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TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Department of Education has awarded $44 million in federal Unified School Improvement Grant (UniSIG) funds to support 149 struggling schools in 29 districts. In Alachua County, schools receiving funding are Caring & Sharing Learning School, Idylwild Elementary School, Joseph Williams Elementary School and Lake Forest Elementary School.
“It can be hard for struggling schools to recruit and retain top talent, and today I’m proud to announce $44 million to address this problem,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “I have consistently said that the number one way to create great opportunities for our students is by ensuring they have great teachers. In Florida, we will continue to take a strategic, data-driven approach to make our schools the best in the country.”
Florida s lowest-performing schools to receive $44 million improvement grant
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Helping boys become men
A local mentoring program for boys is celebrating the graduation of one its first members from college.
Miles Sullivan, 21, a former member of the Manhood Youth Development Foundation s Project Manhood 2015 program, graduated from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee in April with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business.
Sullivan, a Buchholz High School graduate who was in the finance program while a dual enrollment student at Santa Fe College, said his stepfather, Curtis Peterson, encouraged him to join Project Manhood.
“I encouraged Miles to join because it would expose him to a variety of activities that would assist him in his transition to becoming a man,” said Peterson, a treasurer of the Manhood Youth Development Foundation. “He would be around other young men dealing with the same issues and they would be able to share the experiences while growing together.”