Report Cards

     The U.S. is an overall D+; Florida, a C-, a smidgen better but nothing great.   That's the bad news from the apolitical "Report Card on America's Infrastructure," issued every four years by the objective, well-meaning American Society of Civil...

Readers can get divergent views of Florida's education reform work — and the work of former Gov. Jeb Bush's educational foundation — tomorrow. One group is set to publicly criticize former Bush's  foundation tomorrow afternoon. A little...

Administrators at the California State University system have poked a stick in a hornet's nest by putting out their first-of-its-kind report card indicating how much support state legislators gave priority bills on higher education....

TALLAHASSEE – A new national report card by StudentsFirst, the education advocacy group founded by former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, gives Florida a B- for its education policies. But, that grade also gives the state a ranking of...

Update: Criticism from American Federal of Teachers added to post. Florida ranks second in the nation when it comes to state education laws that promote quality education, according to a new report card by StudentsFirst. The group was founded by...

Florida ranks 7th in the nation and earns a B grade when judged on its charter school laws — by a charter school advocacy group. The Center for Education Reform issued its annual charter school law report card today and ranked the states and...

High school folks eager to see this year's A-to-F grades could get that report card very soon — before schools go on winter break — or they might have to wait until early 2013, said Education Commissioner Pam Stewart. Stewart, speaking at this...

A roundup of state and local news-review and weekly political chat shows. Descriptions provided by the broadcast outlets in most cases: Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review (WTTW-Ch. 11) Host Joel Weisman with Charles Thomas, ABC 7 Chicago; Kate Grossman,....

Report cards for Orange County Public Schools' 180,000-plus students have been delayed six days after a problem was discovered with some of the cards. As the district began to produce the report cards earlier this week, staffers discovered that credit...

No school should fall more than one letter grade on Florida's school report card this year, as a way to transition into the state's new, tougher school grading formula, Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson has recommended. Robinson plans to formally...

Florida's 13-year-old school grading system is about to get an overhaul that will likely make it tougher for public schools to earn good marks on the annual A-to-F school report card. Since it started grading schools in 1999, the state has raised the...

Naperville Unit District 203 high school students have a little extra time before their parents see their long-term progress. The district discovered late last week …...