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The 1-mill tax would go toward recruiting and retaining teachers, and to athletics and arts programs.
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Teachers also have concerns about a proposal regulating how districts can teach about racism, as well as another regulating schoolbooks. Meanwhile, Duval School Board members remain silent about any legislation.
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Republican state Rep. Sam Garrison says he'd use the money to screen school books harder. Opponents say good candidates won't run without pay.
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Almost a hundred Duval school staff reported having COVID this week. Forty-six new cases were reported on Friday alone, the highest number on a single day since the start of the school year.
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Florida Education Association president Andrew Spar says a "massive exodus" of teachers is contributing to the shortage.
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The Clay County Schools superintendent has followed the lead of Flagler County Schools and removed "All Boys Aren't Blue," a critically acclaimed memoir of growing up Black and queer.
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The governor is promoting legislation that would, in part, allow parents to sue schools that teach that racism is embedded in American institutions.
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Two white Yulee High School students who made a video using racial slurs went unpunished because they weren't yet students, according to the Nassau County School District. That explanation does not satisfy some parents, and the controversy itself has spotlighted a racial divide that civic activists hope to heal.
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The state Board of Education unanimously approved Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran’s request to cut funding equal to School Board member's salaries — plus whatever the federal government contributes to make up the difference.
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Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran wants to take away federal money meant to reimburse school districts for the state's mask penalties. The state Board of Education will meet Thursday to determine whether mask mandates in Duval and 10 other districts comply with state law.