Highlands School Board next week will consider limiting any real estate tax hike for next school year to 4.9%. The board is expected to vote on staying under an inflation-based cap assigned each year to each school district in the state. The district’s limit is up from this school year’s
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As the effects of climate change play out worldwide, pediatricians see the evidence in their offices.
There are the children with asthma who experience more frequent attacks as a result of excess heat and longer allergy seasons. And then there are kids who have missed vaccinations or other routine care because more frequent hurricanes or other natural disasters have displaced their families.
Now a new network of pediatricians nationwide is working on a grassroots effort to raise awareness of the effects of climate change on children’s health. Pediatricians participating in the all-volunteer initiative, known as American Academy of Pediatrics’ Chapter Climate Advocates Program, told STAT that the impact is clear, and will become more serious.
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Highlands School District is delaying the release of a resignation agreement with an unidentified employee against whom the school board had brought disciplinary charges.
The school board voted at its Dec. 7 meeting to approve the agreement with an employee identified only by the number 6093. The agreement was retroactively effective to Dec. 1.
The board approved a statement of disciplinary charges against an employee identified by the same number at its Oct. 19 meeting.
The Tribune-Review filed a request under the state’s Right to Know Law on Oct. 20 for the employee’s name, job title or position, length of employment, salary and, if applicable, contract. After invoking a 30-day extension to respond, the district denied the newspaper’s request.
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