Recently the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) released school grades for the 2022-23 school year. As a part of Florida’s first-in-the-nation transition to using progress monitoring instead of traditional high stakes testing, grades for the 2022-2023 school year serve as a baseline and carry no negative consequences. Using this baseline, schools and districts can work toward improved performance in future years.
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Florida A&M University has announced attorney Iris A. Elijah as deputy general counsel. Elijah, who previously worked as an assistant general counsel in the FAMU General Counsel’s Office nearly a decade ago, returned in November.
The revision includes more material on topics including the Tulsa Race Massacre, Black culture’s influence on film and sports, and discriminatory practices related to housing, known as redlining. The new framework will be used when the course officially launches next academic year.
Shaneisha “Shay” Myrthil and Torree Mears will graduate in May 2024 from Bethune-Cookman University with degrees in mass communication. They both aspire to be journalists.
Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo and two key lieutenants on Thursday rolled out a plan aimed at expanding access to health care, with a focus on increasing the number of doctors, encouraging technological innovation and boosting medical screenings.
Seaman Sebastian Mojica, a native of Weston, Florida, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center, the largest diving facility in the world.
The annals of school curriculums have vanquished another stout hero into the shadows of obscurity. This time it was the double edge blade of “Intersectionality” that prevented Ida B. Wells from her proper helm in our school books. She was not just a woman, but carried a second cross of being a Black Woman.
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department is again partnering with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and will begin a comprehensive traffic safety and crash prevention campaign. This campaign will run from December 2023 to May 2024.
Barbara Petersen has long been a champion for Floridians’ access to public records from their government. Now the executive director of the Florida Center for Government Accountability, Petersen chats with Dara this week about how her team of investigative journalists uncovered records related to an accusation of sexual assault against the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, her fears about the future of “Government in the Sunshine” and much more.
The Senate Transportation Committee on Wednesday backed a proposal (SB 28) that would require electric-vehicle owners to pay $200 registration fees to try to offset anticipated losses in gas-tax dollars as more people convert to electric and hybrid vehicles.