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Quarantine periods changing, ex-board member hired by Volusia district, educators honored and more

Around the state: The Miami-Dade County School District is sticking with the 14-day coronavirus quarantine period for now, while schools in Lake, Brevard and Okaloosa counties have reduced isolation times, Duval school board members agree to consider selling the district's main office building, a tentative contract agreement is reached between teachers and the Duval school... Read more »

Federal aid going unspent, civics bill resurfaces, failed courses, quarantine period and more

Unspent federal aid: In August, the state received $700 million in federal coronavirus relief aid through the CARES Act approved by the U.S. Congress to help schools educate students during the pandemic. As of last week, about $500 million of it has not been spent, according to Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran. A majority of districts... Read more »

Duval’s Greene named superintendent of year, more students switch from online to in-person, and more

Around the state: Florida's superintendent of the year is Duval County's Diana Greene, about 4,000 Lake students and 3,000 in Clay County have decided to switch from remote learning to in-person instruction, a report supports Hillsborough County Superintendent Addison Davis' proposed spending cuts, five finalists are named for the Leon County teacher of the year... Read more »

School board term limits, number of failed courses increases, limits on spectators, lawsuits and more

Around the state: A bill has been filed in the Legislature that would put a constitutional amendment before voters to limit school board members to eight years in office, Citrus County school officials said the number of district students failing courses is up significantly this year over last year because of the pandemic, the Clay... Read more »

State extends order allowing online learning, math learning lags, guardian training funding and more

Order extends remote learning: Students will be able to continue remote learning in the second semester if they choose, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday after the Florida Department of Education issued a new emergency order. Schools will have to continue offering in-person instruction. "The message is schools are open," DeSantis said. "We are not going... Read more »

NAEP testing postponed a year, graduation gap narrowing, tuition hikes considered and more

Nation's Report Card canceled: National reading and math tests for 4th- and 8th-graders that are used to compiled the "Nation's Report Card" have been canceled for 2021. The National Center for Education Statistics said it had concerns that because of the coronavirus pandemic, the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests wouldn't produce a reliable, comparable... Read more »

Manhattan Institute releases report on Florida Hope Scholarship Program

Manhattan Institute senior fellow Max Eden recently authored a report on the legislative origins and history of the first education choice program for students who have experienced bullying in public schools. In the report, Eden wrote: “Education reformers have long lamented America’s persistent racial and socioeconomic achievement gap and framed school choice as a means… Read more »

Grade failures soaring, COVID cases rising but not spreading in schools, class sizes increased and more

Around the state: The number of failing grades rose significantly during the first grading period in the Collier County School District, south Florida schools are seeing a rise in coronavirus cases but officials said there's no evidence students are spreading the virus on campuses, and Okeechobee teachers are angry after the school board raised the... Read more »

Coronavirus surge in schools, attendance at events banned, plan to change mascots delayed and more

Coronavirus in schools: The number of coronavirus cases in K-12 schools and colleges and universities has increased 78 percent in the past three weeks, according to Florida Department of Health statistics. In the report Oct. 24, the state had 12,326 cases. By Nov. 14, that number was 21,996. Despite the surge, which is especially pronounced... Read more »

Pasco sheriff using student data to identify possible criminals, a partisan nonpartisan election and more

Sheriff using student data: The Pasco County Sheriff's Office has been secretly using select data from the school district and the state Department of Children and Families to compile a list of students it believes could "fall into a life of crime." Sheriff Chris Nocco's office culls school records for students who get poor grades,... Read more »

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