Our Sudden Emergency

This latest crisis lays bare our district’s lack of preparedness.
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This latest crisis lays bare our district’s lack of preparedness.
Read moreThe incredible paperwork load associated with teaching ESE does far more harm than good.
Read moreSentenced to Strangulation Until Dead Over the past four decades,”Exceptional Student Education” (ESE) has been steadily strangled by increasingly ridiculous and unreasonable rules, regulations, accountability schemes, and documentation requirements. If major streamlining efforts aren’t implemented in the short term, and more realistic solutions enacted for the long term, then educating exceptional students will have been made all but impossible by
Read moreUSEP members choose to go with new leadership.
Read moreThe Florida Legislature is intentionally destroying Florida’s public schools.
Read moreFlorida House Speaker Richard Corcoran hallucinates and rants.
Read morePasco County Schools superintendent Kurt Browning pulls another stunt.
Read moreHere we go again.
Read moreA MYOPICALLY DAFT POLICY Surprise: Browning & Company and USEP are once again at a standoff. Annual Contract renewal policy and its ramifications for teachers who suddenly find themselves unemployed are the items at issue. Back in 2011, the unrelentingly antagonistic Florida Legislature passed a crucial component of its far-right quest to corporatize public education in the state: the codified
Read moreStraight outta Slick Ricky’s Toolbox came Ol’ Tom Grady!
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