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Ann Scott starts annual Literacy Week, Florida! tour

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Florida first lady Ann Scott visited Tampaā€™s Strawberry Crest High School Monday asĀ part of a Department of Education initiative to raise awareness for its literacy programs. ā€œStrong reading skills set students up for success in the classroom and beyond, and IĀ am honored to have the opportunity to help our stateā€™s students foster an appreciationĀ for literacy,ā€ Scott said in a news release. ā€œAs a grandmother, I cherish the time I spendĀ reading to my four young grandsons and seeing their eyes light…

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Today on Context Florida: Joe Biden tours Florida, two Marco Rubios and Donald Trump, demagogue

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Today onĀ Context Florida: Vice President Joe Biden visited Florida this week supposedly to do what Bob Sparks says vice presidents do. He came to raise money for Democrats and talk about a college-readiness policy initiative on behalf of President Obama. Free community college is not why the media showed up. With the vice president in town, itā€™s all about the potential contest between the sitting vice president taking on the former secretary of state and the rest of the field.…

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Longtime Florida educational policy staffer Deborah Gallay dies

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One of the Florida Capitolā€™s most respectedĀ insiders, Deborah Gallay, died on Tuesday, July 7. She was 66. Gallayā€™s extensive public service career included positions in the Executive Office of the Governor, the Department of Education and Board of Regents, which later became the Board of Governors, and staff director of Senate Finance & Taxation. Never one for the spotlight, Gallay was well-known forĀ her impact as both a lobbyist and consultant on higher education issues. Her most recent role was as…

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Today on Context Florida: Lenny Curry, Big Sugar, free parking and standardized test fail

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Today onĀ Context Florida: Bob Sparks says Lenny Curryā€™s victory in Jacksonville last night shows Republicans the way to win. The political class is analyzing whether Curryā€™s win gives Republicans any advantage next year in the quest to capture Floridaā€™s 29 electoral votes or to hold a U.S. Senate seat. Since Jacksonville and Duval County usually go Republican (Barack Obama lost this area twice), a Democrat winning twice in non-presidential election years would certainly give the GOP some cause for concern.…

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Florida officials blame another glitch on cyberattack

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Florida education officials are blaming a cyberattack for another round of problems with online testing. A Department of Education official acknowledged on Monday that end-of-course exams given by the state were delayed because of a denial of service attack against the testing vendor. The Tampa Bay TimesĀ reported that the attack disrupted exams given in U.S. history, biology and civics. This is the second time this year that state officials have blamed a cyberattack for glitches in Florida’s administration of online…

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Florence Snyder: Postcard from a cold case

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A half-century after an unsolved murder, who did the crime is less important that what the crime did to those left behind. The October 22, 1966, murders of Robert and Helen Sims and their 12-year-old daughter Joy changed Tallahassee, overnight, from a place where everyone trusted everyone to a place where the unspeakable could happen to anyone. Sims, a pioneering information technology official with the state Department of Education, and his wife and youngest child were slaughtered that night in…

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State investigates cyber-attack on school testing program

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The state’s top law enforcement agency is investigating cyber-attacks that caused several school districts to suspend standardized tests. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of Education announced the investigation Monday, a week after school districts started reporting problems with the tests. Administrators were having problems logging into the testing system and some students were being logged out before completing tests. The Department of Education blamed the problems on software issues and thought the situation was resolved Tuesday,…

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