Florida education news: Union talks, lawsuits and opinions on pre-k and college tuition
WIGGLE ROOM: The Hernando teacher’s union makes counteroffers in contract talks with the school district but the two sides fall short of a deal.
CHARTER BACKERS: The proposed the Classical Preparatory School in Land O’Lakes has a couple of well-connected supporters.
THE LAST BELL: Berean Christian Academy in Tampa
closes its doors after 11 years.
DON’T SCRIMP ON THE LITTLE ONES: Cutting funding for Florida’s voluntary prekindergarten program
is shortsighted, the
Times editorializes.
STICK AROUND: The Miami-Dade School Board
votes unanimously to extend superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s contract through 2015, the
Miami Herald reports.
COLLEGE SUIT: Four former Bethune-Cookman University
are suing the school, claiming they were let go because they confronted the president with a host of problems including embezzlement, the
Orlando Sentinel reports.
DISTRICT SUIT: A circuit judge
rejects a request by the Collier County School Board to dismiss a lawsuit by the ACLU of Florida alleging the school district failed to comply with its repeated requests for public records about 10 middle school students who held a “Kick-a-Jew Day” in 2009, the
Naples Daily News reports.
BLEAK OUTLOOK: Three struggling Duval County high schools
might soon be turned over to a management organization, the
Florida Times-Union reports.
GEDS BEHIND BARS: GED classes for inmates in Volusia County
are likely to end due to changes to state law, the
Daytona Beach News-Journal reports.
BAD CALL: Voting to raise University of Florida’s tuition is wrong, a student says
in this guest column in the
Independent Florida Alligator.
WHERE’S JEB?: Fresh off a visit to Idaho, Former Gov. Jeb Bush
heads to Michigan, where he testifies about Florida's education experience before a joint House-Senate Education Committee in Lansing, the
Detroit News reports.
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