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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.
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More than 1,000 Florida residents were surveyed about their beliefs about public education, public school funding, and who should call the shots in the state’s public schools.
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HB 109 would allow municipalities to apply to convert public schools within city bounds into charters.
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Dozens of students, parents and teachers spoke out against district-wide book bans at a protest held outside the Brevard County School Board meeting Tuesday, February 6.
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A group of students are analyzing their science experiment after it was aboard the ISS and landed back on Earth.
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The federal government is currently doing more than ten times the enforcement of existing child labor law compared to Florida, even though Florida law is currently more strict than the federal government. Now, some lawmakers want to weaken Florida child labor law.