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Chamberlain Chiefs pitcher Lani Trent winds up a pitch during a high school softball game in 2019. The Hillsborough County School District has been reconsidering its approach to mascots that draw from Native American culture. [LUIS SANTANA | Times]
A Florida school district’s move to replace controversial mascots stalls
A roundup of Florida education news from around the state.
Florida schools find no easy answer to bus driver shortage
Schools across Florida and the nation are struggling to find enough bus drivers to get students to school and home again in a timely fashion. Districts have looked to increased pay and changed schedules to address the problem.
A roundup of Florida education news from around the state.
Peek inside the renovated St. Petersburg High School
The front of the newly renovated St. Petersburg High School.
Restoration specialists helped to spruce up the historic building, which is nearly a century old.
Short on bus drivers, Pasco schools propose new start times
The Pasco County school district is considering changing all school start times in January 2022 to help cope with a bus driver shortage. [Jeffrey S. Solochek | Times]
Any changes would take place in January, says superintendent Kurt Browning.

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  1. A Florida school district’s move to replace controversial mascots stalls
    1 hour ago• Education
    Chamberlain Chiefs pitcher Lani Trent winds up a pitch during a high school softball game in 2019. The Hillsborough County School District has been reconsidering its approach to mascots that draw from Native American culture. [LUIS SANTANA | Times]
  2. Baxter-Jenkins is leaving Hillsborough Teachers Union
    Yesterday• Education
    Labor leader Stephanie Baxter-Jenkins (second from left) at a 2018 bargaining session with the Hillsborough County school district. Also shown: Teacher Cherie Miller, former union president Jean Clements and Lindsey Blankenbaker, who now works for the Pinellas Classroom Teachers Association. [MARLENE SOKOL | Times]
  3. Effort to replace Hillsborough school mascots is stalled, parent leader says
    Yesterday• Education
    Chamberlain High School
  5. 2 Florida teachers face charges from entering wrong home, shooting
    Yesterday• Crime
    Two newly hired physical education teachers at a Florida elementary school were arrested after the shooting of a man whose apartment they entered thinking it belonged to someone else following a night of drinking.
  6. Florida school orders students who get COVID vaccine to stay home 30 days
    Yesterday• Health
    Centner Academy’s three-story preschool is located in the Design District, Miami’s upscale luxury shopping mecca.
  7. Florida schools find no easy answer to bus driver shortage
    Yesterday• Education
    Schools across Florida and the nation are struggling to find enough bus drivers to get students to school and home again in a timely fashion. Districts have looked to increased pay and changed schedules to address the problem.
  8. Short on bus drivers, Pasco schools propose new start times
    Yesterday• Education
    The Pasco County school district is considering changing all school start times in January 2022 to help cope with a bus driver shortage. [Jeffrey S. Solochek | Times]
  9. Florida health department calls for permanent school mask mandate ban
    Oct. 18• Education
    Florida health and education department officials continue to seek ways to ban schools from imposing mask mandates without opt-out provisions. Some schools are taking other steps to keep virus spread down, including the use of plastic shields.
  10. Peek inside the renovated St. Petersburg High School
    Oct. 18• History
    The front of the newly renovated St. Petersburg High School.
  11. At USF, a new push to help Latino students feel more at home
    Oct. 18• Education
    At the University of South Florida, two new groups — a task force and a faculty and staff association — will focus on the challenges facing Latino students.
  12. At 3 Pinellas schools, no doors, thin walls make it harder to learn
    Oct. 18• Education
    Fifth-grade science teacher Jessie Tripp, center, visits with students Synncere Kidd, left, and Trevaughn Hill, right, as the children transition between classes on Wednesday, Oct. 13, at Sandy Lane Elementary in Clearwater. Tripp's classroom, at right, lacks a door to separate the hall from the learning space.
  13. ‘Reckless’ words from teacher unions hurt recruiting, Florida leader says
    Oct. 15• Education
    Florida K-12 Chancellor Jacob Oliva, shown speaking to the State Board of Education in 2019, says teachers' messaging that schools aren't safe is 'reckless.'
  14. Nikolas Cruz to plead guilty to Parkland school massacre, attorney says
    Oct. 15• Florida
    Parkland school shooting defendant Nikolas Cruz shown at a hearing in Fort Lauderdale in 2019. A hearing was scheduled for Friday morning in the cases.
  15. Some Florida school board members say they are being threatened, harassed
    Oct. 15• Education
    Attorney General Merrick Garland has instructed federal officials to meet with local law enforcement across the nation to discuss strategies to deal with harassment and threats against school board members. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
  16. Bill would outlaw local mask mandates in Florida
    Oct. 14• Education
    Members of the Florida Senate fill the chamber during the 2020 legislative session. A Senate bill proposed for the 2022 session would make mask mandates illegal in the state.
  17. Florida’s fight over fines for school mask rules continues
    Oct. 14• Education
    Opponents, left, and supporters of a mask mandate, right, square off outside the Pinellas County school district headquarters before the school board’s regular meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021, in Largo.
  18. Applying for a choice school in Tampa Bay? It’s time to get in gear.
    Oct. 13• Education
    The Center for Innovation & Digital Learning at Gulf Beaches Elementary is one of 81 choice programs offered by Pinellas County Schools for the 2022-23 academic year.
  19. Redistricting politics hits Florida school boards
    Oct. 13• Education
    Pasco County school superintendent Kurt Browning chats with School Board member Alison Crumbley at a board meeting in November 2020. A County Commission plan would draw Crumbley out of her member district.
  20. Pasco commissioners pick new district lines that could cut out a school board member
    Oct. 12• Pasco
    Commissioner Kathryn Starkey's second home will now be in her commission district.
  21. Florida School Boards Association denounces calls to investigate protesters
    Oct. 12• Education
    An unidentified, anti-mask protester was escorted out of a Hillsborough County School Board retreat in May.
  22. Pasco school’s teacher of the year faces disciplinary action
    Oct. 11• Education
    The entrance to Fivay High School, where the teacher of the year is facing a reprimand over accusations he submitted falsified records relating to 10 special education students.
  23. Pasco schools add orchestra to student choice options
    Oct. 11• Education
    In this image from a YouTube video, the Wiregrass Ranch High School Band performs in May. Wiregrass Ranch and John Long Middle School make up one of four new pathways that students interested in orchestra can apply to through Pasco County's choice process.
  24. App designed to save lives not popular with Florida teachers
    Oct. 11• Education
    Broward County school superintendent Vickie Cartwright speaks at a Sept. 28 meeting of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission. The commission's chairperson, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said that only about five people in any given school use a new app designed to target the location of an emergency on campus. Cartwright said efforts are underway to dispel misconceptions about the app.
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