Author: rosacastrofeinberg

• How and why to avoid Florida’s flaws

  4–7 minutes

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  November 3, 2018

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  Accountability

  It’s not too late to improve state ESSA plans. Approved state ESSA plans can be amended at any time. That’s both good news and bad news. I fear the premature approval by the U.S. Department of Education (USED) of Florida’s plan to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) could have a negative impact on plans…

  

• Federal regulations threaten Civil Rights of Latinos

  17–25 minutes

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  October 31, 2016

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  English Language Learners

  Do the U. S. Department of Education (USDOE) recently proposed regulations threaten the civil rights of English Learner (EL) students? The new regulation (34 C.F.R. §299.19 (c) (3)) would eliminate the use of state content assessment results and other evidence of actual classroom performance in English Learner (EL) program exit decisions, violate the rights of…