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Diaz says state issuing voucher funds as quickly as it can, New College settles disability complaint, Pinellas changes book review process, and more

Funding vouchers: Florida is working as fast as it can to distribute money to for students who have been approved for a state K-12 scholarship, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. said Thursday. About 85,000 students receiving vouchers for special needs and 120,000 students getting awards for educational options should have received their money by yesterday,... Read more »

Jefferson district bid-rigging investigations, Orange board’s LGBTQ+ proclamation, book bans, scholarships for disabled, and more

Around the state: A federal grand jury that is now investigating allegations of bid-rigging over a $4 million contract to help students in the struggling Jefferson County School District began after a state investigation went nowhere, Orange County School Board members approve a proclamation declaring October as LGBTQ+ Awareness and History Month after board member... Read more »

Get smart fast, vol. 11

Broken habits Chalkbeat goes inside a Chicago classroom to show learning has not returned to normal. [I]nside Nikhil Bhatia’s classroom, the evidence was on the whiteboard, where the math teacher was shading in slices of a pie to illustrate how to find a common denominator. That day, his seventh graders were working to add and… Read more »

Yes, parents can be the deciders and yes, there are safeguards

A recent article in the Tampa Bay Times dissected parents’ uses of Florida’s education choice scholarships, including some unconventional uses of funding, like large-screen TVs. While the article quoted supporters of the program and defenders of parents’ choices, it did not feature the most important perspective: That of parents using the scholarships. One scholarship parent, David… Read more »

State suspends distribution of ideological surveys to colleges, districts rip DOE’s communication, more scholarship details requested, and more

Ideological surveys suspended: The state has temporarily suspended the distribution of state-required ideological surveys to 2 million college students, faculty and staff just a year after they were introduced. The voluntary "intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity" surveys were written into law last year after Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican legislators expressed concern about anti-conservative bias... Read more »

Pain, stress and public education’s return to normal

graph showing amount of time needed to catch up

If I had to choose one word to summarize the problems facing public education since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it would be homeostasis. When living organism face change or stress, they seek to return, as quickly as possible, to their previous baseline. At every stage of the crisis that began in spring of… Read more »

Parents’ rights lawsuit appeal on hold for settlement talks, Osceola cuts automatic library access for students, school budgets, and more

Parents' rights suit on hold: Consideration of an appeal in the lawsuit filed against the state's Parental Rights in Education law that restricts classroom discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity has been suspended while the plaintiffs and the state discuss a possible settlement. Three LGBTQ students, 11 parents and teachers from state school districts... Read more »

9/11 school lessons, Flagler teacher involved in segregated assembly resigns, school book removals, district budgets, and more

Around the state: Monday might have been the first time many Florida students received required lessons about the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States, the Flagler County elementary school teacher involved in the recent segregated assembly for black students only has resigned, Florida Department of Education data show nearly 390 books were removed from... Read more »