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Contract bargaining between the Hillsborough County School District and the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022.
Hillsborough teachers get a win in their months-long dispute over pay
A magistrate rules in their favor, saying teachers should be rewarded after they “stepped up in years’ past” to help the district.
DeSantis would get this nearly unprecedented new power under Florida bill
Gov. Ron DeSantis would have more authority over the Florida high school sports under a proposed bill in the legislature.
A bill to give the governor authority over Florida high school sports has only one peer: Delaware.
Florida school districts respond to parent book complaints
Hillsborough County Public Schools holds a hearing on the text ‘This Book is Gay’ is seen Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in Tampa.
A roundup of Florida education news from around the state
Florida OKs emergency move allowing TikTok ban at all universities
A new emergency policy by the Florida Board of Governors clears the way for the state to ban TikTok on all public university campuses.
The action could take place “as soon as practicable” at state schools.

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  1. St. Petersburg’s Deveron Gibbons named to FAMU board of trustees
    6 hours ago• Education
    Deveron Gibbons makes a point at a St. Petersburg College board of trustees meeting in 2017 during a discussion about presidential candidates for the school. He was named a trustee of Florida A&M University on Wednesday, March 29, 2023.
  2. Post-tenure review regulation for Florida university professors approved
    Yesterday• Education
    The University of South Florida on March 23, 2023, in Tampa.
  3. Hillsborough teachers get a win in their months-long dispute over pay
    Yesterday• Education
    Contract bargaining between the Hillsborough County School District and the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022.
  5. DeSantis would get this nearly unprecedented new power under Florida bill
    Yesterday• Politics
    Gov. Ron DeSantis would have more authority over the Florida high school sports under a proposed bill in the legislature.
  6. Florida school districts respond to parent book complaints
    Yesterday• Education
    Hillsborough County Public Schools holds a hearing on the text ‘This Book is Gay’ is seen Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in Tampa.
  7. Florida OKs emergency move allowing TikTok ban at all universities
    Yesterday• Education
    A new emergency policy by the Florida Board of Governors clears the way for the state to ban TikTok on all public university campuses.
  8. DeSantis backs GOP legislator in FAU president search
    Yesterday• Politics
    State Rep. Randy Fine told his Facebook followers on Monday evening that Gov. Ron DeSantis approached him to see if he would be interested in becoming Florida Atlantic University's next president.
  9. USF employee faces firing after her arrest in protest over diversity cuts
    Yesterday• Education
    In this image from a video provided by student protesters, students and campus police officers rush together at the beginning of a clash inside the Patel Center on the University of South Florida's Tampa campus on March 6. The protesters were from the Tampa Bay chapter of Students for a Democratic Society.
  10. ‘This Book Is Gay’ is banned at Hillsborough County middle schools
    Yesterday• Education
    "This Book Is Gay" by Juno Dawson is the subject of a challenge in the Hillsborough County school system. After a parent complained about content in the book, two school district panels approved it. But the school board, in a 4-3 vote Tuesday, has banned the book in middle schools.
  11. Florida joins states offering school vouchers for all
    Yesterday• Education
    Students arrive for the start of the day at Altamonte Christian School in Altamonte Springs, Friday, March 10, 2023. Since 2001, the state has offered tax credit scholarships and vouchers to assist students attending private schools, including religious schools. On Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a measure expanding eligibility for those vouchers.
  12. Florida now has school vouchers for all: 5 things for families to know.
    Mar. 27• Education
    Crowds filter through the rotunda at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, where lawmakers made school vouchers a priority during the 2023 legislative session. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the voucher bill into law Monday at a ceremony in Miami.
  13. DeSantis signs far-reaching school voucher expansion into Florida law
    Mar. 27• Education
    Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at Miami private school shortly before he signed a bill to expand school vouchers in Florida on Monday, March 27, 2023.
  14. Tampa Bay area schools grapple with book, movie challenges
    Mar. 27• Education
    Ruby Bridges Hall signs and autograph for Carla Johnson and her sister Camille. Bridges Hall became famous when she was 6 years old and marched into a New Orleans elementary school to integrate the school. A movie about her story has been removed from a Pinellas County elementary school following a parent's complaint.
  15. Removal of ‘Ruby Bridges’ film from Pinellas school sparks outrage
    Mar. 27• Education
    U.S. deputy marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La., in November 1960. The first-grader was the only Black child enrolled in the school, where parents of white students boycotted the court-ordered integration law and took their children out of school. Her story is told in the 1998 Disney movie "Ruby Bridges."
  16. School district faces calls for investigation as more accuse Tampa teacher of bullying
    Mar. 25• News
    Austen Peffley is speaking out about disturbing comments made by a Wharton High teacher after a Tampa Bay Times investigation into similar complaints.
  17. If only the Michelangelo mess in a Florida school was surprising
    Mar. 24• Opinion
    Michelangelo's "David."
  18. University of Tampa President Ronald Vaughn to retire after nearly 30 years
    Mar. 24• Education
    University of Tampa President Ronald L. Vaughn will retire at the end of the 2023-24 school year.
  19. Florida lawmakers approve voucher expansion, with costs still in question
    Mar. 24• Education
    Sen. Corey Simon, R-Tallahassee, urges senators to support HB 1 expanding Florida's school voucher program during floor debate on March 23, 2023. Simon, the bill sponsor, said his goal is to make sure all children get the education they deserve.
  20. Tampa Bay educators take notice as ‘parental rights’ push moves to high schools
    Mar. 23• Education
    The directive, proposed by Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz, above, and backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, would strengthen the 2022 Parental Rights in Education Act.
  21. Florida Senate OKs private school voucher expansion. Bill heads to DeSantis.
    Mar. 23• Education
    Sen. Tracie Davis, D-Jacksonville, left, asks questions about a bill to expand private school vouchers, addressing bill sponsor Sen. Corey Simon, R-Tallahassee, right. The lawmakers were working on the Senate floor Wednesday.
  22. USF faculty condemns bills to alter Florida higher education: ‘Just baffling’
    Mar. 23• Education
    Students walk near the Marshall Student Center on the University of South Florida's Tampa campus.
  23. Board of Education might exceed Florida law in limiting gender identity lessons
    Mar. 23• Education
    Hillsborough High School students protested the Parental Rights in Education bill in March 2022, saying it would chill discussions and conversations with teachers. The State Board of Education has proposed rules extending into high schools the limitations initially placed on early elementary grades.
  24. Florida again targets faculty tenure at universities. Here’s why that matters.
    Mar. 23• Education
    Students walk across the Tampa campus at the University of South Florida, one of 12 state schools affected by legislation that would make it harder for faculty members to keep their tenure status.
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