, Florida Virtual School.

“I love technology and I wanted to be able to incorporate more of the technology with my teaching,” said Regina Calhoun, Florida Virtual School teacher.

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