TODAY’S HAPPENINGS In the Senate Session: Bills on 3rd Reading: HB 719 – Education Personnel by Spano – READ 3RD TIME; PASSED THE SENATE; PASSED THE LEGISLATURE Authorizing certain information to be used for educator certification discipline and review; authorizing certain employees or agents of the Department of Education to have access to certain reports and records; authorizing rather…
The top administrator of Florida’s largest school district — and the fourth largest school district in the country — remains opposed to a legislative proposal that would let high school students count computer coding as a foreign language. Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalhosaid again Tuesday that lawmakers should not equate the two, and he said he fears…
HIGHLAND CITY — The Polk County School Board wants to ease into its search for a new superintendent and invite more community input than during the last one. Board members discussed the search at their retreat Monday at the district’s Jim Miles Center. They began sketching out the timeline for a national search process that…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.- A push to let Florida’s public schools use alternative tests is moving ahead in the Florida Senate. A Senate panel voted Tuesday for a bill that would give school districts the option of switching from the Florida Standards Assessment to tests such as the SAT and ACT. The bill (SB 1360) now moves…