Florida School Boards Association
This Video Update features FSBA Executive Director Andrea Messina recapping the events during our 29th Annual Day in the Legislature Conference. She highlights the long list of legislators who brought greetings and offered comments during our Legislative Leadership breakfast as well as those whom school board members visited in their offices during the conference. (Please…
A proposed new rule aimed at expanding access to gifted education in Florida has gifted advocates worried that funding for the program is in jeopardy. Much of the rule, titled Special Instructional Programs for Students who are Gifted, focuses on how to get more children identified and placed into advanced instruction. Within the proposal, though, gifted…
TALLAHASSEE — Republican leaders of the Florida Senate want to drastically change how they dole out funding for after-school programs that provide homework help, mentoring and gang prevention services to thousands of children, often living in Florida’s most impoverished and vulnerable neighborhoods. Senators want to increase funding, provide it to more organizations and ensure the…