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Unruly public commenters shut down a Flagler School Board meeting and one mom is considering suing the district for forcing her son to quarantine.

Flagler Schools’ substitute teacher list has been purged of anyone who has been inactive — some haven’t taken a job in 18 months — in an effort to eliminate unemployment fraud, Chief Human Resources Officer Jewel Johnson told the School Board at its workshop May 4. The district says about $200,000 in unemployment claims from the previous two quarters were fraudulent. The most recent quarter, covering October to December 2020, was a “more manageable” $42,000, reported Patty Wormeck, Flagler Schools’ chief financial officer. The district has about 150 substitutes on the books, wi...

Flagler Schools' middle schools will gain a grade — and elementary schools will lose one — if the district moves forward with plans to shift sixth graders from elementary to middle schools in the 2022-2023 school year.  BY THE NUMBERS 412 389  145 115 329 275 505 385 seats at Matanzas High School Moving the sixth graders will raise the district's overall student capacity and add space in overburdened elementary schools, but also put more pressure on middle school campuses, requiring the district to rezone all of the schools. The district's current grade level arrangement groups chil...

2 months ago Share The first Teen Town Hall was held the evening of Jan. 21 and moderated by the district's two student School Board members. Flagler Schools' first Teen Town Hall event went well enough that local parents are asking for their own. "Parents love it," School Board member Cheryl Massaro said at a Feb. 2 School Board workshop. "They want one for themselves. They want a town hall." School Board member Colleen Conklin said she'd heard the same thing and had already reached out to district staff to attempt to set one up. The first Teen Town Hall was held the evening ...

2 months ago Share The district will pay for a new impact fee study and look at ways to lessen overcrowding, such as rezoning. When calculating the fees that the developer of a proposed community on John Anderson Highway should pay to offset the number of students the new homes will generate, the school district initially got it wrong, undershooting the number based on outdated data and leading the School Board to reject it.  The district has fixed that error and come to an agreement with the developer of the proposed community, called the Hammock Beach River Club and formerl...