Throughout the campaign, Obama played his commitment to education, making extensive use of the reforms introduced in Florida in the middle of the U.S. has increased anxiety in the world
empty shelves stacked in the corridors of the Nap Ford Community School is a reminder of what the teaching of high risk business in Florida has become surplus furniture is all that remains of a school nearby that closed this summer after being described as "F" for two consecutive years.
Jennifer Porter-Smith, director of Nap Ford, need little reminder. His own school was downgraded to an F two years ago.
"It was devastating," he said. "We stopped the team and declared a state means that we do not children - What are we do about it "
For more than a decade, Florida schools were classified from A to F based on the performance and progress of students in reading, writing, math and science exams. Schools Class A or better are rewarded with extra money while schools receiving the lowest score twice in a row closing the face.
is part of a package of reforms put in place by former Governor Jeb Bush, who has become a model for other countries and found an echo in the educational policies of Barack Obama.
The disqualification had a galvanizing effect on school Porter-Smith.
"We became very strategic and very focused," he said. "How can we compare what happens in the classroom with student performance
"We could have valuable lessons plans, but students are to understand what's going on?"
In one year, grade went from an F to an A. The school staff also worked hard two years, says the director, but more focused on preparing for the test in the year they received the top grade.
Since leaving office, Bush has become an advocate for education reform. Creating a non-profit foundation Proft and travel the country to advise Republican politicians
In his speech to the Republican convention, the former governor stressed the progress made by black and Hispanic children in Florida who are now more likely to graduate from high school than their counterparts in other states.
The racial dimension of education reform is important, its supporters often call the "civil rights issue of our generation." An appeal to conservative politicians who need minority voters is clear.
and schools ranking Bush administration includes measures requiring students to pass third reading tests before moving on to the fourth year, the creation of a system of merit pay for teachers and extending parental choice, encouraging the creation of charter schools managed independently.
At school level, the impact of reforms was inevitably messy. Classification of a school has become crucial. Nap Ford is a small primary school - teaching pre-kindergarten to fifth grade -. In a challenging environment, where 98% of students in urban areas are free meals or reduced price, an indicator of poverty
"Because we are a small school, a child may have five or six percentage points," said Porter-Smith. There are 153 children in school, but only two degrees above tests.
There is a high turnover of teachers. In a class of a new teacher left after the first day. This particular class had six teachers in three months.
The director said: ".. Much of the urban community disproportionately learned new teachers, they have a challenge to deal with children in the classroom have many years"
be demoted to the school raises questions about what I was doing. But it has also made life more difficult than drying philanthropic funding.
The director said. "When you have a year in a school receives an F, fundraising becomes more difficult, everyone wants to save someone who is doing well"
turn, it was impossible to pay for a longer school day, which was one of the measures that the school had made to support their students.
A study analyzing the impact of the classification of the school in Florida found to have a negative effect on the number of teachers. Research by economists Li Feng, David Figlio, and Tim Sass said: "The schools that were" shocked "down - and therefore increased pressure to improve lost - more and more teachers quality "
Floridamodel is emulated by states across the country, inspiring new law in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Indiana.
management statutes can not be outsourced, allowing private companies to benefit from the operation of the school of education. One such company, Academica, runs nearly 100 schools in the state.
Michael Kooi, director of school choice in Florida suggests that the letters made a difference, to encourage change in the public system.
"Before the charter school [] had a captive audience and no competition now, let's be realistic," said Kooi.
"To keep children improved on the one hand, but also offers more options for kids too.
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