Waiting For Superman Documentary Analysis

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The documentary “waiting for Superman” relates to our local community in the way that just as in the documentary many students and families are suffering and strivivng to get a better education. Like some of the states visited and mentioned within the documentary florida’s graduation rate in 2014 is ranked among the lowest at 75%. This means that 1/3 of our students will either not graduate or dropout. Although in “Waiting for Superman” it is repetedly shown that reform isn’t easy the FEA has come up with some. The FEA Schools Transforming Task Force has set out to transform struggling schools. The FEA is working on how to get system wide improvement for schools and on how o effectively measure this improvement. They intend to do this

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