Education

The Florida Legislature is in session and Tuesday Cafe looks at the wide-ranging topic of education in Florida.

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Many Florida families still have not received private school vouchers promised to them after House Bill 1 was signed into law last year.

The bill removes a requirement that high-school students pass the state’s tenth-grade English-language arts exams in order to graduate.

A federal judge says a First Amendment challenge can proceed against the Escambia County School Board on access to school library books.

An emergency order would help Jewish students from other states transfer to Florida universities if they fear anti-Semitism.

The school deregulation bills would cut “red tape” on things like testing and accountability, financial requirements and personnel decisions.

Florida’s 2024 legislative session opens on Jan. 9, with big topics (free speech, the budget, insurance, healthcare and others) and has to tackle them, and more, before session is scheduled to wrap on March 8....

In part, the bill would prevent schools from taking “adverse actions” against organizations & students based on the organizations being single-sex.

Florida attorneys said Ray Rodrigues’ memorandum is “not enforceable, and the Board (of Governors) cannot deactivate student groups.”

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20.9 percent of students in Florida public schools missed 21 or more school days during the 2021-2022 academic year.