Florida School Boards Association
Leon County Deputy Jon “Bubba” Etheridge has been walking the halls of Tallahassee schools for more than a decade. His goal, like that of the other 21 School Resource Deputies assigned to cover 45 schools, is to help kids and their families address drug and alcohol problems before they result in life-altering problems. They want…
One young lady was diagnosed with Stage IV pediatric cancer and created a support group for teenage cancer patients. Another took a simple peanut butter and jelly sandwich and turned it into 3,000 to feed the homeless. And a young man whose little brother has autism started a school club that’s raised $70,000 to help…
BUNNELL — As they wait for state lawmakers to approve a budget, local officials cheered a call from the state Board of Education to increase school funding to its highest levels. Flagler County officials and employees attended the state board meeting Wednesday at the Government Services Building in Bunnell. Board members unanimously passed a resolution…
This week brought news of more trouble with Florida’s school testing system. It’s been a familiar refrain this spring: Students across the state sit down to take a computerized test mandated by law, and they can’t log on. Or they can, but then they get logged off. Or something else goes wrong and the tests…