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The big story: Florida’s “recess moms” are back to lobbying. They wish they didn’t have to be. But a proposal in the state Senate calls for changes to the physical education law that the parents fear would undo their 2017 effort to get 20 minutes of daily recess mandated in public elementary schools. Rather than waiting for the concept to get too far along, the moms are lobbying to kill it .
One by one, members of the Hillsborough County School Board on Thursday praised their interim superintendent, Van Ayres, before voting unanimously to give him the permanent job. Board member Karen Perez said the entire community was “ecstatic” that Ayres, 49 and a district employee since he graduated from the University of Tampa, was being considered for the job. Member Jessica Vaughn told him, .