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More than two years after the COVID pandemic began, students — and their teachers — are still dealing with impacts. Here are the voices of some teachers, as they describe the challenges they face, in their own words.
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When schools can't find a licensed special education teacher, they hire people who are willing to do the job, but lack the training. It's a practice that concerns some special education experts.
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The bill would require schools to create “individualized seizure action” plans at the request of parents, with the plans providing guidelines for caring for students with epilepsy.
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The lawsuit is one of a series of similar legal fights in Florida and across the country about the decisions of colleges and universities to shut down campuses and move classes online in 2020.
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Kids were already facing a mental health crisis before the pandemic. Closing schools for a year only made it worse, says Rachel Kusher of the Florida School Counselor Association. And reopening hasn’t fixed all the harm.
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The governor says initiatives will include reading coaches, STEM and math acceleration programs, parent mentorship training and mental health resources.
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The programs will equip students for these fields, while their other courses will also prepare them for college.
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Districts that defied a mask mandate ban would get a smaller funding increase under the budget proposal.
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Bill sponsor Rep. Randy Fine says the reduction is only about 1% of the overall budget, which means targeted districts won’t get as much of an overall increase as others.
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The proposal would redirect $200 million from 12 school districts — including Hillsborough and Sarasota — to districts that did not require students to wear masks.