By Amanda DeVoe and Ariel Schiller The Duval County School Board unanimously passed an updated ethics policy after battling several employee misconduct issues. The ethics policy was last updated in February 2023, but since then, six teachers have been removed from classes at Douglas... Continue Reading
By April Rubin Dogs may not have anything to eat, but students could feel less stress if more schools reconsider their homework assignment policies.Why it matters: Conversations about the value of homework in education have simmered for years, but students' mental health struggles and... Continue Reading
By Sky Lebron If you struggle to get good cell service while living or driving in Citrus County, the county school board wants to help. It's finalizing an agreement to use some of its old internet towers as cell service towers instead. School board member Douglas Dodd says residents have... Continue Reading
By Chad Aldeman As a candidate for president in 2020, Kamala Harris introduced a plan to raise teacher salaries by $13,500. Why that specific dollar amount? Harris was thinking along economic lines, and she sold the policy as one that would erase the teacher wage gap, as documented over the... Continue Reading
Rob Ferl went to space as part of a NASA-funded program on Blue Origin’s New Shepard.ByDivya Kumar - Times staffPublished Aug. 31 University of Florida professor Rob Ferl first began doing space-related research in the 1990s. In 2021, he and research partner Anna-Lisa Paul sent test tubes... Continue Reading
By Sarah Schwartz Attention school administrators: Teachers think you could be creating a better work environment—and they have suggestions for how to do it. Teachers want leaders to trust them with autonomy in the classroom. They want time to collaborate with colleagues and take care... Continue Reading
By Mary Ellen Ritter Volusia County Schools and Volusia United Educators Support settled their contract Tuesday and, if approved, more district employees will see their salaries increase this year. The contract includes the following agreements, according to a district press release:... Continue Reading
By Drew Dixon PNC Bank and EVERFI from BlackBaud, an educational technology platform development firm, are teaming up to increase financial literacy among Florida high school students in response to a new state law. PNC and EVERFI have developed a curriculum they are pitching to School... Continue Reading
By Jeffrey S. Solochek In an effort to maximize the efficiency of its space and staff, the Pasco County school district has proposed closing one of its under-capacity elementary schools and merging it with a nearby elementary-middle campus to become a kindergarten through eighth-grade... Continue Reading
By Kara Arundel A historic influx of federal funding to help K-12 schools recover from setbacks created by the worst global pandemic in modern times has largely been spent without waste or fraud so far — and it has been essential for students’ academic recuperation, several... Continue Reading
By Brook Silva-Braga Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress. In response, many schools are rethinking how they teach kids to read. In one New York City first grade... Continue Reading
By Mark Lieberman Roughly 12 percent of America’s K-12 students attend school in a building that has solar panels, and that number is likely to grow in the coming years thanks to an onslaught of new federal funding promoting clean energy adoption, according to a new report from the... Continue Reading
