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Now founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University in Washington, he visited Gainesville to promote his latest book “How to Be an Antiracist.”
Read More »Ibram X. Kendi Returns to Gainesville
African, African American History Now Taught In All Alachua County Public High Schools
Santa Fe High School is the last in the district to add the classes. The courses are part of Alachua County Public Schools’ initiative to increase racial equity and education in the classroom.
Read More »Plan Proposed For Abandoned Building To Become ‘Hip, Trendy, Cool’ Plaza And Condominiums
Located at 2002 NW 13th St. – a few blocks north of Gainesville High School, the 4-story building once housed office facilities.
Read More »‘Out of the Blue’: Gainesville High School Band Receives Anonymous $100,000 Donation
At first, they thought it was a scam. Someone from a wealth management firm in St. Petersburg had left a voicemail in May for the director of Gainesville High School Band and Guard.
Read More »Gainesville’s Cost For School Resource Officers To Increase
The Gainesville City Commission voted on Thursday to approve an agreement between the School Board of Alachua County and the Gainesville Police Department.
Read More »Gainesville City Commission To Discuss Affordable Housing Recommendations
A Gainesville City Commission subcommittee led by Commissioner David Arreola has been discussing rental housing regulations since December.
Read More »Most K-12 Schools Don’t Teach It, But These Gainesville Students Are Learning to Code
A group of Gainesville pupils ages 9 to 11 take on a coding assignment that uses Scratch, an introductory program created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Read More »Untold Florida: The Man Behind The Marching Band
Arjuna Myles spends weeks every summer at band camp. But he's no high school student or band director. He’s a drill designer; he directs hundreds of high school students scampering in intricate patterns across football and practice fields around North Central Florida, like ants under a microscope.
Read More »Half-Cent Sales Tax Brings Improvements And New Elementary School To Gainesville
Southwest Gainesville will get a new elementary school, and every school in the county will receive money for improvements from the half-cent sales tax Alachua County voters approved in November.
Read More »Gainesville High Students Use 5K Run To Raise $4K For Hurricane Michael Victims
As 130 participants prepared to run a 5K Sunday morning in support of hurricane relief, the rain poured down as if to remind them of the wind and rain that ravaged the Florida Panhandle in October.
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