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Last edited Tue Mar 17, 2020, 07:13 PM - Edit history (1)
All testing already canceled thru the end of the year
Parents will be given an option to allow students to repeat the year
Cases now over 210 in the state of FL
evertonfc
(1,713 posts)2022 just to be safe.
BadgerKid
(4,554 posts)TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The state of Florida is canceling all testing for students in the state's K-12 public schools for the remainder of the school year, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday afternoon.
Parents will have the option to hold their children back for a year if they choose, DeSantis said.
"Requirements for graduation, promotion and final course grades will be evaluated as if those assessments did not exist," DeSantis said.
The governor said all testing will be waived for the rest of the 2019-2020 school year. Schools' evaluation grades will also be canceled, the governor announced.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)still be paid?
Igel
(35,339 posts)In Texas to continue receiving the per-student ADA-based funding schools will be expected to offer some sort of online or distance-learning courses. Otherwise they're not teaching. If the schools do that, the students will be deemed present for ADA purposes and the district will get its per-student/per-day funding.
The district I work for is going ahead with plans for online coursework and teachers have been notified that their payroll will be processed on schedule. It just takes somebody in the office for a couple of days per month to process the routine stuff, and with the district essentially shut all the non-routine stuff won't be happening.
That also includes long-term subs and anybody else who'd have been routinely paid, even if their first day of work was going to be the first day school was suspended.
ADA = average daily attendance; the school takes stock of the current enrollment on select days and class periods through the year, and that determines funding according to a formula; some of the funding is federal pass-through and some of it is contributed by the state.
I do have to add something, on edit: Right now "going ahead with plans for online coursework" is pretty meaningless. They're mostly just trying to come up with what the plans might be. As a teacher, no word on exactly how it's going to be implemented, how testing will occur, assignments collected and graded, etc., etc. And since I know my students, I don't really see that going nearly as well as the administrators do.
Croney
(4,665 posts)repeat the year, if they don't have to? Not many.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)We have friends with seniors this year and a lot of the traditional events and ceremonies wont happen for them. Sucks but its a new reality.
malaise
(269,157 posts)it may be the end of school shootings for this school year
Roland99
(53,342 posts)tblue37
(65,483 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 17, 2020, 07:25 PM - Edit history (1)
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Seniors will be in a bind, but colleges won't be taking them in anyway, so just shift college entrance dates.
spanone
(135,861 posts)onenote
(42,747 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)mcar
(42,372 posts)Schools were closed to students this week and next; staff was told to come in. Today, about 2, they were told to leave immediately and plan to return March 30....or mid-May.
No plans for distance learning (which he thought he was there to put together). No word on if they will be paid or not.