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The Alachua County School Board passed a plan to add instructional minutes to school days to accommodate for weather cancellations for the 2018-2019 school year calendar.
Read More »Alachua County School Board Adds Instructional Time To School Days
Buchholz Senior Named A Finalist For National Science Award
A Buchholz High School senior was selected to compete for a prestigious national science award. Sidhika Balachandar is one of the top forty finalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nations’ oldest and perhaps most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors.
Read More »Gainesville High School Student No Longer Enrolled After Offensive Social Media Posts
A Gainesville High School student is no longer enrolled after administrators learned of his racially-charged and threatening social media posts.
Read More »FSU Partially Lifts Greek Life Suspension
Florida State University has partially lifted its suspension on fraternities and sororities, but a ban on alcohol and social functions remains in place.
Read More »Ride The Bus Or Face Suspension? That’s What Some Levy County Students Are Being Told
Students in the Focus program at Bronson Middle/High school say they're being told their parents can no longer drop them off.
Read More »With Half A School Year Left, Will Hawthorne’s Only High School Make the Grade or Close?
Once Hawthorne Middle/High School in May earned a D rating on the state accountability report, school officials chose the option to try one last time to improve its score to a C. Another D or worse, and the school closes.
Read More »After New Principal Steps In, Failing Streak Stops At East Gainesville School
Lake Forest Elementary's grade went to a C from five years of F's once Karla Hutchinson started working at the school.
Read More »Grade Expectations
Every year, state prison officials look at what third-graders score on standardized tests and use the scores to predict future inmate populations. Children who can’t pass are slated for a prison cell – at 8 years old.
Read More »Flagler County Switches From Styrofoam Lunch Trays To Paper Trays
A UF researcher and two Flagler County educators, along with their students, sparked a green initiative to usher in recyclable paper lunch trays into the county’s school cafeterias.
Read More »Alachua County Elementary Schools Need Space And Money
Many of Alachua County's elementary school students are attending class in portables due to overcrowding and rapid growth in the western part of the county.
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