Duval County Public Schools will have a new, permanent, superintendent by January. The Duval County School Board briefly considered delaying the search to coincide with the end of the academic year in an attempt to attract more candidates. However, the consensus among them on Tuesday was to move forward.
A new Florida law requires a parent’s permission for students to use alternative names and pronouns. In some districts, that includes standard nicknames.
As school starts this week in Northeast Florida, Nikole Hannah-Jones says students are getting a whitewashed version of African American history.
The Duval superintendent’s tenure ends amid criticism from both the political left and right, but she also won bipartisan support for her accomplishments.
Duval Schools says media specialists have reviewed about 2,000 of the 1.6 million titles in the district.
With a Jan. 1 deadline looming, a state Department of Education workgroup is crafting a training that all school-library workers must use in selecting books and other materials. But tension has simmered because some members of the panel don’t believe its recommendations go far enough. The group, which includes parents and school media specialists, was formed to carry out part