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The University of Miami in Coral Gables. The Florida education system consists of public and private schools in Florida, including the State University System of Florida (SUSF), the Florida College System (FCS), the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida (ICUF) and other private institutions, and also secondary and primary schools as well as virtual schools.
The Florida Education Association (FEA) is a statewide federation of teacher and education workers' labor unions in the US state of Florida. Its 145,000 members make it the largest union in the state. It is a merged affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), and is a member of the AFL–CIO.
The school board discriminated against black teachers, and after the Florida State Teachers Association helped organize a lawsuit challenging the unequal pay schedule, the board responded by dropping racial categories for a rating system that scored black teachers lower than their white counterparts.
In 2007, the Florida Department of Education announced that Brevard's graduation rate was the highest in the state at 92.1%. However, there is a major discrepancy between the way the state measures student graduation (tracks each student) and the way the federal government does (quantity entering, quantity graduating).
The State of Florida requires students to take the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) each year in grades 3-10. Students' results from the FAST are compiled to generate a grade for each public school under former governor Jeb Bush's "A+ Plan." Under this plan, public schools receive a letter grade from A to F, depending on student ...
A new crackdown on books in Florida schools has had a chilling effect in classrooms. Voices: I’m a teacher in Florida. Here’s what the DeSantis book bans look like in my classroom
UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida and is the second-largest university in the United States. UCF consists of a 59,770 member student body and employs more than 10,000 people, including over 1,900 teaching faculty and adjuncts. [ 1 ]
Ruth H. Alexander, former chair to the Physical Education Department at the University of Florida [1] Orland K. Armstrong, founded the University of Florida School of Journalism and former member of the United States House of Representatives [2] Sharon Wright Austin, director of the African-American Studies Program at the University of Florida [3]