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A Jacksonville mom felt forced to remove her son from Mayport Middle School after he became a target for bullies.

According to Duval County Public Schools data, 510 fights recorded last year at Duval County high schools or on buses involving those schools. When the I-TEAM compared data from the first 60 days of this school year to the same timeframe last school, it appears the district is on track to see roughly the same number of fights by the end of the year.

The school district hurriedly made arrangements last week to teach other accelerated classes. Now, schools have a choice.

Education authorities in the US county of Duval, in Florida, reject claims a book by renowned Australian children's author Mem Fox has been banned from classrooms, saying the work has instead been "approved" for school libraries and is not on a list of 21 "not-approved" titles.

Chamblin Bookmine Manager Abby Bell said it's heartbreaking that Florida has banned hundreds of books in an effort to censor what students learn about.

Duval County Schools has determined there is no threat on campus at Lake Shore Middle. Circling online are rumors about a weapon on campus or a suspicious person.

Just in time for cap-and-gown season, new high school graduates will be at the head of the line in a virtual job fair that CareerSource Northeast Florida is hosting Thursday. The online fair’s first hour – between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. – is reserved for the new graduates. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., anyone can join the fair, where more than 100 area businesses will be looking for employees. To take part, job seekers have to register at http://bit.ly/virtualjob520. The fair is happening on the...

After months of watching civil rights demonstrations through the country and on the streets of Jacksonville — at times even participating themselves — the students were surprised when in February the school district didnt seize the opportunity to use Black History Month as an education tool to drive lessons about local racial justice movements and Black history. Instead, the school district launched its own inaugural month-long campaign for mental health and suicide awareness called You Mat...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Duval County families have two official sources of information about the spread of the coronavirus in their local schools — the statewide report published approximately once a week by the Florida Department of Health and the Duval County Public Schools COVID-19 Dashboard, updated daily. However, the two have different criteria for which cases are included in their respective reports. As of Dec. 13, the FDOH report shows 1,326 confirmed cases of the virus among students ...