The all-year-round program works to provide supplies to teachers in Alachua County with the help of a mobile unit. The annual school drive started July 10 and is running until July 22.
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Though state legislators earlier this year passed a law that requires elementary schools to set aside 20 minutes each day for "free-play recess," that mandate doesn't say where recess must take place.
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Twenty-two of Florida's 28 state colleges will receive shares of $30 million in state performance funding under a new rule approved Monday by the Board of Education. Six colleges will not receive any state performance funding.
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The Florida Supreme Court won't take up a case that challenged the right of school districts to hold third-graders back when they score badly on a mandated standardized reading test.
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Two UF alumni filed a class-action lawsuit against the state, saying lawmakers and Gov. Rick Scott funneled money that should have gone to higher education into tax cuts and savings.
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This was the eighth event in Florida for a fairly new program sponsored by the U.S. Attorney's office.
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Alachua County Public Schools and GRU are still working on a comprehensive plan to test water for lead contamination throughout the county's 29 schools. A trial run of the test has been completed at Meadowbrook Elementary, but the results were inconclusive.
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Florida universities will learn this week how well they did on annual performance reviews, entitling them to a share of a record $245 million in state performance funding.
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A mobile food program is bringing free meals to Alachua County students during summer months.
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This is the first time in NPR's 47-year history that it has released a children's program. Co-host Mindy Thomas says, "We want to help spark conversations between kids and other kids and also with their grown-ups that will ultimately lead to their own big discoveries."
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