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Blaine amendments ‘discriminate against all religion’
As religious and education interest groups furiously file amicus briefs in the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case on whether states can ban faith-based schools from voucher programs, a respected Catholic...
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fact-checkED: Family Empowerment Scholarships are not the only state-funded...
Julian Cruz, pictured here with his mother, Emily, was one of the first students to receive a Gardiner Scholarship for students with special needs. The direct-state-funded scholarship now serves nearly...
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fact-checkED: Family Empowerment Scholarship not ‘a hit to public schools’
Editor’s note: This post is another in our fact-checking series, one that focuses solely within the arena of educational choice. The goal of fact-checkED is to bring clinical precision to complex...
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Opioid lawsuit recruiting, teacher pay fight, teachers under attack,...
Opioid lawsuit: The Miami-Dade County School District is recruiting other districts to join its pending lawsuit against manufacturers and distributors of opioids. The suit was filed in south Florida...
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District joins vaping suit, student killed by school bus, education spending,...
District joins vaping suit: Seminole County School Board members vote 4-1 to join school districts in Palm Beach and Brevard counties and around the country in suing the e-cigarette manufacturer Juul...
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Schools closed until April 15, testing and school grades canceled,...
School closings extended: Florida’s K-12 schools will be closed at least until April 15, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday. He also said that the required end-of-the-year K-12 state assessment tests...
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Caution issued about reopening schools too soon, online learning lessons,...
Reopening schools: A family doctor issued a cautionary note Thursday to those planning on reopening K-12 schools next fall. “If schools reopen prematurely, schools are going to become the (place for)...
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20% of teachers considering quitting, in-person ACT testing, school funding...
20% of teachers consider quitting: One of every five U.S. teachers said they are unlikely to return to the classroom if schools reopen in the fall, according to a USA TODAY/Ipsos poll. The health risk...
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Unions’ recommendations to reopen K-12 schools and universities, home SAT...
Reopening K-12 schools: Major changes are needed in the K-12 school system before students return to classes in the fall, the Florida Education Association said Tuesday in a report. Among the...
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State revenues plunged again in May, should schools open or close, the...
State revenues down again: Sales tax revenues were $779.6 million below projections in May, state economists announced Friday. That’s a drop of 31 percent, and added to April’s loss of $878.1 million...
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Teachers union challenging state’s order in court, more school start delays,...
Lawsuit challenges order: A lawsuit has been filed challenging the state’s executive order that directs districts to reopen classrooms to students for five days a week when schools resume in August....
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Private school ‘cushion,’ in-school enrollments, another state order suit,...
Vouchers ‘cushion’ private schools: Florida’s private K-12 schools have been shielded from the worst effects of the coronavirus pandemic by the state’s scholarship programs, according to a report from...
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SEC lays a multimillion dollar fine in Florida teacher-fleecing case
In Salvador Dali’s 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, the artist mastered what he called “the unusual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling.” His goal was “to systematize confusion and thus to help...
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Two more teens die from coronavirus, construction funding decline, masks make...
Two more students die: Two more Florida teenagers have died of complications from the coronavirus, according to the Florida Department of Health. That brings the statewide total to seven since the...
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Teacher of the year named, pre-K enrollment drop forecast, reopening...
Teacher of the year: Krista Stanley, a 6th-grade math teacher at Yearling Middle School in Okeechobee County, has been named the 2021 Florida teacher of the year. “Krista’s passion and commitment...
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Reopening issue heads to court, schools with no lunch, online-only start, a...
Legal maneuverings: The Florida Education Association’s request for an emergency injunction against the state’s executive order to reopen schools began its path through the courts on Wednesday....
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Reopening case moved to Leon, health guidance, Hillsborough chooses online,...
Case moved to Leon County: Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Spencer Eig has agreed with the state that the Florida Education Association’s request for an emergency injunction against the state’s executive...
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Hillsborough is on a deadline, superintendents ask state for help, reopening...
Hillsborough’s deadline: Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran has given the Hillsborough County School District until Friday to amend its proposed reopening plan to conform with state...
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Hillsborough agrees to demand, lawsuit hearing, audit faults Broward, 80...
Hillsborough changes course: Hillsborough County students will attend school online-only for a week, starting Aug. 24, and then schools will reopen Aug. 31 for students who chose to attend classes...
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Reopening suit goes to mediation, standardized tests returning, revenue...
Mediation for lawsuit: The lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s executive order to reopen schools for students five days a week this month is headed to mediation Tuesday between...
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