THIS WEEK’S HAPPENINGS Due to the FSBA Day in the Legislature Conference, we did not publish our usual daily reports this week, so this edition of the Daily Update provides a recap of the legislative action on key bills and the budget this week. Our Daily Updates will resume next week. EDUCATION BUDGET UPDATE The…
1. What does a public health emergency due to Zika Virus mean?: https://www.yahoo.com/health/florida-zika-public-health-emergency-140738703.html 2. More rigorous tests help to close “Honesty Gap”: http://achieve.org/files/Proficient%20vs%20Prepared%202.pdf 3. Paper test takers scored higher than online test takers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/02/04/report-kids-who-took-common-core-test-online-scored-lower-than-those-who-used-paper/ 4. US elementary and secondary education revenues and expenditures reported: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2015/2015303.pdf 5. Heard about micro schools?: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/01/27/micro-schools-could-be-new-competition-for.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news1-RM
MIAMI (AP) — Florida’s history of fighting off mosquito-borne outbreaks puts the state in perhaps better position than most when it comes to the Zika virus. In 2014, chikungunya, a virus spread by the same species of mosquito as Zika, infected a million people in the Caribbean. While 452 travel-related cases were documented in Florida…
Signs hang in Santa Rosa County School District classrooms that tell students of their right to refuse to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Those signs will soon wind up in trash cans if the Florida state Legislature approves House Bill 1403 and its Senate companion – S.B. 1600. Read full article