The school's students, nearly all Black, earned the highest learning gains in the district and outperformed the county's white students on the state assessment.
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With District 5 board member Rob Hyatt announcing that he won’t run for the seat he's held since 2014, that district is guaranteed to have a new member elected later this month in either Kay Abbitt or Prescott Cowles.
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Members of the Richard E. Parker Alumni Band invited the community to protest at the next school board meeting. It’s the latest step in a story that has been unfolding for 52 years.
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Changes in federal guidelines mean that students at 17 Alachua County schools will not be guaranteed free or reduced-priced meals unless they apply this school year.
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The voter registration and party affiliation change deadline for the primary is July 25.
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Though the motion’s proponent Gunnar Paulson argued the renovations could end up saving the district money, the pressing needs of other schools, especially Hawthorne Middle/High, caused other board members to say it was not the right time for the project.
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The story of this high school band reflects a much larger history of who the school system serves, and how the consequences of old decisions still ripple through the community decades later.
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Fareed Johnson’s life experiences don’t resemble those of people typically chosen to lead civilian police advisory boards across the country.
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The Equal Justice Initiative and the ACCRP are partnering to provide students with a racial justice essay scholarship contest.
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