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Friday, December 16, 2011

The future of education in Jacksonville

Let’s look into our crystal ball and see how things are a year from now.

Our three intervene high schools; Ribault, Raines and Jackson have officially been taken over by the state, none of this one more last chance stuff. Ed White, Forrest and Peterson will be one step closer to being taken over.

Ed Pratt Dannals has left the district to take a job as a principal at a KIPP school. It’s is a six figure pay cut but he is still making over six
figures.

Duval's graduation rate drops about ten percent and our drop our rate rise five percent when the new federal guidelines kick in.

Our FCAT scores have dropped, no longer can our schools count on the free points from the writing portion of the test or from kids just taking AP classes.

The new superintendent says it will take a decade to overcome the damage done by the previous administration.

The reading scores for our students in high school will have gone up noticeable but inversely the reading scores for kids in elementary school will drop precipitously. The middle school scores will remain basically the same.

Ed deformers will continue to ignore poverty and blame teachers unions.

There will be more democrats and fewer republicans in the Florida legislature as the public becomes more aware of the policies that disadvantage public schools while they simultaneously line their own pockets with money.

The Times Union’s editors will continue to praise Pratt-Dannals as if he had photographs of them with a live boy or a dead girl.

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