Stella Arduser News Today

Cynthia Tennell, a fifth-grade teacher at M.K. Rawlings Center for Fine Arts, has been nominated as a Florida finalist for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

Opposition among parents and teachers is brewing over the introduction of a pilot program that would bring year-round classes to two Alachua County schools.

Metcalfe and Rawlings Elementary Schools will move to the year-round calendar beginning this July and running through the 2028-29 school year.

Metcalfe and Rawlings Elementary Schools will move to the year-round calendar beginning this July and running through the 2028-29 school year.

Archer Elementary School Principal Stella Arduser has been demoted but not fired as recommended after a school district investigation found that there is a “preponderance of evidence” that she violated School Board policies. In a recent letter to Arduser, a school official said she has been reassigned to a supervisory position in the district’s learning resources department in the Sivia Center, handling media services. Kevin Purvis, the assistant superintendent of human resources who pr...

The principal of Archer Elementary School has been placed on administrative leave as the district investigates employee complaints, a letter sent out to parents states. The exact reason for the action against Stella Arduser cannot be released at this time under state law, school officials said. “Although we are not able to share any additional information at this time, I can assure you that none of those complaints involves students,” the letter from school officials to parents said. “The...