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Florida education news: testing, safety and a gubernatorial candidate’s take on education

 
Published June 18, 2018

SAFE SCHOOLS: Miami-Dade School District asks local police departments to help put a cop on every campus, WLRN reports.

TESTING: Four of Marion County’s worst-performing schools make gains on state tests, the Star-Banner reports. • Duval County schools continue to lag in state reading, math, the Times-Union reports. • Manatee County schools amp up scores on state tests, the Bradenton Herald reports. • Miami-Dade students post historically high scores on standardized tests, the Miami Herald reports.

SUPERINTENDENT: Outgoing Manatee County schools Superintendent Diane Greene says the past school year was one of the most eventful of her career, the Herald-Tribune reports.

GRADUATION: Bay County School District’s Rosenwald High School honors Class of 1968, which was split during its senior year by integration, the News Herald reports.

ELECTIONS: Urban planner David Haight joins race for District 5 seat of the Bay County School Board, the News Herald reports. • Gubernatorial candidate Jeff Greene calls for mandatory preschool education and suggests taxing the “super rich” to fund arts, humanities, technical education and free community college, Florida Today reports.

PERSONNEL CHANGES: Trey Csar, president of the Jacksonville Public Education Fund since its 2009 founding, announces July departure, the Times-Union reports. • Citrus County School Board member Thomas Kennedy named chairman of the Florida School Board Association’s Advocacy Committee, the Chronicle reports.

SUMMER CAMP: Jacksonville Beach summer camp offers drone pilot school and other technology to kids, the Times-Union reports.

TAXES: Brevard County School Board abandons tax hike for security and teacher raises in fear it would fail, Florida Today reports.

ACTIVE SHOOTER: School districts in Palm Beach and Martin counties buy active shooter insurance, WPTV reports.

PARKLAND: Attorney says former Broward County sheriff’s deputy who waited outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the February shooting there had no legal duty to stop the shooter, the Sun-Sentinel reports.

PAIN TO PROFIT: Two groups sell rocks taken from the grounds of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, marketing them as “murderabilia,” the Sun-Sentinel reports.

PUBLIC RECORDS: Paralegal says Sarasota County School District overcharges for public records, the Herald-Tribune reports.