Richard Corcoran Will Be Paid $1.3 Million to Remake New College in...
New College of Florida President Richard Corcoran is set to earn up to $1.3 million per year in salary and benefits under a five-year contract approved Friday. Corcoran’s time as interim president of...
View ArticleSchool Board Attorney Gavin Fends Off Firing Squad as Superintendent Will...
The Flagler County School Board Tuesday evening again stopped short of firing Kristy Gavin, its attorney, after it was sharply cautioned by Superintendent LaShakia Moore against taking such a vote...
View ArticleHow a School Superintendent in Maine Addressed the War in Gaza with Students...
Jim Tager, a former superintendent of schools in Flagler, describes himself "privileged and inadequate to fully grasp the experiences of people in the Middle East," but seeing his district through its...
View ArticleDeSantis’s Censorship University System Is Causing a Brain Drain
DeSantis is obsessed with remaking education according to his authoritarian tendencies, doing his damnedest to wreck K-12 with his army of book-banning harpies in “Moms for Liberty” and his Scared...
View Article‘In God We Trust’ Tests Limits of Religion in Public Schools
Louisiana passed a law in August 2023 requiring public schools to post “In God We Trust” in every classroom – from elementary school to college. Even under recent Supreme Court precedents, the...
View ArticleBrendan Depa Tenders Open Plea in Beating of Matanzas High Staffer, Leaving...
Brendan Depa, the 18-year-old special education student facing up to 30 years in prison for the merciless beating of a Matanzas High School teacher aide last February, pleaded to the first-degree...
View ArticleLawmakers’ Special Session Seeks to Expand Public Funding for Private...
Florida lawmakers are gearing up to provide additional funding to a part of the state's school-voucher program that serves students with special needs, as some proponents of the scholarships say demand...
View ArticleTeachers Union Blisters School Board Over ‘Fiscal Irresponsibility’ and...
In a letter to her membership, Elisabeth Dias, president of the Flagler County Education Foundation, the teachers union, calls attention to what she terms the potential "wrongful termination" without...
View ArticleA Student Is Bitten By a Wild Rat at Buddy Taylor Middle School’s Farm;...
Two Buddy Taylor Middle School students were bitten and one of them injured by wild rats, while two dozen students were exposed to the rats as a teacher was flushing them out of a hole with a water...
View ArticleAs School Board Risks Wrongful Termination Suit, Value of Attorney’s Contract...
The three-member majority of the Flagler County School Board that wants to fire Attorney Kristy Gavin thinks it can do so at the cost of 14 weeks' pay. The remaining board members say that risks...
View ArticleACLU Calls Out Florida’s Suppression of Palestinian Students’ Voices
Top leaders at the American Civil Liberties Union criticized Florida in a letter Wednesday for demanding the deactivation of chapters of a pro-Palestine student organization. More than 600 college and...
View ArticleWhen Even Ed Danko Is Right
Ed Danko is right to resist Mayor David Alfin’s proposal to have all council members sign “Code of Conduct,” including a pledge of civility. It is not an elected board’s place collectively to regulate...
View ArticleFlagler School Board’s Will Furry Criticizes District for Following Public...
In a long diatribe at a workshop today, Flagler County School Board member Will Furry repeatedly implied that the district should have redacted an investigative report about a teacher at Buddy Taylor...
View ArticleA Sociology Course That Deals with Gender, Sexuality and Race May be Demoted...
The Principles of Sociology class, which still would be available to students, would no longer count toward fulfilling required social-science coursework. The class involves lessons on gender, sex and...
View ArticleFlorida Lawmakers Want to Reduce Regulations in Public Schools
Florida lawmakers are looking at ways to take some regulations off the books for public schools. A new law law directed the State Board of Education to identify potential repeals and revisions in the...
View ArticleControversial PragerU Materials that Distort Science and Whitewash History...
PragerU, which is not a university, is founded and run by conservative talk-show host Dennis Prager and funded by a number of like-minded philanthropists. PragerU touts its conservative view as a “free...
View ArticleUF Ordered to Pay $372,000 in Legal Fees in Case that Violated Professors’...
A federal judge has awarded more than $372,000 in legal fees to attorneys who represented professors in a high-profile lawsuit against the University of Florida over being able to serve as expert...
View ArticleFlagler Playhouse Season Will Continue at Matanzas’s Pirates Theater as...
The Flagler Playhouse's shows will go on: the venerable company's 150-foot theater in downtown Bunnell was demolished two weeks ago, but in a Phoenix-like turn-around, its next three shows will be...
View ArticleStetson’s Symphony Orchestra to Bring Holiday Magic
Stetson University’s Symphony Orchestra will bring the holiday magic to downtown Mount Dora on Saturday, Dec. 2, providing a spirited musical performance as concertgoers enjoy the town's dazzling...
View ArticleProposal Would Reduce Testing But Lower Standards and Shift Academic...
A trio of education bills passed by the Senate K-12 education committee ease the burden of standardized tests, eliminate the requirement for Algebra 1 end-of-course exam and 10th-grade English Language...
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