The only school in the Sarasota County School District to receive a D grade from the Florida Department of Education this year angered school board members Tuesday when it presented its plan for raising the grade. But multiple board members as well as Superintendent Todd Bowden said there was no plan at all. Bowden angrily told the school’s executive director “You should be implementing a plan at this point, not devising a plan.” That executive director, Stephen Evans, claimed the low grade was the result of a ‘perfect storm of circumstances,’ including losing a technology employee, starting a new small-group learning strategy and placing students into accelerated programs with poor results.
