Tampa Bay Times Florida education news: Teacher pay, student data, hazardous walking routes and moretampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek HIRING ETHICS: Can a Florida school board member vote to renew the contract of a family member who works in their district? It depends how many other …
Tampa Bay Times Can a Florida school board member vote to renew a family member’s employment?tampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek How many times have we seen a scenario similar to this one? A school board somewhere in Florida prepares to renew contracts for its employees, usually …
Tampa Bay Times Pasco teacher pay raise proposal hits rocks before landing on bargaining tabletampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek Negotiators for the Pasco County school district and teachers union have not yet started talks over an administration plan to boost salaries by …
Tampa Bay Times Florida education news: Challenging lessons, teacher transfers, custodians speaking Spanish and moretampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek OPPORTUNITY MYTH: Pasco County teachers look for ways to make their classes more interesting and challenging in an effort to help their students meet …
Tampa Bay Times Students are doing their work, but schools are making it too easy, report saystampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek TRINITY — First-year teachers Kevin Knibbs and Kaitlyn Geddes huddled over their laptops at a recent training session, thinking about ways to make …
Tampa Bay Times Hillsborough school custodians speak mostly Spanish. That bothers some teachers.tampabay.com - By Marlene Sokol TAMPA — The Hillsborough County School District surveyed its employees to find out what they thought about custodial services. As the saying goes, be …
Tampa Bay Times Four teachers removed from struggling Hudson Elementary School over test resultstampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek Four teachers at Pasco County’s Hudson Elementary School were involuntarily transferred out of their classrooms Friday, the victims of a state law …
Tampa Bay Times Landlord seeks to evict Plato Academy charter school in Trinity over unpaid renttampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek The management firm that holds the leases to the sites of nine Plato Academy charter schools has moved to throw the school out of its Pasco County …
Tampa Bay Times Florida education news: Budgets, school threats, right-wing donors and moretampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek DIFFERING PRIORITIES: As Florida Board of Education members mostly praise their administration’s 2020-21 legislative budget request, which includes …
Tampa Bay Times Bullet fired through preschool window; no one injured, St. Petersburg police saytampabay.com - By Megan Reeves ST. PETERSBURG ― Police are investigating a bullet that was fired through a window of a preschool classroom at Allendale Methodist Church on Thursday …
Tampa Bay Times Girl, 12, sent school shooting threat via Snapchat, deputies saytampabay.com - By Divya Kumar BRANDON — A 12-year-old Burns Middle School student was arrested Thursday on a felony charge, accused of threatening to conduct a shooting attack at …
Tampa Bay Times Florida Board of Education seeks more money for vouchers, charter schoolstampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek Sure, it’s just a request from an appointed board that has wielded little clout in the halls of the capitol. But the Florida Board of Education this …
Tampa Bay Times Pinellas student, 18, told class he would ‘shoot all them up,' police saytampabay.com - By Megan Reeves ST. PETERSBURG — An 18-year-old Gibbs High School studentwas arrested Wednesday after threatening shoot his classmates, police said. Brandon Gregory …
Tampa Bay Times Gradebook podcast: Teachers are being ‘voluntold’ to do extra? Are schools taking advantage of them?tampabay.com - By Marlene Sokol Teachers have contracts with their school districts for a reason. The agreements detail what their employers can expect of them, and what they're …
Tampa Bay Times Florida education news: School security, book bans, student shots and moretampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek SPENDING: The Florida Board of Education calls on lawmakers to increase funding for school mental health services and armed security in its next …
Tampa Bay Times Pasco’s Cotee River Elementary enters third day without air conditioningtampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek Students at Pasco County’s Cotee River Elementary School are enduring a third day of discomfort as their classrooms have no air conditioning and …
Tampa Bay Times Florida education news: Taxes, community schools, athletic trainers and moretampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek TAXES: The Pinellas County School Board makes plans to ask voters to renew a local property tax increase that supports teacher salaries and classroom …
Tampa Bay Times Early stats show Hillsborough traditional schools losing to charterstampabay.com - By Marlene Sokol The Tampa Bay Times has been paying close attention to enrollment trends in the Hillsborough County Public Schools. Numbers on the first day of school …
Tampa Bay Times Principal changes in Hillsboroughtampabay.com - By Marlene Sokol TAMPA -- Russell Wallace has returned to the rank of principal, chosen Tuesday to lead Kenly Elementary School. He replaces Carissa Spires, 48, who is …
Tampa Bay TimesIcon version of the Flipboard logo Hillsborough Schools to become more community-focusedtampabay.com - By Marlene Sokol TAMPA — Community schools - which provide an array of services to children and families based on specific community needs - could soon become more of …
Tampa Bay Times Florida education news: Teacher pay, student discipline, testing limits and moretampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek POLICY REVIEW: The Hillsborough County School Board plans to discuss weighty issues such as teacher incentive pay and community schooling, but not at …
Tampa Bay Times Benefits, suicide and everything in between: Crist, Bilirakis host meeting on veterans issuestampabay.com - By Ileana Najarro DUNEDIN — Veteran burial benefits can differ depending on whether a veteran dies in a VA hospital or at home. Use of alternative therapies in lieu of …
Tampa Bay TimesIcon version of the Flipboard logo More Hillsborough policies will be discussed on Tuesdaytampabay.com - By Marlene Sokol Hillsborough County School Board members are considering a policy changes that would give higher pay to teachers at high-needs schools. But they do …
Tampa Bay TimesIcon version of the Flipboard logo Pasco County elementary schools need more teacherstampabay.com - Jeffrey S. Solochek Each year, the Pasco County School District aims to have fewer teaching vacancies than the year before.This fall, it fell short.Schools had 102 open …
Tampa Bay TimesIcon version of the Flipboard logo School Boards Association looks to new ideas for 2020 legislative platformtampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek A year ago, with school safety still high on Florida’s list of concerns, the state’s school boards association focused much of its legislative …
Tampa Bay Times Survey finds nationwide echo of discipline concerns among Pinellas teacherstampabay.com - By Megan Reeves Teachers elsewhere are struggling with student discipline in the same ways as educators in Pinellas County, a recent national survey found. Conducted …
Tampa Bay Times Florida education news: Funding, kindergarten readiness, high school football and moretampabay.com - By Jeffrey S. Solochek PER-STUDENT SPENDING: For the first time, the Florida Department of Education breaks down per-student spending by school instead of just by district. …
Tampa Bay Times ICYMI: Florida education news in review, week ending Aug. 16, 2019tampabay.com - Jeffrey S. Solochek It's been a busy week in Florida education news. In addition to students returning back to school, we've seen a State Board of Education seeking to …
Tampa Bay Times Eakins: Spoto High scandal does not reflect on other Hillsborough schoolstampabay.com - By Marlene Sokol TAMPA — Responding to reports of staff misconduct at Spoto High, Hillsborough County school superintendent Jeff Eakins said Friday he expects campus …
