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Thirty science teachers across the district received $200 grants from the Scientists' Society of Southwest Florida, so they can purchase STEM teaching supplies
The rates, released earlier this month by the Florida Department of Education, show Collier's graduation rate rose to 92.6%, while Lee's dipped to 85.1%.
>> well, we had guidelines from the governor, of course, stating that we had to have everybody in the brick and mortar schools with only one option as far as a virtual school -- well, i'm sorry, let me take that back. there was a virtual option, which we have a lee virtual. we had a florida virtual and home schooling, of course. there was an opt out for parents, which we had to implement so they could actually opt out of wearing masks but our -- what we found is that our lee virtual school filled up immediately. then we had the secondary, which was the florida that also filled up quite quick. ...
>> yeah. so before the announcement that parents could opt out of masks for children, it has been three weeks since kids went back to school in your district. were you seeing a large influx of cases? why did you decide that policy needed to change? >> well, we had guidelines from the governor of course, stating that we had to have everybody in the brick and mortar schools with only one option as far as a virtual school -- let me take that back. there was a virtual option, which we have a lee virtual. we had a florida virtual, and then we had homeschooling of course. there was an opt out for pa...
Kids learn better in classrooms Face-to-face models show greatest gains in proficiency; student accomplishment expected to continue to improve in quarter 4 By MEGHAN BRADBURY - | May 5, 2021 Kids learn better in school classrooms, data collected by the School District of Lee County shows. Although distance learning proved to be effective in some areas, numbers presented to the School Board of Lee County this week pointed towards the “face-to-face” model showing the greatest gains in student proficiency as measured by the number of students showing a satisfactory or higher level of achiev...