Apopka Bowling Team Wins National Title
The Apopka High School Boys Bowling has a new title, “National Champions.” The Apopka team was in 3rd place after the morning qualifying round and advanced with 11 other teams to Round 2. Read full article
Floridians can shop for back-to-school items tax free next weekend
Florida shoppers should be reminded that a three-day back-to-school tax holiday is right around the corner! Shoppers won’t pay sales tax on clothes worth $60 or less and on school supplies worth $15 or less. The tax holiday runs Aug. 5 through Aug. 7. Read full article
U.S. Department of Education Releases Guidance On Civil Rights of Students with ADHD
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today issued guidance clarifying the obligation of schools to provide students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with equal educational opportunity under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Read full article
Back to school: Classes starting early this year in many Florida districts
School starts early this year in many Florida districts, thanks to a new state law that allows an earlier opening day. Public schools in Lake, Osceola and Seminole counties open for students Aug. 10, about two weeks earlier than they did last year. Forty of the state’s 67 school districts also start classes on that…
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…
Polk County educator named Florida Teacher of the Year
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…
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…
Student test scores tick upward in Florida
TAMPA — Statewide scores on the Florida Standards Assessment showed modest gains this year, the Florida Department of Education said Friday as it released a large batch of results. Closer to home, there were gains and losses in the Tampa Bay area. Pinellas math scores were up. Hillsborough students dropped a bit in English. And…
Interdistrict Enrollment is Appealing but Tricky
Florida schools are preparing for next year’s rollout of one of the nation’s most unrestricted open-enrollment laws allowing students to more easily cross district lines to go to school—a practice that has grown slowly nationwide amid both statutory and practical hurdles. Nationwide, 23 states had some type of mandatory, interdistrict open-enrollment laws in 2015, prior…