Oct. 7, 2017 Tavares, FL
Just published by Sarah Panko from Orlando Channel 13 HERE.
And also covered by WFTV Channel 9 Orlando HERE.
Officials with Marion County Public Schools have chosen committees that will review and approve instructional materials for next school year.·
Marion County will choose its own school textbooks
·Official: We're 1st district in Florida to go through breakaway process
· People can see materials under consideration at district teachers' library
"We are the first district in the state to go through the process to choose our own instructional materials, independent of what the state had already adopted," Superintendent Dr. Heidi Maier said Friday.
Maier said that after choosing instructional materials from the state list, third-grade reading scores have been at the bottom of the state. In Lake County, several community members met with Lake County Schools Supt. Kornegay last week and curriculum staff to discuss similar issues.The issue was to start analyzing and modifying curriculum and textbook choices to reverse growing Common Core (my opinion) caused losses of students to charter schools and home schooling.
Vance Jochim
Lake County, FL Fiscal Watchdog
FiscalRangers.com
