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2015 Florida Legislature SB 616 is grossly unfair to our children.

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Greetings advocates!  The 2015 Florida Legislature opens March 3rd with committee weeks running through February.

Your objections to how Florida uses high stakes standardized tests to hurt children, blame teachers and discredit public education has made an impact. Legislators are facing the hard truth. The transition plan they passed last year for the new Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) is a disaster in the making. Parents, teachers, school boards and superintendents pleaded last year for a 3 year testing transition. Instead, the Florida Legislature passed a miserly one year pause on school grades only.

The backlash from parents against punitive testing is profound.  Sen. John Legg filed SB 616 this week to start a conversation.  We appreciate Sen. Legg’s effort, his bill still provides zero relief to our children.  They will still be retained, denied diplomas, lose electives and be thrown into remediation based on the unproven FSA. Sen. Legg tweaks some percentages and proposes reducing the impact student scores have on teacher evaluations from 50% to 40%, but the transition period remains one year.
 
Please let Sen. Legg know that SB 616 is grossly unfair to our children.  There’s time to influence the Senators to improve SB 616. Tell Sen. Legg that we do not want our children to be hurt while the state irons out its transition mistakes.  Share this alert.  Our children need you to take action today.  
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