During the summer and away from the classroom, students tend to take a break from books and retreat into a more relaxed approach to life. While summer is a time for students to recharge and refuel in preparation for the upcoming school year, the break they take from reading can be detrimental. Unfortunately, the gap [...]
Archives for February, 2010
Your Mission: Create a Summer to Remember
Categorized in Florida Children, Leadership Corps, One Million Steps, Service Learning Florida, Worst to First
Breaking Down Education Spending in Florida
Article IX of the Florida State Constitution reads:
The education of children is a fundamental value of the people of the State of Florida. It is, therefore, a paramount duty of the state to make adequate provision for the education of all children residing within its borders. Adequate provision shall be made by law for a [...]
How do you respond to an F on your report card?
Did you know there are schools all around the country that focus on the strengths of their students first in their approach to education?
How would things change if we as a state began to focus on the strengths of our children?
Categorized in Florida Children, Worst to First
Bud Chiles appears on Facing Florida
“There’s a lot of what my father used to call heifer dust that’s spread around,” Bud said in reference to the questionable ranking.
(In case you wondered, heifer dust is a family-friendly term for something you find in cow pastures.)
Among our issues, Education Week doesn’t account for last year’s budget cuts and a decade-long trend of [...]
One of the greatest threats to Florida’s children
Healthy Child Healthy World exists because more than 125 million Americans, especially children, now face an historically unprecedented rise in chronic disease and illness such as cancer, autism, asthma, birth defects, ADD / ADHD, and learning and developmental disabilities. Credible scientific evidence increasingly points to environmental hazards and household chemicals as causing and contributing to [...]
Categorized in Florida Children, Worst to First
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Florida ranks 49th - Number of uninsured children
Florida ranks 49th. About 19 percent, or 763,000 of our children, do not have health insurance, versus a national average of 11 percent. Source: The Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count Data Center
Worst To First Updates- Legislators Vote- Yeah on Guns. Nay on Kids.
- More from Miami
- Purrr-fect Miami Day
- Bud Asks a Question- Is Local Control the Solution?
- Bud Tells a Story
- Visit to Chiles Academy Makes News
- Florida's 4-year-olds could get shortchanged by budget cuts
- Our goal: World leader in education by 2020
- Improve education by investing in innovation, says Microsoft founder
- Editorial: Education Week is grading Florida on the curve
Florida ranks 48th - Juvenile violent crime
Florida ranks 48th in the nation in juvenile incarceration rates, with a custody rate of 451.8 per 100,000 children ages 10 and up. Source: Every Child Matters Education Fund, “Geography Matters: Child Well Being in the States,” 2008
Recent Site Wide Posts
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Gator Gymnastics Book Drive Update!
Gator fans really showed what it means to LIVE UNITED by donating over 1,000 books to our Gator Gymnastics book drive event. 532 of these books will be used for United Way Success By 6 programs.
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Florida ranks 42nd - Spending on corrections vs. education
Florida ranks 50th in per capita spending on education, but ranks 16th in the nation in spending on corrections. Source: NEA Rankings of the States 2008
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- RT @worsttofirst Legislators Vote- Yeah on Guns. Nay on Kids. http://ow.ly/16LQtr
- Florida College Students Push For Education Reform http://ow.ly/1gORH
- Attending Now>Raising Their Voices: Engaging Students, Teachers, and Parents to Help End the High School Dropout Epidemic http://ow.ly/1gJns
- In ages 0-5, kids learn via ART & visible learning yet many #Florida EDU systems cutting Arts #Education #Fail Plz Support @worsttofirst
- Firing teachers: First step to reform or useless effort? -USATODAY http://su.pr/58DKMR Plz RT
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- RT @unitedwaynefl: United Way of NE Florida's Full Service Schools has helped more than 16,000 students & families http://bit.ly/cq5KUF