Florida roundup: Magnet schools, charter schools, superintendents & more

Magnet schools. Hernando students bid farewell to visitors from China. Tampa Bay Times.

florida-roundup-logoCharter schools. Manatee County charter schools reach an agreement with the school district on transportation costs. Bradenton Herald. Breakdown here.

Montessori Schools. Bradenton students head to Switzerland for a model UN competition. Bradenton Herald.

Superintendents. The Hernando superintendent’s evaluation becomes contentious. Tampa Bay Times.

Attendance. Pinellas schools look for ways to get kids to come to class. Tampa Tribune.

Kindergarten. Orlando Sentinel columnist Beth Kassab reflects on her daughter’s first year of school.

Entrepreneurship. Duval students plan a food truck specializing in healthy burritos. Florida Times-Union. Collier students pitch competing business proposals. Naples Daily News.

Contracts. The Hillsborough school district has a $1.5 million relationship with the state fair. Tampa Bay Times.

Employment. Pasco schools expect job vacancies. Gradebook.

Employee conduct. A Marion schools employee is accused of pawning district property. Ocala Star-Banner.


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BY Travis Pillow

Travis Pillow is Director of Thought Leadership at Step Up For Students and editor of NextSteps. He lives in Sanford, Fla. with his wife and two children. A former Tallahassee statehouse reporter, he most recently worked at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a research organization at Arizona State University, where he studied community-led learning innovation and school systems' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. He can be reached at tpillow (at) sufs.org.