Runcie's job on line: The Broward County School Board will consider firing Superintendent Robert Runcie at its meeting Tuesday. Board member Lori Alhadeff, whose daughter Alyssa died in the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, requested the item to be added to the agenda. She cited his "many failures of leadership," specifically his handling of the tragedy and the district's slow progress in carrying out the $800 million bond program for schools approved by voters in 2014.  “The urgency to do this now is because the district is spiraling out of control," Alhadeff said. Five of the nine board members have publicly expressed support for Runcie in the past few weeks. “As board members, we need to be accountable to the public," Alhadeff said. "I am bringing it forward regardless if I have five votes or not.” Sun Sentinel. WPLG.

Hope Scholarships: Pasco County school officials are considering testing the state's Hope Scholarship law by requiring that bullying reports from students be verified by the district before students are awarded a scholarship. Legislators and Department of Education officials say the law requires the complaining student be awarded a scholarship out of the school and, possibly, into a private school regardless of proof. But Pasco officials say the definition of bullying includes substantiation of the complaint, and a board attorney is doing further research. Gradebook. (more…)