Vouchers. Florida's McKay Scholarship program, which provides vouchers to special needs students, is on the verge of saving taxpayers $1 billion over its lifetime. redefinED. EdFly. Education Week.
Lawsuits. Parents with children on Florida's tax credit scholarship program call for groups challenging the program to drop their lawsuit. Sunshine State News. A prominent South Florida minister opposes the suit in a Sun-Sentinel guest column.
Single Gender. StateImpact Florida talks to the ACLU about its challenge of Florida single-gender programs.
Military families. The Hillsborough school district approves an expansion of an existing school in the wake of a scuttled charter application. Tampa Tribune. Gradebook.
Growth. Pasco schools join 10 other Florida districts among the 50 largest in the country. Gradebook.
Budgets. The Miami-Dade school district receives the largest share of local property tax bills. Miami Herald. The spending plan requested by the state Board of Education would boost funding in line with Gov. Rick Scott's campaign promises. Associated Press.
School boards. A Lake County board meeting is abruptly cancelled. Orlando Sentinel.
Educator conduct. Two Palm Beach teachers face discipline for making threats. Palm Beach Post. An administrative law judge upholds an administrator's firing in a sexual abuse case. Bradenton Herald. Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Student conduct. A student is arrested for stealing a teacher's car. Pensacola News-Journal.
STEM. Students at a South Florida middle school study sharks. Sun-Sentinel.
Security. Miami-Dade students are urged to "say something" if they see potential campus threats. Miami Herald.
