Collier schools create first chink in Florida’s Race to the Top effort
By Beach Blogger at 17 December, 2009, 8:25 am
Florida education commissioner Eric J. Smith wants to show off the state's united front as he puts in for up to $700 million from the Obama Administration's Race to the Top education reform grant. Increasingly, it looks like he won't be getting what he wants. Teachers groups, such as the United School Employees of Pasco , have begun to announce they won't sign off on the plan. They've argued that their interests aren't at heart with ideas such as evaluations based on student results that dominate the plan. That, perhaps, was to be expected. But how about this one? Collier superintendent Dennis Thompson (shown) has told the Naples Daily News that he won't sign, either . His reason: Too little money would come in exchange for too much ceding of authority to the feds. Plus, Thompson accurately notes, the effort would peeve too many teachers — the very people students need to be active and engaged in the classroom, not angry at the administration. "We're not going to waste our effort and inflame our work force," Thompson told
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Collier schools create first chink in Florida’s Race to the Top effort
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