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USF officials announced Wednesday that fall classes will start in-person, then move online again after students and faculty travel for Thanksgiving break. [URSO, CHRIS | Times (2019)]
USF classes will return to campus in August, go back online after Thanksgiving break
To prevent the spread of COVID-19, the last week of classes and final exams will be online after the holiday, when many students and faculty will likely travel.
3 hours ago• Education
More appointments and promotions in the Hillsborough schools
Hillsborough County superintendent of schools Addison Davis [Times (2020)]
4 hours ago• Education
Former St. Pete council member Karl Nurse announces School Board run
Karl Nurse, who spent 10 years on the St. Petersburg City Council, announced this week he is running for the Pinellas County School Board. [Times (2013)]
The District 7 race also includes educators Caprice Edmond and Sharon D. Jackson.
4 hours ago• Education
In-person ACT testing still set at schools in June
Several schools will allow students on campus in mid-June to take the ACT test, which has not been available since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
‘Very strict distancing’ will be part of the process.
Yesterday• Gradebook

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  1. Pasco band kids create a virtual ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ for graduation
    1 hour ago• Education
    Students from several Pasco County high schools performed "Pomp and Circumstance" from home for the district's several virtual graduation ceremonies. [Pasco County Schools]
  2. USF classes will return to campus in August, go back online after Thanksgiving break
    3 hours ago• Education
    USF officials announced Wednesday that fall classes will start in-person, then move online again after students and faculty travel for Thanksgiving break. [URSO, CHRIS | Times (2019)]
  3. Former St. Pete council member Karl Nurse announces School Board run
    4 hours ago• Education
    Karl Nurse, who spent 10 years on the St. Petersburg City Council, announced this week he is running for the Pinellas County School Board. [Times (2013)]
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  5. More appointments and promotions in the Hillsborough schools
    4 hours ago• Education
    Hillsborough County superintendent of schools Addison Davis [Times (2020)]
  6. Class of 2020: These students set the bar in area schools
    5 hours ago• Education
    In a time before social distancing, these graduates at Tampa's Carrollwood Day School stood together and threw their caps in celebration. The world is counting on a return to those days. [Times (2013)]
  7. Meet Pasco County’s valedictorians and salutatorians for 2020
    5 hours ago• Gradebook
    This is the way it used to look when students lined up for graduation at Pasco High, before social distancing. For now, Pasco schools are holding virtual graduations, but officials say they want to hold in-person graduations in August if conditions regarding the coronavirus allow it. [Times (2006)]
  8. Pinellas private schools salute their top students
    5 hours ago• Education
    Madison Hickey, along with 137 other seniors from Clearwater Central Catholic High, participated in a social distancing graduation on Sunday. [LUIS SANTANA | Times]
  9. Pride of Pinellas: They made their mark in the county’s public schools.
    5 hours ago• Education
    The Gibbs High Class of 2018 celebrated after graduation ceremonies at Tropicana Field, where the Pinellas County school system typically holds most of its graduations. In this most atypical of school years, district officials say they are discussing the possibility of in-person ceremonies at the indoor stadium this summer, providing conditions with the coronavirus allow it. [MARTHA ASENCIO RHINE | Times (2018)]
  10. They rose to academic heights at Hillsborough private schools
    5 hours ago• Education
    Parents, family and friends observe social distancing guidelines while attending the senior graduation car parade May 1 at Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa. [DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times]
  11. Hillsborough’s best: your 2020 valedictorians and salutatorians for public schools
    6 hours ago• Education
    This time last year, graduates from Durant High received their diplomas at the Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall in Tampa. Hillsborough County school officials have reserved the facility for July with the hope of having in-person ceremonies, if conditions with the coronavirus allow it. [LUIS SANTANA | Times (2019)]
  12. In-person ACT testing still set at schools in June
    Yesterday• Gradebook
    Several schools will allow students on campus in mid-June to take the ACT test, which has not been available since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
  13. Return your books, empty your locker, and don’t forget the mask
    Yesterday• Gradebook
    "I just feel emotionally numb," says Anna Nelson, 18, as she cleans out her locker at Sunlake High School Tuesday. [JOHN PENDYGRAFT | Times]
  14. Students return, if only for a moment, to clean out their lockers
    Yesterday• Pasco
    Sunlake High School senior Anna Nelson, 18, returns textbooks after cleaning out her locker Tuesday. Students hadn't been inside the school since spring break in March because of COVID-19. [JOHN PENDYGRAFT | Times]
  15. Getting special education needs met remotely isn’t always easy
    Yesterday• Gradebook
    Peyton Bouret and her stepmother, Tina Lawrence Bouret, on a ZOOM call after Peyton's last speech therapy session at Woodmont Charter School. [MARLENE SOKOL | Times]
  16. Pasco schools adopt rules for students’ final grades
    May 25• Pasco
    A Pasco County report card [Pasco County Schools]
  17. Child’s new normal: speech therapy through a computer screen
    May 25• Gradebook
    Like many students, Peyton Bouret, a 7-year-old student at Woodmont Charter School in Temple Terrace, is trying to adapt to distance learning. She is one of more than 400,000 students in Florida with diagnosed disabilities. [Courtesy of Tina Lawrence-Bouret]
  18. NASA astronauts go back to the future with capsule launch
    May 25• Nation & World
    This illustration made available by SpaceX depicts the company's Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket during the uncrewed In-Flight Abort Test for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. (SpaceX via AP) [SpaceX via AP]
  19. New principals appointed for two Pasco schools
    May 22• Pasco
    Colleen Wilkinson and Amy Haskedakes are newly appointed Pasco County principals. [Pasco County school district]
  20. What’s a principal to do when no one shows for his online staff meeting?
    May 22• Gradebook
    Retired principal for Morgan Fitzgerald Middle School, Teresa Anderson, points to Pinellas Secondary principal Darren Hammond during a surprise caravan in his honor due to his upcoming retirement at the end of June, on Thursday, May 21, 2020 in St. Petersburg. [MARTHA ASENCIO RHINE | Times]
  21. Florida canceled student exams this spring. Is testing on its way out?
    May 22• Education
    The screen students see when they log in to take the Florida Standards Assessments. The exams were canceled for spring 2020, prompting some to suggest they might not be needed at all.
  22. A Tampa Bay woman is planning a prom for over 2,000 students. Will it happen?
    May 21• Health
    Young people enjoy a graduation ball. One woman is trying to give Hillsborough high school students the prom memories they missed. [DMITRY FEOKTISTOV | ZUMAPRESS.com]
  23. After 37 years, a caravan of love for Pinellas principal Darren Hammond
    May 21• Gradebook
    Darren Hammond, the long-time principal of Pinellas Secondary School, smiles Thursday during a surprise caravan in his honor as he prepares to retire amid the coronavirus pandemic. [MARTHA ASENCIO RHINE | Times]
  24. State abruptly ends teacher test fee waiver two months early
    May 21• Gradebook
    Classroom teachers received a 120-day waiver of fees to renew their credentials this year. The state ended the offer about two months early. [DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times]
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