EarthWatch

Education in Florida...a sample of our national problem...

Jeb Bush, the current 2-term governor of Florida, has called himself the ‘education’ governor and has stated that he has promoted improved education in Florida…but when a close look is made of the success of educational systems in Florida we don't find a clear picture of what he may have done.

It is time to fix our educational process in Florida, not just teach to the FCAT score report. Education needs to be an interactive process where students love to learn and learn to dig into the the material so that they can master the curriculum…not just meet test scores. Florida's students, and our Nation's students all need to seek higher committment and meet new educational goals...and if we fail to lead them to their successful completion we will loose the edge that we need to maintain the United States as the leader in World wide innovation.

The first step in fixing Florida's problem is to get an accurate picture of what is going on in our schools. Over-crouding and language barriers, casued by our high imigration rate, cause many of our problems. These issues also contribute to the early exit taken by an allarming number of our students. We loose more high school students than we graduate...and that creates a population of under educated and under skilled workers for our increasingly high tech working arena.

Florida is a state with some of the lowest starting pay for teachers nationally, and our teachers readily cross boarders to teach in other states when they can. We need tens of thousands of new teachers, and instead we are loosing many more than we can find. It is so difficult to recruit under our current pay-structure that we are reaching out to Puerto Rico to try to fill the roles.

It is time that the State's Secretary of Education take a real look at what is going on and that the State of Florida react by improving our educational system...really imporve it, so that we lead in our national revitalization of Education.

The education Governor…I wish I could see it, maybe his replacement will earn the title.

posted by Moon Shadow @ 8:31 AM