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Book challenge process targeted in lawsuit, superintendent contracts, construction projects, and more

Another lawsuit on book objections: Three Florida parents have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a 2023 state law that they say infringes on their First Amendment rights because it doesn't include a process that allows them to object to book removals in schools. Two parents from St. Johns County and one from Orange County contend... Read more »

USF lands virus research center in Tampa, portables in Duval, Lee pay deal narrowly approved, and more

Around the state: USF's medical campus in downtown Tampa will be the new headquarters for a group of more than 80 virology research centers called the Global Virus Network, Duval school board members approve buying eight portable classrooms for two overcrowded schools even as it considers shuttering dozens of other schools, Broward's superintendent ignored a... Read more »

FHSAA allowing paydays for high school athletes, Pinellas removes ‘porn’ book, start times, and more

High school NIL approved: Florida high school athletes can now be paid for the use of the names, images and likenesses, the Florida High School Athletic Association decided Tuesday in a unanimous vote. Athletes and their parents will have to "negotiate any NIL activities independent of their school, school district, or the FHSAA," and the... Read more »

School safety issues, library training changes, NIL impact, spelling champ relaxes, and more

Around the state: Many school district officials worry they won't be able to comply with state safety requirements even after spending millions of dollars, changes have been made to the training school librarians get about policing library and classroom bookshelves, will the impact of Florida's expected approval of compensation for high school athletes this week... Read more »

A Taste of À La Carte Learning: EYE OF A SCIENTIST

Florida has long had a critical shortage of public school science teachers. But growing numbers of students in South Florida’s booming alternative education networks are learning science from a real-life scientist. Dr. Neymi Layne Mignocchi has two master’s degrees in biology and experimental psychology and a Ph.D. in neuroscience. She worked for six years… Read more »

Bella’s life was worthy of a documentary and Columbus High senior Sebastian Broche was ‘the perfect guy’ to direct it

Originally, all Raymond Rodriguez-Torres was expecting was a public service announcement honoring his late daughter. He – and his daughter’s memory – received more. Much more. Rodriguez-Torres hoped the multi-media club at Christopher Columbus High School in Miami, his alma mater, could produce a PSA about Live Like Bella, the nonprofit that battles childhood cancer in honor… Read more »

Hillsborough 7th-grader Bruhat Soma wins national spelling bee, NIL for high-schoolers, and more

Top speller again from Florida: Bruhat Soma, a 12-year-old 7th-grader at Turner/Bartels K-8 in Hillsborough County, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. After 14 rounds, Soma and Faizan Zaki of Dallas were the last two standing and the competition proceeded to a tiebreaker, which Soma won after spelling 29 words correctly in... Read more »

Slavery’s ‘benefits’ remain in final standards, choice ‘tradeoff,’ one state student left in bee, and more

Around the state: Florida's Board of Education approves social studies standards that include a passage about the "benefits" of slavery to the enslaved, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. says public schools closing is the "tradeoff" for school choice, the BOE changes FHSAA bylaws to align with the state's objections to a proposed federal Title IX... Read more »

Number of home-school vouchers could double, Broward considers closing eight schools, and more

Vouchers for home-schoolers: The number of home-schooled students who are applying for vouchers under the state's scholarship programs is on pace to more than double, according to figures provided by Step Up For Students, which helps administer the scholarships and hosts this blog. Last year, the first year of home-schoolers being eligible for vouchers, 19,154... Read more »

This former public school teacher created her own school. Now she’s ‘100 percent free.’

JUPITER, Fla. — When you start your own school, you make the rules. You can even bring your dog. The Andersen Academy serves 16 middle school students, nearly all of whom use state-supported education choice scholarships. Founder Carrie Andersen calls it a “concierge homeschool,” for parents who homeschool but want customized support. She started… Read more »

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