Legislature vows transparency on negotiating education policy. History says otherwise.

Legislature vows transparency on negotiating education policy. History says otherwise.

If years of precedent are any indication, this year's final laws affecting Florida's education policy will now be determined through deal-making and negotiations that will take place largely in private, behind closed doors and out of the public eye. [Source: Times/Herald]

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Should computer coding count as a foreign language credit?

In high school you may have taken Spanish or French to fulfill a foreign language requirement. In an age where we are constantly using new technology to communicate, should we learn how to better communicate with computers and phones? And should those classes count as learning a second language? Some lawmakers want to make that happen. [Source: WTSP]

Attendance numbers show SEC remains king of college football

Georgia and Florida were among six SEC teams that finished among the top 11 in the nation in home attendance. Florida State of the ACC ranked 18th in home attendance. [Source: Florida Times-Union]

Senators want money for online school with low grad rate

The state Senate wants to give $1.5 million to a Utah-based private university so it can recruit more Florida students for its online programs, drawing outrage from state colleges whose leaders questioned why lawmakers would give taxpayer money to an out-of-state school with one of the nation's worst graduation rates. [Source: Naples Daily News]

Lawyers outline venue arguments in Florida third-grade retention case

A group of Florida parents that has taken its challenge of the state's third-grade retention laws to the state Supreme Court must convince the justices on narrow venue issues before they can get to the heart of the matter. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]

ALSO AROUND FLORIDA:

› Duval superintendent selected to head Detroit public schools [First Coast News]
Duval County Schools superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti is expected to leave his post to take the same job in his hometown of Detroit. The Detroit Public Schools Community District's School Board made the decision official at a meeting Tuesday by at 7 - 0 vote.

› Parents may get new way to challenge school textbooks [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]
Floridians who view school textbooks as too liberal and books in school libraries as inappropriate may get legislative help to more easily object to classroom materials they don’t like.

› Keiser University nabs $10M loan for campus acquisitions [South Florida Business Journal]
First Green Bank, an Orlando-based firm with an office in Fort Lauderdale, on Monday announced it awarded a $10 million loan to Fort Lauderdale-based Keiser University for the acquisition of commercial buildings in Orlando and Daytona Beach.

› UCF professor on mission to communicate aphasia to the world [Orlando Sentinel]
Dr. Janet Whiteside is trying something new. Her area of expertise is in speech pathology, but she’s teamed up with a lab at UCF’s Institute for Simulation & Training to create a virtual reality game for one of her young patients.

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