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
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…
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…
FSBA #FridayFive – 5 Things You Should Know National research on teacher job satisfaction Integrating bees into the school curriculum Amazon enters into education marketplace Texas district hires high school students to teach the teachers about tech State Schools Chiefs concerned about ESSA implementation
TALLAHASSEE — Throughout Florida, parents of third graders who refused to take state exams are consulting attorneys about their legal options for fighting school districts’ plans to hold back their children. Florida law prohibits third graders who fail state reading tests from being promoted to the fourth grade, unless they are granted a “good cause”…
Five things you should know: Please tell me you watched The Bee Report: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates “Maker Faires” are important for kids for their hands on experiences Monday’s nationwide bomb threats may have been swatting 11 states sue over Obama’s bathroom directive
TALLAHASSEE A panel of appeals court judges will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in the next phase of a high-profile and controversial lawsuit challenging a voucher-like scholarship program that helps poor children attend private school in Florida. But the merits of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program won’t be argued just yet. First to be…
An Escambia County grand jury indicted Newpoint Education Partners and three other companies for grand theft, money laundering and aggravated white collar crime. Newpoint managed charter schools in Escambia County for 21st Century Academy of Pensacola. Last year, the Escambia County SchoolBoard revoked charters for Newpoint Academy and Newpoint High for grade tampering and misuse of…
TALLAHASSEE — Thousands of youths in Florida’s child-welfare system have gotten in trouble with the law — and when they do, their caregivers often refuse to take them back. Now, policymakers are trying to improve services to the teens, saying those children had already been abused or neglected when they began acting out in foster…
TALLAHASSEE — A coalition of teacher unions and civil rights groups representing millions of public school children gets a second crack at persuading the courts they have the right to sue the state over a school voucher program that pays for children to go to religious private schools. But before they walk through the courthouse…