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School boards urge justices to decide education fight

October 18, 2019 / fsbawp / Accountability, Advocacy, Charter Schools, Facilities, In the News, Legal News, Legislation, Legislative Session, School Boards, School Choice, School Governance

Saying the case involves protecting “local control over local schools by local representatives answerable to local voters,” nine county school boards urged the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday to take up a battle about a 2017 state law that sought to bolster charter schools. Read More

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It’s okay for Florida superintendents to propose hiring their relatives

October 1, 2019 / fsbawp / Accountability, Advocacy, Ethics, In the News, Legal News, Legislation, Legislative Session, School Boards, School Governance

In many, if not most, Florida counties, the local school district is the largest employer.  That gives the superintendent of schools plenty of power when it comes to hiring and firing. But what happens if one of the superintendent’s relatives needs a job? Read More Read the Ethics Commission Opinion

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Turnaround schools would need state approval to change principals under new proposal

September 3, 2019 / fsbawp / Accountability, Advocacy, Assessments, FLDOE, In the News, Legal News, Legislative Session, Personnel, School Governance

For several years now, Florida Board of Education members have expected — demanded, in fact — principal changes at the state’s most struggling schools.  The board has insisted on leadership shifts as a condition of approving improvement plans, and has held superintendents’ feet to the fire if those moves haven’t come swiftly enough. Read More […]

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State asks judge to toss lawsuit over teacher bonuses

August 30, 2019 / fsbawp / Accountability, Advocacy, Budget, In the News, Legal News, Legislation, Legislative Session, Personnel, School Governance

The Florida Department of Education on Wednesday asked a Tallahassee judge to toss a lawsuit that seeks to have the state pay money to teachers that school districts deducted from bonuses.The lawsuit, filed last month, accused state officials of improperly instructing school districts to deduct employer taxes from teacher bonus awards granted under the “Best […]

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School districts lose another round in court over law that bolsters charter schools

August 29, 2019 / fsbawp / Accountability, Advocacy, Budget, Charter Schools, Facilities, In the News, Legal News, Legislation, Legislative Session, National, School Boards, School Governance

The dozen Florida school districts that sued the Legislature over a controversial 2017 law establishing and funding a new charter school system have suffered another setback in court.  While acknowledging the districts had a limited right to challenge the law, a three-judge panel of the First District Court of Appeal found the districts’ legal arguments […]

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Florida launches school security database with student discipline, health, social media info

August 4, 2019 / fsbawp / 2019 Legislative Session, Accountability, Advocacy, Health & Safety, In the News, Legal News, Legislation, Public Records, School Governance

The Florida Department of Education rolled out its database of student information late Thursday that’s designed to enhance school security in the wake of last year’s shooting in Parkland.The data is primarily for groups of law enforcement, counselors and other school staff charged with evaluating threats made by students and deciding which ones may need […]

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‘Little bit vague’: Grand jury report on school safety puzzles North Florida school officials

July 23, 2019 / fsbawp / 2019 Legislative Session, Accountability, Advocacy, Budget, Health & Safety, In the News, Legal News, Legislation, Personnel, School Governance

Florida school district officials are on alert in the days after an interim grand jury report found that some districts in the state’s 67 counties “have failed — or refused — to accept their responsibility for school safety.”  The grand jury report is dated Friday, July 19, 2019 and found that “numerous school districts” in the state […]

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Grand jury: Florida schools, police bickering over security

July 20, 2019 / fsbawp / 2019 Legislative Session, Accountability, Advocacy, Budget, Health & Safety, In the News, Legal News, Legislation, Personnel, School Governance

Some Florida school districts and law enforcement agencies have not fully complied with security measures enacted after a 2018 high school massacre because they are bickering over who is responsible, an interim report by a statewide grand jury says. Read More Read First Interim Grand Jury Report

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FBI warns of rise in cyberattacks against schools as they embrace digital learning

July 17, 2019 / fsbawp / Accountability, Advocacy, Budget, Health & Safety, In the News, Legal News, Online Learning, School Choice

Over six weeks, the vandals kept coming, knocking the school system’s network offline several times a day.There was no breach of sensitive data files, but the attacks in which somebody deliberately overwhelmed the Avon Public Schools system in Connecticut still proved costly. Classroom lesson plans built around access to the internet had come to a […]

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Justices to hear Parkland liability dispute

April 14, 2019 / fsbawp / 2018 Legislative Session, 2019 Legislative Session, Accountability, Advocacy, Budget, Health & Safety, In the News, Legal News, Legislation

The Florida Supreme Court said Friday it will hear arguments in a dispute about how much the Broward County School Board could be forced to pay to parents and victims in last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.  Justices issued a unanimous order saying they will take up the case and will […]

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