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Four candidates offered an early look at this year’s Hillsborough County School Board races on Friday, telling an audience at a Tampa Tiger Bay Club forum that they mostly agree on crucial issues affecting public schools. They concurred that African American history must be taught. Teachers must be paid adequately, they said. And culture war issues are detracting from the important work of ...
Reports of fighting, tardiness, vaping and other common school infractions have dropped considerably from this time last year, Hillsborough County school district leaders told the school board at a work session Tuesday. Overall, disciplinary referrals dropped from 66,313 to 58,963 when two mid-year reports were compared. The number of times students were caught skipping class dropped by more ...
School district leaders say calmer schools are a first step toward higher achievement.
Researchers believe the COVID-19 pandemic could be to blame for some of the lower school grades that the Florida Department of Education recently released.
The big story: Florida’s “recess moms” are back to lobbying. They wish they didn’t have to be. But a proposal in the state Senate calls for changes to the physical education law that the parents fear would undo their 2017 effort to get 20 minutes of daily recess mandated in public elementary schools. Rather than waiting for the concept to get too far along, the moms are lobbying to kill it ...