Florida roundup: Digital learning, campaigns, special needs and more

06/24/14
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Travis Pillow

Digital learning. Two previously defunct Pinellas schools are set to reopen as magnets focused on digital instruction. Tampa Bay Times. Tampa Tribune.

florida-roundup-logoCampaigns. Collier County school board candidates express "general support for school choice" during a public forum that touches on charters and vouchers. Naples Daily News. An Okaloosa County School Board candidate campaigns on reversing a slide in school grades. Northwest Florida Daily News.

Special needs. Florida's school choice legislation could spark efforts in other states to offer customized learning options to special needs students. Watchdog.org. A special needs advocate raises questions about the legislation. Gradebook. A new school aimed at exceptional students with start as a private school with hopes of becoming a charter. Winter Haven News Chief.

School climate. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports on parent and teacher surveys.

Teachers unions. One candidate files suit in a protracted union leadership election. Palm Beach Post.

Finance. Vanished emails hamper an investigation into misspent bond money. Bradenton Herald. Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Superintendents. Alachua County's new schools chief signs his contract. Gainesville Sun.

Nutrition. Participation grows at a Marion summer meal program. Ocala Star-Banner.

About Travis Pillow

Travis Pillow is senior director of thought leadership and growth at Step Up For Students. He lives in Sanford, Florida, with his wife and two children. A former Tallahassee statehouse reporter, he most recently worked at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a research organization at Arizona State University, where he studied community-led learning innovation and school systems' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. He can be reached at tpillow (at) sufs.org.
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