FloridaNEXT.com: Student resource for life after high school

| 9/6/2018

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FloridaNEXT.com: Student resource for life after high school

All new for the 2018-2019 school year, this website is full of crucial information for both high school students and their parents. Articles offer information aimed at helping Florida high schoolers get into their preferred college or university, score a scholarship, understand financial aid, train for a career and much more. Some highlights from FloridaNEXT.com:

Tutoring the teachers: School districts work to coach those who struggle on state tests

Department of Education officials say the tests ask for basic knowledge that all teachers should have, regardless of assignment. School district leaders don’t disagree with the sentiment. But they also don’t want to lose strong educators. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]

Securing Florida schools would cost billions

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission on Wednesday that adding security measures such as high-tech video systems, metal detectors and bullet-proof glass at the state's 4,200 public schools would cost more than $2 billion. [Source: AP ]

Expanded UF Online partnership will provide education benefits to more than 80,000 hourly Disney employees nationwide

University of Florida Online is once again partnering with a leading employer – The Walt Disney Company – to expand access to high quality online bachelor’s degrees. Disney Aspire, recently launched by The Walt Disney Company, is a comprehensive education benefits program focused on the career development of Disney’s workforce. [Source: UF News ]

Florida, schools getting $95.8 million for Puerto Rico students

Florida and county school districts are receiving $95.8 million in federal reimbursements to cover costs of taking in thousands of students from Puerto Rico who fled the island for Florida after Hurricane Maria last year. [Source: Florida Politics]

ALSO AROUND FLORIDA:

› Florida Coastal still out of compliance with accreditation standards [ABA Journal]
The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has affirmed its findings that Florida Coastal School of Law is out of compliance with certain accreditation standards—increasing the likelihood that the matter will be settled in court.

› Florida Virtual School goes on the defensive [ELearningInside News]
The Florida Virtual School (FLVS) is currently on the defensive as it battles a series of employee complaints. Although the school is investigating the employee complaints, the specific nature of the complaints has not yet been specified.
» Backstory: Florida Virtual School hires law firm to investigate complaints

› Commentary: Florida must stop chasing away good teachers [Orlando Sentinel]
For a parent, it’s a basic question: Is a professional, well-prepared teacher working with my kids? Increasingly, the answer may be no in Florida’s public schools. Headlines this summer have made clear that we have a shortage of teachers.

› At UF, black students feel a reckoning on race is long overdue [Tampa Bay Times]
It’s been an exhausting few years for black students at the state’s flagship university. More than white nationalist Richard Spencer’s takeover of campus, more than students of color wrangled offstage at last spring’s graduation, black students say what grinds them down is the everyday isolation.

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