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Robert Runcie speaking to the statewide commission that investigated the 2018 Parkland School shooting.
After Florida s 20th statewide grand jury indicted Broward County School Superintendent Robert Runcie, and the district s general counsel last month, here s a breakdown of the process for statewide grand juries, why the exist and what happens after they are done meeting.
The Broward County Public School district is negotiating separation agreements for Superintendent Robert Runcie and the district s top attorney Barbara Myrick after they each announced last week that they will step down.
Both of them were indicted by a statewide grand jury investigating the use of school safety funds. Runcie pleaded not guilty to a perjury charge. Myrick has not entered a plea for her charge of illegally revealing information about the grand jury.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Anna Fusco, the Broward Teachers Union president, said on Tuesday that she was happy to see teachers receiving the protection they need during the coronavirus pandemic.
“I think it’s awesome. I think it should have been done a lot sooner where they opened it up for everybody to be able to get it,” Fusco said.
Broward County Public Schools’ employees who are age 18 or older are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine this week at the T.Y. (Topeekeegee Yugnee) Park in Hollywood.
“It’s just going to bring more and more people in our community vaccinated,” Fusco said.
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A small crowd applauded her at a ceremony Friday afternoon.
The school district allocated $800,000 from its SMART bond program to get the demolition done. Across the district, however, dozens of the district s other renovation projects are way behind schedule, including new air conditioning systems that need to be installed and new cafeterias that need to be constructed.
Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie said that When we started out, back in 2014, the thought was that we d do roof maintenance work. Now, we re doing roof replacement on probably 90% of the roofs we have in the county.
He said the surface area of all the roofs the districts is replacing is equal to the pavement on the entire length of I-595. The bond program’s price tag jumped from $800 million to $1.4 billion.