It is National School Psychology Week and districts across the nation are highlighting the important work of counselors and advocates. School psychologists are trained in a variety of skills like special education evaluations, identifying learning needs helping teachers with classroom management plans, and providing counseling to struggling students.
On Sunday, the Wakulla County School District and the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Department were made aware of a threat against the school district posted on social media, according to the Wakulla School Board.
New Student Body President Carrington Whigham is excited to get to work at FAMU, adding to her family's long legacy of contribution to the school and the community.
The First District Court of Appeal agreed to hear a case brought by parents against the state’s school mask mandate ban on an expedited basis Thursday.
The judge now must decide whether the Department of Health overstepped its bounds when creating its emergency rules on mask mandates and student quarantine protocols.
A boost for small businesses is coming in the Capital City. FAMU is launching a new program to help women and minority entrepreneurs step out on the right path.
Meet Latasha Jones: a third-grade science and math teacher at Astoria Park Elementary School in Tallahassee. She’s worked there since 2018, passionately educating her students and showing them the wonders of STEM.
In a letter Friday afternoon, Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran told Leon County Schools it is still not in compliance with state law, despite the addition of a parental opt-out option on masks.
LCS told the board in a letter sent Thursday the medical opt-outs will expire on Monday, Oct. 18, and parents and guardians will have “sole discretion” in deciding whether kindergarten through 12th-grade students wear masks at schools.
“An investigation is ongoing regarding the Superintendent’s professional actions,” attorney Angela Ball said. “The nature of such investigation is presently privileged and confidential."
Teeing off for title one schools. Today golfers hit the links for the Big Bend Minority Chambers annual golf tournament. Groups of golfers each represented a local title one school competing to earn the school extra money in a long-drive competition.
Members of the Leon County Schools district board are losing thousands of dollars after a vote by the state board of education to sanction LCS for not complying with the law.
The Foundation for Leon County Schools is working to fill the “homework gap,” providing a new academic coach to help kids and their families with digital learning.
The agenda for Thursday’s board meeting includes “Consideration of Probable Cause for Noncompliance with Department of Health Emergency Rule 64DER21-15, Protocols for Controlling COVID-19 in School Settings.”
The district made the changes after the Department of Health implemented a new rule that conflicts with LCS’s kindergarten through eighth-grade mask mandate.
New guidelines from the Florida Department of Health say students are not required to quarantine if they are asymptomatic after being exposed to COVID-19.
As a part of their Veterans Success Center, TCC has unveiled a brand new lounge area for their veteran students, Giving them their own place to wind down and bond.
The new rule says schools “shall allow parents or legal guardians the authority to choose how their child receives education after having direct contact with an individual that is positive for COVID-19.”
Governor Ron DeSantis announced at a press conference on Tuesday that the state will completely eliminate standardized testing, starting in the 2022 school year.
As the school year enters its second month, parents in Thomas County have expressed concerns that school district officials have been sweeping COVID-19 related issues under the rug.
Florida A&M University announced earlier today that it will become a community center for Coding and Creativity, as a part of Apple’s Community Education Initiative and Tennessee State University’s HBCU C2 program.
We talk to an FSU Medical School professor and pediatrician to get answers on the facts behind wearing a mask to limit the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of FSU law student Harrison Broer, is one of numerous similar cases filed against colleges and universities in Florida and other states.
Superintendent Rocky Hanna cited nearly 250 COVID cases and more than 900 students in quarantine in re-instating a mask mandate — and dropping a parental opt-out — for students in grades K-8.
For the first time, Florida’s Board of Education has decided two Florida school districts are violating the state’s executive order banning mask mandates.
DeSantis' press secretary says the health and education emergency rules will not prohibit masks in schools; however, they will require parents to have the right to opt their children out from any mask mandates.
Thomasville City Schools held a School Board meeting Wednesday night to discuss business plans they won’t be able to discuss in their upcoming monthly meeting.
The school systems are helping parents save money, and a trip to the store, by supplying the basic school supplies that most students will be needing this year.
The Valdosta Board of Education adopted an updated Return to School policy for the 2021-2022 school year that requires everyone on school campuses and on buses to wear masks.
Tallahassee Community College announced in a press release Monday that it will be holding its first in-person fall commencement ceremony for graduates.
TCAC points out the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that everyone in a school setting, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, should wear masks.
