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The passage of the Stop Woke Act and Parental Rights in Education laws are causing some educators to "err on the side of caution," says Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association.
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Charter schools make up less than a quarter of Duval's public schools, but they represent almost half of the low-performing ones, according to new state school grades.
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Duval County Public Schools took down an anti-bullying video that taught middle and high school students how to support their LGBTQ peers, a Jacksonville Today review of internal district emails showed.
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Duval students made improvements in FSAs for math and maintained their scores in English.
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Some said Florida's new civics standards downplay slavery and portray separation of church and state as a misconception.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that allows students to apply paid work toward the required service hours. In the end, more students might qualify for scholarships.
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District attorneys say the guide is being modified to comply with Florida's new Parental Rights in Education law — dubbed by critics as "Don't Say Gay."
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School boards will be required to adopt procedures that, in part, provide for the “regular removal or discontinuance” of books from media centers based on factors such as alignment to state academic standards.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis says he will approve $800 million included in the state budget to raise pay for veteran and beginning teachers.
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A committee overseeing the use of money from a half-cent sales tax is concerned about whether charter schools are using the money illegally to pay down debt.