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The release comes as new data reveals just 53 percent of Florida's third-graders passed the state’s reading test.
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Researchers say the billions in pandemic funding available for ventilation upgrades in U.S. schools provides a once-in-a-generation opportunity to combat COVID-19, as well as making air more breathable for students living with allergies, asthma, and chronic wildfire smoke.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Tuesday that requires training school officers to better deal with "students with emotional disturbance or mental illness" and addresses rules on emergency drills.
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About 35,000 U.S. children entered kindergarten for the 2020-21 school year without evidence they were vaccinated for extremely contagious diseases, the CDC reports.
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Advocates say families in Florida and across the nation are already struggling with rising food costs, and if these waivers expire in June, things will only get harder.
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The law requires 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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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 school board will be asking voters to once again pay more in taxes to fund what they say are critical services, mental health support and school security staff.
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Districts that defied a mask mandate ban would get a smaller funding increase under the budget proposal.