A longtime children’s advocate is leading a campaign to lower the voting age for school board and superintendent elections from 18 to 16. Jack Levine, founder of the 4Generations Institute and former 25-year president of Voices for Florida’s Children, sees youth voting as an emerging civil rights issue. So he wants to stimulate the movement…
ORLANDO, Fla. – On Thursday Gov. Rick Scott and First Lady Ann Scott announced Jessica Solano, a math teacher at Highlands Grove Elementary School in Polk County, as the 2017 Florida Department of Education and Macy’s Teacher of the Year. Commissioner of Education Pam Stewart and Dennis Witte, Macy’s Executive Vice President Regional Director of…
By Moriah Balingit July 8 Ten additional states are suing the Obama administration to stop a directive that requires schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms aligned with their gender identity under the threat of losing federal funding, bringing the total number of states challenging the guidance to 21. Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson…
FT. WALTON BEACH, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – The Florida Commissioner of Education recognized two hospitals in Okaloosa County for their contributions to the school district’s science, technology, electronics, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) programs. Okaloosa School District Superintendent Mary Beth Jackson presented a plaque to Fort Walton Beach Medical Center and Twin Cities Hospital representatives on behalf…
Annual school grades were just part of the latest data released Friday by the Florida Department of Education Less noticed, but also with their own impact, school districts grades came out, along with the list of lowest performing elementary schools. Those schools have to offer an extra hour of daily reading instruction. More than half…
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Any athlete knows the model works. Coaches take stock of players’ abilities and work to improve them on an ongoing basis. Practice, assess, tweak, improve, practice, assess, tweak, improve. Peak performance isn’t left to chance. Yet few boards conduct a self-assessment of their effectiveness in providing governance and leadership that promote student performance and system…
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Nominations are being taken for the next representatives of Florida in the National Statuary Hall. The collection of one hundred statues — two from each state — is housed in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington D.C. Florida’s current representatives are Dr. John Gorrie, credited with inventing refrigeration and air conditioning, and General Edmund Kirby Smith,…