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On their November ballots, First Coast voters have up to six judges facing the question: Should they keep their job?

Lots of millennial-aged Democrats crowded in the University of North Florida’s Boathouse restaurant Tuesday evening to watch the poll numbers.

Northeast Florida parents of autistic children and their therapists are calling on state health regulators to speed up Medicaid coverage approvals for a specific therapy.

Applied Behavioral Analysis is widely used to help autistic people control harmful behaviors and learn to communicate better.

But advocates said a recent state-contractor switch is making patients miss treatment.

Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart has determined several Florida school districts — Duval, Manatee and Polk counties — that were accused of inflating end-of-course civics test numbers by several lawmakers did nothing wrong.

Updated 7/6 at 12:25 p.m.

Updated 6/27 at 8:15 a.m.

Update: Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart determined the accused districts did nothing wrong. Read the story here.

A state appeals court Monday rejected a challenge to the half-cent pension tax that Jacksonville voters approved in 2016.

Next school year the Duval County School District could employ double the current number of therapists. That’s part of its plan to strengthen mental health services for students under the state’s school safety bill passed after February’s Parkland shooting.