Florida roundup: School board races, enrollment, start times and more

08/26/14
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Travis Pillow

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Education reform. Gov. Rick Scott releases a second-term education agenda. Times/Herald. Tampa Tribune. Gainesville SunredefinED. A Tampa Bay Times columnist criticizes the governor over testing.

Campaigns. It's election day. Charter schools are among the issues at stake in Clay County school board races. Florida Times-Union. Common Core looms large at all levels. Naples Daily News. WJCT looks at spending in school board races.

Enrollment. Sarasota classrooms aren't as crowded as officials expected. Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Start times. Advocates for a later start to the school day have their cause bolstered by a new study. Northwest Florida Daily News.

Accountability. This will be a lower-stakes "baseline year" for school accountability. Ocala Star-Banner.

Lawsuits. A Hillsborough teacher files a discrimination lawsuit. Tampa Tribune. A federal judge partially dismisses a retaliation suit stemming from a Manatee sex abuse case. Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Bradenton Herald.

Vals and sals. The Bay school board revisits honorary titles for graduates. Panama City News Herald.

Teachers unions. A public records dispute hangs over collective bargaining in Clay County. Florida Times-Union.

Facilities. Miami-Dade school board members get an update on $1.2 billion in construction bond spending. Miami Herald. Indian River starts construction on a new administration building. Indian River Press-Journal.

School boards. The Marion County school board is in a legal dispute with the City of Ocala over stormwater fees. 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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