The Florida Department of Education released reams of data Monday on how well teachers did in increasing student learning—but both the agency and the state’s largest teachers union cautioned parents against reading too much into the numbers.
The dizzying array of spreadsheets made public under court order included results for schools, districts and individual teachers. As a result, some of the documents were dauntingly lengthy—in one case, a spreadsheet including results for the state’s math teachers contains 133,580 rows of results.
