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Kelly Services, one of the country’s largest staffing agencies, says Florida doesn’t have enough substitute teachers headed into the new school year.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed this year’s state budget, which includes about $200 million for teacher pay raises. However, school officials across Florida say that’s not enough.
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Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Monday, June 10 that more than a billion dollars of this year’s budget have been earmarked for teacher pay. But teachers unions aren’t cheering.
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More than 386,000 applications for the upcoming school year have been submitted, surpassing the number of vouchers awarded last school year.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed bills that include seeking to prevent "indoctrination" in teacher-training programs and beginning to allow credit unions to hold state money.
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DeSantis says bad actors have turned book banning into a political stunt in Florida's K-12 schools.
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Professors and students at the University of South Florida mapped pitch, rhythm and duration to data about algae blooms and depletion of coral reefs to create an original composition.
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The in-person program is a collaboration with the Florida Virtual School and Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
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A bill awaiting Governor Ron DeSantis’ signature, would allow chaplains to act as school counselors in Florida K-12 schools. But some LGBTQ advocates have questions about whether having clergy act as counselors will do more harm than good.
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The Board, which oversees the state’s public universities, will vote on replacing sociology with an American History course as a general education core course option and a way to meet the state’s civic literacy requirement.
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The legislative session has come to an end and bills are headed to the governor's desk. Here are some key pieces of legislation that public education watchers will be following in the upcoming school year.
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Students at Challenger 7 Elementary will start year-round school on July 22.
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Students and teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom, provided it's not part of instruction, under a settlement between Florida officials and civil rights lawyers.
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According to the poll results, 92% of Florida parents want public school curricula to be created by education professionals, while just 22% support appointing political figures with little educational background to set education policy.