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The COVID effect, legislative committees meeting, quarantine relaxed, enrollment down and more

COVID impact on schools: The coronavirus is leaving a mark on the 2021-2022 school year. According to a database maintained by the Florida Education Association teachers union, at least 15 children and 74 teachers and other school employees have died of complications from the coronavirus. At least 31 classrooms and schools have been shut down temporarily... Read more »

DeSantis wants to end FSA testing in favor of ‘progress monitoring,’ face mask policies and more

DeSantis wants to end FSA: Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing to end the annual spring Florida Standards Assessments tests and replace them with a system to monitor students' progress periodically throughout the school year. He said the new system would replace 75 percent of the tests students take now with individualized, check-in assessments three times... Read more »

A random group of Americans is an exceptional group of people

Twenty years ago, terrorists chose a random group of Americans, on a routine flight, to be collateral damage in a spectacular act of terror. The 33 passengers and seven crew members of Flight 93 could have been any group of citizens selected by fate. In that sense, they stood in for us all. The terrorists… Read more »

Court reinstates ban on face mask mandates, child COVID deaths up, officer dies, and more

Mask mandate ban back on: The state's on-again, off-again ban against face mask mandates imposed by school boards is on again. Friday, an appeals court again overruled a Leon County judge who had vacated the stay it had issued that said the state had the authority to prohibit districts from imposing bans without allowing parents... Read more »

State appeals latest ruling on masks, Palm Beach charter schools win share of tax funds, and more

Masks and the courts: Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis filed an emergency motion with an appeals court late Wednesday asking that it reinstate a stay forbidding school districts from imposing a face mask mandate for students without allowing parents to opt-out. Parents who brought the suit challenging DeSantis' executive order will also have the chance... Read more »

Becoming ‘Dr. K’: Creativity and passion for teaching sends educator to the principal’s office

In 2019, when she was teaching at Butler College Prep, a public four-year charter high school in Chicago, Kendrah Underwood earned the reputation as the world’s coolest teacher for filming a video of her students rapping about what they were willing to do to earn a good grade. The video, which attracted 5 million views… Read more »

Leon judge lifts stay on state mask mandates, student and teacher die of COVID, and more

Judge vacates mask order stay: Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper has blocked the state's ban on requiring students to wear face masks without giving parents the option to opt-out. Cooper issued his written ruling against the state Sept. 2, and it was quickly appealed by attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis, which triggered an automatic... Read more »

Broward’s and Palm Beach’s ‘COVID slide,’ mask rule challenge, classical school revival and more

Around the state: Broward and Palm Beach school districts report a stunning "COVID slide" in test scores, Miami-Dade school officials file a petition to overturn the Florida Department of Health rule blocking districts from requiring students to wear face masks without giving parents the option to opt-out, Duval's school board sets standards on coronavirus positivity... Read more »

Could learning pods evolve into a sustainable solution for K-12 education?

Editor’s note: This analysis from Alice Opalka, a research analyst with the Center on Reinventing Public Education, appeared today on The 74. It originally published on CRPE’s education blog, The Lens. Over the past school year, the Center on Reinventing Public Education has tracked how pandemic learning pods evolved from emergency responses to, in some cases, small,… Read more »

New school year brings expanded education options for students, families

Editor’s note: This commentary from John Schoof, a research associate at the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, appeared Thursday on The Daily Signal. Over a million additional students will be eligible to use private school choice options this school year, thanks to the legislative boom across the country in 2021. Accelerated by the COVID-19… Read more »

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