Highlands County citrus grower becomes Florida Board of Education chairman

2019 Legislative Session, Accountability, Advocacy, FLDOE, In the News, School Governance

The Florida Board of Education has its first new chairman in four years, with the appointment of Highlands County citrus farmer Andy Tuck.  Tuck, appointed to a second term on the board in early 2018, replaces Marva Johnson of Winter Garden, who held the post since 2015 and was barred from continuing as chair. Read…

Florida continues computer science push, hoping to train more teachers, enroll more high school students

2019 Legislative Session, Accountability, Advocacy, Budget, Curriculum, In the News, Legislation, Personnel

The field of computer science offers plenty of well-paying jobs, but less than 1 percent of the undergraduates enrolled in Florida’s universities earned degrees in that major last year.  State leaders hope a new $10 million investment to train more computer science teachers — the largest in the nation — and new flexibility in course…