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A Gainesville High School student is no longer enrolled after administrators learned of his racially-charged and threatening social media posts.
Read More »Gainesville High School Student No Longer Enrolled After Offensive Social Media Posts
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 »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.
Read More »Alachua County Schools And GRU Still Developing Water Testing Protocol For Lead Contamination
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.
Read More »School Board Explores Options For Empty Waldo School Building
Residents and town officials presented possible uses for the empty Waldo Community School building, which closed after the 2014-2015 school year, to the Alachua County School Board Tuesday evening.
Read More »Alachua County School Board Might Change The District’s Dress Code
The board will vote on June 21, and a first reading of the changes is scheduled for Tuesday night at 6 p.m.
Read More »Confederate Flags Fly Above Two Gainesville High Schools
Described as “an act of vandalism,” the American and Florida flags were removed overnight and replaced with the Confederate Battle flags at two of Gaineville’s high schools. The flags, discovered this morning at Buchholz and Gainesville high schools, were quickly removed once the school day started. Alachua County schools spokeswoman …
Read More »Alachua County Holds Second Public Forum In School Superintendent Search
Alachua County Public Schools district hosts a series of public forum to address concerns in the search for a new superintendent.
Read More »Kindergarteners’ parents invited to preview schools at Round-Up
Parents of children who will be entering kindergarten in Alachua County this fall are invited to tour schools and meet staff at the Kindergarten Round-Up Wednesday.
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