A first look at today's most important education news:
- “Next Generation Sunshine State Standards”: Florida’s proposed Common Core rebranding. (Washington Post)
- The Gates Foundation will make five $100,000 grants for collaboration between charter and traditional public schools to five cities: Aldine, Texas; Lawrence, Massachusetts; San Jose, California; Spokane, Washington; and Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Charters & Choice)
- Surprise, surprise: Kentucky has withdrawn from the PARCC testing consortium, bringing PARCC’s membership to nineteen. (Curriculum Matters)
- The Department of Education has begun to preview what their fifty-state strategy on teacher equity, which may include tying NCLB waivers to how well a state does or does not do to ensure equitable distribution of quality teachers. (Politics K–12)
- After being served lunch at their Utah school, approximately forty students looked on as their meals were taken away and tossed out because of outstanding balances on their accounts; parents are furious. (Salt Lake Tribune)
