Collier County students in grades three to 11 will take the Florida Comprehensive Test beginning Tuesday. The scores, which will be released later this year, will determine grades for Collier County schools and will be used to determine whether the schools made adequate yearly progress as required by the No Child Left Behind Act. Students are rated on achievement levels, with a Level 3, 4 or 5 indicating that the student has scored at or above grade [...]
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Eighteen students participate in an after-school Quest For Kids college preparatory session. Students come two times per month during the academic year to get support in navigating the college admissions maze, plus summer college visit trips. [...] Meteorologist John Patrick spoke and fielded questions from a group of Tommie Barfield Elementary students as part of a science day that included collecting their own weather [...] The Eagle Forum will host its annual luncheon Friday, March 12, at the Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club, 851 Gulf Shore Blvd. N. [...] Forty students from 20 middle schools will square off tonight in the Lee County Public Schools’ 13th Annual Spelling [...] Manatee began a program called Lead to Succeed. The goal is to create focused, motivated students and parents that understand the work they do and the progress they need to [...] Collier County School District Honor Roll of Feb. 8, [...] With a snip of the scissors, Rose Hall was opened on Friday at a ribbon-cutting [...] These are the Collier education briefs for the week of Feb. [...] The founder of a nonprofit organization that brings recess back into low-income urban schools understands why education reformers focus on what happens in the classroom. That’s fine to Jill Vialet, founder of Playworks, just as long as school principals hear her out about the value of play time in elementary [...] Gulf Coast High School students Haylee Lamb, Radhika Gopalan and Erin Clawson are spokespersons for K is for Kids Foundation’s Teen Advisory Team — the voice and energy behind the Foundation’s mission of promoting children’s literacy and leadership, “Encourage today’s readers. Inspire tomorrow’s leaders.” The students explain here whey they’re a part of this non-profit organization and why they ask others to support their [...] Camps for both Joe Whitehead and Mary Ellen Cash confirmed the candidates received e-mails from Von Jeffers, chairman of TIGER, the Collier County Education Association’s Political Action Committee, indicating that he would like to speak with them about endorsing Terry, who is currently serving the remainder of Richard Calabrese’s term and is running for the District 5 seat. [...] The Obama administration this month began pushing for new legislation that would make what is served in schools healthier. Legislation, which is soon to be introduced, would ban candy and sugary beverages and many schools would be required to offer nutritious [...] Marco Island’s YMCA campus may become the site of the newly conceived public charter high [...] Soon after the Haiti earthquake, officials from both the Lee and Collier county school districts announced they were prepared to take in new students from the disaster- and poverty-ravaged [...] The Collier County School Board this week approved a pilot program that will put standards-based report cards in four elementary schools next year. The report card doesn’t have the traditional grades of A, B, C, D or F (or O, S, N, and U, which are used in the kindergarten through second-grade [...] Myra Janco Daniels, founder, chairman and CEO of the Philharmonic Center for the Arts has been awarded the 2010 Holland T. Salley Leadership in Fostering Education (LIFE) Award. [...] During the school year, First Book-Collier County distributes curriculum-appropriate books to students in all the county’s Title 1 public schools. It is supported primarily through private donations, grants and a fundraiser held every two years; for the past two years, the group also received money from the Naples Children & Education [...] During the school year, First Book-Collier County distributes curriculum-appropriate books to students in all the county’s Title 1 public schools. It is supported primarily through private donations, grants and a fundraiser held every two years; for the past two years, the group also received money from the Naples Children & Education [...] Seven Collier County principals who went to Harvard last summer are going back to school. But after Collier County School Board members pulled the request during their Thursday night meeting to discuss it after approving out of state travel requests for teachers without incident, Superintendent Dennis Thompson said he is worried the trip is pitting administrators against [...] |
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