Florida turns up heat against school district over struggling middle school

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State Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. on Tuesday gave Escambia County officials 48 hours to execute a contract with a charter-school company to operate a struggling middle school, threatening to withhold pay from the district superintendent and school board members.

The State Board of Education held a special meeting that focused on what’s known as a “turnaround plan” for Warrington Middle School. The Escambia district has been in negotiations with the company Charter Schools USA.

The Legislature in 2017 passed a measure that allows charter operators to take over operations when a school’s performance has consistently floundered. Diaz in the memo wrote that he found “probable cause” that the Escambia district is violating state law and State Board of Education rules by “failing to timely execute a contract” with a charter-school company.

The Escambia School Board was scheduled to meet Tuesday night. Smith told the state board that he intended to recommend approval of a contract with Charter Schools USA during the meeting. “I find your negotiations to be either incompetent or completely disingenuous. And I’m just going to call it out as I see it,” state board member Ryan Petty said.

 

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