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Summer school 2021 will be big, and hopefully better than usual Educators know children need to catch up. But, after a grueling pandemic school year, they donât want it to seem like a chore. Â Â Pinellas County teacher Chelsea Massey, center, displays a bird feeder for third-grade students at 74th Street Elementary School during the first day of the district's Summer Bridge program in 2019. Engaging activities like that will be more frequent during this year's summer programs after a grueling year spent under pandemic restrictions. Schools across the Tampa Bay area and Florida plan summer programs like none other in recent memory.
Hillsboroughâs charter school growth challenged by new board members How hard will they push back against Floridaâs school choice agenda? Â Â Waterset Charter School in Apollo Beach serves more than 1,100 students. More than 30,000 Hillsborough County students are learning at charter schools, which use public money but are operated outside the school system. [ Courtesy of Waterset Charter ] TAMPA â They campaigned on a platform to protect the public schools. Now some Hillsborough County School Board members are looking for ways to change the way they deal with charter schools â those privately managed, yet publicly funded institutions that sign up tens of thousands of Hillsborough public school students every year.