At the start of the school day, Rory Feinberg says “all anyone talks about is how tired they are.” Rory just finished 11th grade at Miami Beach High School, and as the year progresses, he says his sleep debt tends to accumulate. By the spring, he often falls asleep as soon as he gets home…
The threat carried by a tiny, day-biting, house-loving mosquito has created a new wrinkle in the back-to-school preparation for 187 Palm Beach County campuses where some 190,000 children are due to return Monday. This week, with the news that one of the county’s residents is among those believed to have contracted Zika locally, Gov. Rick…
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Three days after winning relay gold, Caeleb Dressel is closing in on individual honors. The Clay High graduate and University of Florida junior qualified for the 100 free final at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Tuesday. Read full article
As the Zika outbreak expands in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott on Monday directed education officials to protect students heading back to public schools, state colleges and universities, including distributing mosquito repellent to schools in South Florida, where the disease is the most prevalent. Read full article
In 2015, slightly more than half of the nation’s children younger than 1 were non-white, U.S. Census Bureau data indicate. It’s just the latest data point marking a demographic transition, the shift from a majority white nation to one with no majority racial or ethnic group that’s also playing out in the nation’s K-12 classrooms.…
FSBA #FridayFive – Week of August 1, 2016 – 5 Things You Should Know Supreme Court Blocks Rules On Transgender Virginia Student’s Bathroom School board member input critical to Regional Advisory Committees at the U.S. Department of Education survey US teachers get less training than leaders in world educ stats Where Florida ranks on school safety,…
IT’S and Jeananne Folaros, Ole Miss Class of 1974, is doing what she hasn’t done at that time of day in 42 years: She’s reading a book simply for pleasure — “The Nightingale.” It’s the story of teenage sisters in France in 1940 facing the coming German occupation and trying to survive, which might be…
Facing tighter budget restrictions this year, the state Legislature reduced the back-to-school tax free holiday to three days and ruled that the credit this year will not apply to computers or clothing items costing more than $60. Read full article
Although the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have enjoyed wild success as college dropouts, post-secondary education remains the traditional route to professional and financial success for many Americans. Consider the median incomes for workers aged 25 and older in 2015. Those with a bachelor’s degree earned 68 percent more than those with only…