13th Grade: Adding Up The Cost Of Remedial College Courses
Mc Nelly Torres and Lynn Waddell: From 2004 to 2011, Florida’s remedial education costs for both students and schools ballooned from $118 million to $168 million.
13th Grade: How Florida Schools Are Failing To Prepare Graduates For College
Florida’s K-12 public education system has graduated hundreds of thousands of students in the past decade who couldn’t read, write or solve math problems well enough to take some college-level courses.
Teachers Push Back Against New Merit Pay System
Ashley Lopez: Teachers and union leaders in Florida are fighting a new evaluation system that is the major component of an impending merit pay law.
Rep. Corrine Brown Calls for Federal Investigation of K12
Trevor Aaroson and John O'Connor: Citing a story by FCIR and StateImpact Florida, Brown sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan asking for the federal inquiry.
Florida Districts Fight K12’s Plan for Virtual Charter Schools
John O'Connor and Trevor Aaronson: In online education, more flexibility or less oversight?
K12 Stories Have Impact Nationwide
Responses to the FCIR-StateImpact Florida investigation of K12 have come from around the state and across the country.