Alachua County interim school superintendent has big goals for COVID-19, equity
COVID-19 threatens to worsen the district’s dismal racial achievement gap, a state-required plan for how the district will deal with the pandemic is coming due and the everyday job of running the system must continue.
Despite all that, Simon said she is not going to be merely a caretaker in the interim role. Instead will try to get the district on a new course regarding equity while ensuring that students and staff are as safe as can be during the pandemic.
“The district has struggled with certain levels of managing equity concerns, and COVID has shined a brighter light on things that need to be addressed,” Simon said. “I think we have some exciting opportunities for the future to consider and try to establish.”
Jacksonville University opened its campus in 1934. It is planning its first-ever expansion in Palm Coast by next fall. (Facebook)
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As bleak a year as it’s been, for Palm Coast, it’s also been the Year of the Universities.
In October, the University of North Florida and Palm Coast launched a partnership that will result in a UNF satellite campus in Town Center by fall. Today, in a second coup for the city and its innovation district, Jacksonville University and Palm Coast announced a joint partnership that will open a JU campus in town–the university’s first-ever expansion outside of Jacksonville in its 86-year history–and enroll 150 to 200 full-time students within 24 months. The focus will be health-care education, and more specifically, nursing.