April 16, 2024
Nearly a dozen parents spoke to the School Board on Tuesday, but school officials stressed again that no decisions are…
December 13, 2023
New grades set baseline for schools; St. Johns ranks 2nd in Florida
Though the two scores are not apples-to-apples comparisons, all five Northeast Florida school districts earned the same grade they had…
September 12, 2023
Duval School Board hears how parents answered superintendent search survey
Duval County Public Schools will have a new, permanent, superintendent by January. The Duval County School Board briefly considered delaying…
August 16, 2023
William may need a form for his teacher to call him Bill
A new Florida law requires a parent’s permission for students to use alternative names and pronouns. In some districts, that…
August 10, 2023
1619 Project founder denounces Florida’s social studies standards
As school starts this week in Northeast Florida, Nikole Hannah-Jones says students are getting a whitewashed version of African American…
May 23, 2023
Superintendent Diana Greene ends trailblazing Duval career under scrutiny
The Duval superintendent’s tenure ends amid criticism from both the political left and right, but she also won bipartisan support…
February 7, 2023
Most Florida school districts aren’t requiring teachers to hide classroom libraries. Duval is.
Duval Schools says media specialists have reviewed about 2,000 of the 1.6 million titles in the district.…
December 8, 2022
Disagreements surface over the training of public school librarians in Florida
With a Jan. 1 deadline looming, a state Department of Education workgroup is crafting a training that all school-library workers…