Florida roundup: Charter schools, turnarounds, discipline and more

07/23/15
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Travis Pillow

florida-roundup-logoCharter schools. School Finance 101 zooms in on Florida while analyzing who runs charter schools around the country.

Summer. Pasco schools hand out meals and books to children in need. Tampa Bay Times.

Facilities. Palm Beach schools might pursue a tax referendum for needed revenue. Sun Sentinel.

Turnaround. Jacksonville school turnaround plans take time. Florida Times-Union.

Discipline. South Florida school leaders head to a White House summit. StateImpact.

School boards. More apply to fill a vacant Manatee school board seat, but it's not clear when Gov. Rick Scott will appoint someone. Bradenton Herald.

Administration. A Palm Beach principal accused of plagiarism will be removed from his position. Palm Beach Post. Sun-Sentinel. Manatee reshuffles some administrators. Bradenton Herald.

Danger. A former Palm Beach principal is run off the road and threatened by a former school employee. Sun-Sentinel.

About Travis Pillow

Travis Pillow is senior director of thought leadership and growth at Step Up For Students. He lives in Sanford, Florida, 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.
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