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The Orange County Convention Center test site hit a new record Sunday when it conducted more than 1,700 coronavirus tests.
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As more businesses open up, health officials and civic leaders are watching the data closely to see what impact the reopening may have on coronavirus cases. Orlando city commissioner Bakari Burns, and WMFE health reporter Abe Aboraya join Intersection to discuss the risks of reopening and how testing is being done.
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Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer says testing is key to reopening safely with phase one of the statewide plan in effect. Dyer and city commissioner Regina Hill visited a mobile testing site at the Northwest Community Center in West Orlando Tuesday.
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Aquí tiene una lista de los sitios donde hacen las pruebas de Coronavirus en la Florida Central mientras empieza la primera fase de las aperturas.
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Hospitals are preparing to resume elective surgeries Monday with restrictions lifted under phase one of a reopening plan.
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But the state’s biggest teacher’s union is raising concerns about the effectiveness of this tool.
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Central Florida students will soon be sharpening their pencils to take high stakes tests. Students aren’t the only ones affected by their outcomes.A new Orange County report shows little evidence Florida’s teacher merit-pay law is raising student achievement. The state legislature adopted the law in 2011. It ties teacher pay and promotions to how students perform on standardized tests. Brevard Superintendent Desmond Blackburn weighs in.
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Education is often a key campaign issue in Florida, but this year there's a new wrinkle, the so-called testing opt-out movement. Each spring, 3rd graders in the state's public schools must take a standardized reading test. Students who fail can be held back. But a group of parents is challenging the state's retention policy in court, and they want lawmakers to back them up.
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Opt out. That’s what a group of parents in Orlando have chosen to have their kids do rather than take the Florida State Assessments test. This year, the state replaced the controversial FCAT standardized exams that had been used to determine how well kids were doing in school with the even more controversial FSA. The tests, which were imported from Utah where they were rife with problems, were rolled out this year, and parents and education advocates say that teachers and students weren’t given enough time to prepare for them. To make matters worse, the stakes for failure on the tests is high – students can be held back a grade for failing to pass them, something many parents say is just not right.
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Orange County Public Schools is easing the impact of more tests this school year. Superintendent Barbara Jenkins announced Tuesday new final exams for middle and high school students won’t count if they would harm a student’s final grade.