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The United States Secretary of Education doesn’t visit every day, so Cypress Bay High School rolled out its jazz band as a musical welcome mat. “I could...
A measured, careful approach to selecting the next school superintendent in Broward County contrasts sharply with the rush job in Dade, in which a state education insider is a top candidate.
Best of the best as far as medical advice and public health advice, and we're looking at five specific criteria. number one, the number of hospitalizations in our county, specific to covid-19, the percentage of beds in hospitals that are being utilized by covid-19 patients, the pos positivity rate in our community and the most critical of all factors, which is number of infected individuals per 100,000 residents. out of the five criteria, we're meeting four of them, which means in a couple of weeks, we probably will meet all of the criteria. that's why we adjusted downward, the requirements fo...
Florida governor desantis is withholding funds from two school districts that made masks mandatory in classrooms this fall one of which is broward county where dr. vicky cartwright is the interim superintendent and dr. cartwright joins me now. i want to make sure i understand this. pursuant to an executive order from the governor you can't have a vaccine requirement for your staff, teachers and staff in schools, correct? >> well, that is something we would have to review coming up in the future. we have not at this point in time not had legal counsel to advise us as to what we are allowed to d...
Dr. cartwright let me begin with you as a practice question, what does this mean? the state has handed down the department of education this order that they're taking the money away from your school district. who's losing the money, how do they do it, and what's your reaction to? >> so first and foremost, thank you very much for this opportunity to talk with you this morning. what is happening at this point is on a monthly basis we get funds that come from the state, and so today on september the 1st, what will happen is they will have removed the amount of our school board's monthly salary aw...