Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 5.3.21
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The Seminole Tribe of Florida is out with a new 60-second ad, aiming to rally support for a new gaming Compact with the state. The ad drops around two weeks before a Special Legislative Session will convene to finalize that agreement.
The new minute long-spot, titled “
The Seminole Story,” highlights existing economic benefits from the current gaming structure and argues the new compact will expand those benefits.
“Amid a storm of challenge and loss, this Florida story gave rise to hope and our spirit to persevere,” the ad’s narrator begins.
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Florida schools get more time for spring tests due to coronavirus concerns
Parents, school officials have raised questions about adequate spacing, time to administer the annual exams.
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Ninth-graders at Land O Lakes High School wait to get startedon the writing part of the Florida Standards Assessments in 2015. In 2021, the state has will require in-person testing despite the pandemic, and has offered schools more time to administer the exams so students don t have to sit this close together. [ Pasco County Schools ]
Updated Feb. 15
Facing mounting concerns about the safety of in-person testing, the Florida Department of Education on Monday announced it would give schools two extra weeks this spring to conduct the Florida Standards Assessments.
TALLAHASSEE Sunday marks the three-year anniversary of Florida’s worst school shooting, a tragic milestone for families of the 17 murder victims and countless traumatized survivors.
The horrific event at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland sparked the March For Our Lives movement, a nationwide gun-control effort launched by the school’s students and joined by hundreds of thousands of other teens, parents and supporters.
Florida lawmakers, who were in the midst of the 2018 legislative session when Nikolas Cruz unleashed a volley of bullets at his former school in Broward County, took the rare step of enacting some gun-control measures in response to the shooting.
Feb. 14, 2021, marks the three-year anniversary of the Parkland school shootings.
Sunday will mark the three-year anniversary of Florida’s worst school shooting, a tragic milestone for families of the 17 murder victims and countless traumatized survivors.
The horrific event at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland sparked the March For Our Lives movement, a nationwide gun-control effort launched by the school’s students and joined by hundreds of thousands of other teens, parents and supporters.
Florida lawmakers, who were in the midst of the 2018 legislative session when Nikolas Cruz unleashed a volley of bullets at his former school in Broward County, took the rare step of enacting some gun-control measures in response to the shooting.