Florida Department of Education

The Florida Department of Education is planning a “listening tour” over the next two weeks for people to provide input on a proposed rule seeking to revise education standards in civics and English-language arts, and to introduce new standards for several areas of instruction.

A yet undisclosed number of Florida teachers payed to get questions and answers after investigators say a Florida couple was selling them.

Governor Ron DeSantis says Florida’s K-12 schools will continue to offer parents the choice of remote or in-person learning through the Spring semester.

DeSantis made the case for quarantining symptomatic students and staff, but avoiding closing entire campuses.

The “Get There” initiative launched by the Department of Education is designed to raise awareness about Career and Technical Education as an alternative to traditional college pathways.

As the new semester opens with a mix of in-person and online schooling, some Leon County students are worried classrooms will become super-spreader opportunities for the coronavirus.

A stay that was applied to Second Circuit Judge Charles Dodson’s ruling that DOE’s order was constitutional was reinstated by the First District Court of Appeal.

Here’s what’s transpired in the case over the last several days and what comes next as more districts prepare to start the 2020-2021 school year:

After winning an initial round in the closely watched legal fight, teachers unions have asked a Leon County circuit judge to lift a stay on his ruling that a state mandate to reopen brick-and-mortar schools is unconstitutional.

An automatic stay has been applied to the case by the First District Court of Appeals.