Public school teachers in Florida are now banned from holding classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the controversial "Parental Rights in Education" bill.
State health department says: Masks work. A study conducted by the National Institutes of Health found that mandatory masking policies in schools reduced COVID-19 transmission by approximately 72%.
The new law will apply to students entering ninth grade in the 2023-2024 school year, and require that they take a half-credit course in personal finance before they graduate.
The influx of one-time federal K-12 funding provides a unique opportunity to rethink how we organize resources so all high school students are well served
Go back in time with us for a moment. At the end of 2020-21, the big instructional challenge facing schools seemed obvious: help students rebound academically as quickly as possible.
While the state appears ready to renew the certificates of two schools, officials have noted concerns regarding both schools' "poor academic outcomes" and "the delivery of its academic program."
Bad weather used to be the main reason schools closed until COVID, and until social media—the latter of which is now closing classrooms far more regularly than is the pandemic.
