Author Archives: Rosanne Wood, Leon County School Board Member

Retired Florida Principal on the Barricades Against Phony Florida “Reforms”.

Children are stressed out and parents are m ad enough to want their children to “Opt-Out” of all high-stakes testing. Frustrated teachers are leaving the profession and superintendents are demanding real change.  Lawmakers: how about some real relief? Florida schools are about to hit the big testing/school grades accountability iceberg this spring. Why?  This year,Continue reading “High-Stakes Testing Overload about to Sink our Public Schools!”

Rodderick Moorer was a magnificent human being and a transformational teacher. He loved his students and challenged them to think, question and learn about American History, Government and Economics. As parent Sue Wiley said, “He was respectful of his students, had high expectations of them and was willing to wait for them to kick intoContinue reading “Remembering A Magnificent Teacher and Human Being-Brother Rodderick Moorer”

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COLUMNISTS Rosanne Wood: A brief stand against testing My View Rosanne Wood When the Lee County School Board voted last week to ban state-required high-stakes testing in its schools, shockwaves were felt in every corner of the state. The earth especially shook at the Foundation for Excellence in Education, Jeb Bush’s mouthpiece and lobbying groupContinue reading

Accountability–YES! School Grades–NO! At  Governor Scott’s  recent  School Grading Summit,  there was much discussion about extending safety nets to schools which would otherwise drop two letter grades caused by the significant changes to the grading rules. They might as well have debated whether or not to throw safety nets off the Titanic. The Florida A-FContinue reading “Accountability–YES! School Grades–NO!”