FSBA #FridayFive – Week of July 11, 2016

FSBA #FridayFive – 5 Things You Should Know Each week, Executive Director, Andrea Messina, compiles a top 5 list of news stories that School Board Members should know about: Website Development School To Open In Wyoming More states sue over transgender bathroom directive Florida parents crowd funding fight against third grade retention What’s good in public…

Children’s advocate leading effort to lower voting age for school board, superintendent elections

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…

Education Another 10 states sue Obama administration over bathroom guidance for transgender students

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…

Okaloosa County hospitals get Business Recognition Award from Florida Department of Education

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…

Florida also issues district grades, lowest performing elementary schools

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…

FSBA #FridayFive – Week of July 4, 2016

FSBA #FridayFive – 5 Things You Should Know Getting America’s Missing Students Back to Class – Bloomberg View Amazon Jumps into Digital Ed Resource Business; Starts with OER — THE Journal  Senators press Obama education chief on reforms | TheHill Librarians fear for what’s being lost as they transition – Washington Times  Education Department Continues…