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Negative treatment by the Seminole County School Board lead parents to analyze school FCAT data and uncover surprising issues: The more years students spend being educated the farther behind they fall, and depressingly slow improvement at middle school and high school levels.

Parents then asked if this is a local issue or larger. Unexpectedly, the same education performance issues were discovered throughout Florida. This was turned into this Education Dashboard. The pattern of data lead to recommendations for a clearer way to report educational scores than the current school scoring system.

In Seminole County parents are starting to believe that their school board does not know how to improve the quality of education at middle school and high school levels. To raise individual school scores Seminole's school board appears to be using the "FCAT Shuffle," busing students to distant schools to manipulate test populations and hide what would be a large educational failure. If true, the Seminole school board is concealing average and needy students' educational declines, damaging their entire lives while the Seminole school board claims victory and moves on.

Is this hypothesis true? This site recommends a clearer way to report education data so these data are surfaced instead of disguised, and millions of Florida's children receive educational progress from more years spent in school, instead of an aparent decline.

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The Florida Education Dashboard is a small side activity -- we have active family lives and jobs. Our goal is a good quality of life for our children and neighbors, while contributing to others. Our hope is a positive change in Seminole schools, and perhaps beyond them.

First: Please see if you can answer your question without contacting us.

Second: If that is not sufficient, please send communications to restoretrust@seminolecountyeducation.com.

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