Florida roundup: School choice, teachers unions, back-to-school and more

07/30/15
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Travis Pillow

florida-roundup-logoCharter schools. Donors help provide a kitchen to a small charter school. Daytona Beach News-Journal. A principal disciplined for plagiarism moves to Palm Beach's office of charter school supervision. Sun-Sentinel. Lee County tightens its oversight of charter school transportation. Naples Daily News.

School choice. The Miami-Dade school district expands its magnet programs. WPLG. WTVJ.

Teachers unions. Top Orange County union officials are accused of misconduct, and relieved of duties by the national American Federation of Teachers organization. Orlando SentinelWESH.

Back-to-school. There's a longer sales tax holiday this year. Tampa Bay Times. Thrift stores offer affordable back-to-school clothes. Tampa Bay Times. Cops and barbers help children prepare for the start of classes. Lakeland Ledger.

Budgets. Miami-Dade approves its budget. Miami Herald. Tax rates are going down in Indian River County, and up in St. Lucie. Indian River Press Journal. St. Lucie News Tribune. Marion adopts its spending plan. Ocala Star-Banner.

STEM. Alachua teachers are big on robotics. Gainesville Sun.

Discipline. Miami-Dade overhauls its discipline policy. StateImpact.

School names. Students call on the Hillsborough school board to rename Robert E. Lee Elementary. Tampa Tribune.

School boards. Is it legal to release a school board member's bank records? Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Lee school board members raise questions about the superintendent's contract. Fort Myers News-Press.

Teacher conduct. A Duval teacher faces molestation charges. Florida Times-Union. The Seminole County School Board suspends a coach accused of inappropriate contact with a student. Orlando Sentinel.

Security. Hernando approves a contract with school resource deputies. Tampa Bay Times.

Registration. Collier urges students to register for school. Naples Daily News.

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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