Even though people are getting vaccinated against COVID-19, CDC guidelines still call for procedures like masks, and some school districts are sticking to those guidelines.
The letter from PCS Revenue Control Systems Inc. offered a year of free credit monitoring after personal information - like social security numbers and birthdays - was accessed in a computer breach.
Kaydee Vancleve and Brianna Mercoglan are training to become mechanics. They are two out of three girls in the program this year. The other 40 are boys.
Teens in sixth through 12th grade can enter short stories and poems. Four winners will be chosen, one form each category between the sixth and eighth grade, and from the ninth to 12th grade.
People for and against a mask policy spoke up at the Alachua County Schook Board Meeting. This tense topic even led to a recess as one woman who refused to wear a mask was escorted out of the meeting.
A proposed Alachua County School policy could give district leaders the ability to enforce a face covering mandate during, “times of elevated communicable disease spread.”
According to Alachua County Public Schools public information officer Jackie Johnson, Tenbieg is being reassigned to a position in student services in the district office.
The fifth grade students at Reddick-Collier Elementary School have gathered together different items including masks, and disinfectants so they can remember and learn from the events that happened in 2020.
An Alachua County Schools principal is now reassigned after an investigation into claims for harassing staff, playing favorites, and payroll discrepancies.
All K-12 employees across Florida are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine but only at specific sites. Those under the age of 50 can only register at a federal vaccination site, while those 50 and older can sign-up at state-run facilities.
An Oak Hall parent is banned from school property and is under investigation, after allegedly engaging in “inappropriate, and potentially illegal, interactions” with two OHS Upper School students.
The COVID-19 vaccine eligibility pool is a little deeper as K-12 employees, law enforcement officers, and firefighters 50 or older, as well as those deemed high risk by a doctor, can now get the shot based on Gov. Ron DeSantis's latest executive order.
For the second year, students at the school are dedicating their jump to 18-year old Max Williams, a former student of the elementary school and son of Erin Williams, a guidance counselor at the school.
Marion County school district leaders are calling it the ‘COVID Slide’-- and no, it’s not the latest internet dance fad. They said students are falling behind in their schoolwork and they are blaming the pandemic.
Florida will extend the standardized testing period in the spring to allow for in-person testing for students who have not yet returned to campus due to COVID-19 concerns, the state’s education commissioner said in a new order.
