Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell is asking the Alachua County School Board to pay 45 percent of the costs for the School Resource Officer Program, totaling $1.1 million. Darnell said the school board will recoup the costs from the state's Guard Program.
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Hawthorne was one of more than 80 schools across the state to receive an "I" for incomplete.
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Fifty-two years later, Hawthorne is facing a possible closure yet again.
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The city’s programs, found at Santa Fe College and the University of Florida, are a facet of an increasing trend in Florida.
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On Thursday, Hawthorne Middle High School held a district rezoning workshop in case the school does not receive a passing grade and the students at Hawthorne have to go to another school starting in the 2018-2019 school year.
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More than 100 students who were on campus during last week’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead arrived to Tallahassee Tuesday night.
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Lake Forest Elementary's grade went to a C from five years of F's once Karla Hutchinson started working at the school.
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A new education bill passed in July put time constraints on consistent D- and F-rated public schools to raise their letter grades, close, or convert to charter schools, leaving Metcalfe Elementary School with three years to make significant changes.
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As Florida students return to universities and state colleges this month for a new academic year, many will benefit from a major expansion of need-based financial aid.
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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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