Updated: 1:08 PM EST Jan 19, 2021
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Show Transcript LIVE NOW IN TAVARE HADAS, WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS? HADAS: THOSE EMPLOYEES GETTING THE VACCINE HAVE TO BE 65 OLDER, AS REQUIRED BY THE STATE. SOME OF OUR OTHER COUNTIES ARE ABOUT TO START THIS PROCESS, TOO. SEMINOLE COUNTY WILL GIVE FIRST DOSES TOMORROW. THE DISTRICT TOLD ME LAST WEEK, THEY H ABOUT 319 TEACHERS ELIGIBLE, AND ALL THOSE WHO MADE AN APPOINTMENT WOULD RECEIVE THE PFIZER VACCINE, AT LYMAN HIGH SCHOOL. ORANGE COUNTY SHARED LAST WEEK THAT THEY HAVE SET JANUARY 24 AS THEIR LAST WE HEARD, THEY HAD NOT SET A DISTRIBUTION SITE JUST YET. COUNTY OFFICIALS SAY ABOUT EIGHT 800 EMPLOYEES WOULD BE ELIGIBLE. AS FOR LAKE COUNTY
East Ridge, Lake Minneola had the district s best grad rates at 98.7%.
Leesburg showed the most improvement.
LEESBURG Eustis High School Principal Tracy Clark and his staff emphasize to students that a diploma is like a paycheck a reward for years of hard work. They’ve been in school since they were in kindergarten, and they came to us as high school students, Clark said. That is our goal for every one of them who steps foot on our campus.
When the Florida Department of Education released graduation rates last week, Lake County Schools learned that a record 91.2% of its seniors earned a diploma during the 2019-20 school year. Led by East Ridge and Lake Minneola at 98.7%, eight of the district s nine schools surpassed the state average of 90%. Eustis was next at 98.1%.
Robb Doss: Lake County, like others, turns blind eye to pedestrian safety for school children
Robb Doss
As pedestrians we’re always in one of two situations: We’re either walking on or along the road or we’re crossing the road, and we hope we can get where we’re going safely.
When it comes to determining whether either of those scenarios is safe for our children as they walk to and from school, school districts look to section 1006.23 of the Florida statutes which says that it’s not hazardous for children to walk on the road unless the traffic volume is at least 180 vehicles per hour in each direction, a total of 360 vehicles per hour. That amounts to 1 vehicle every 10 seconds. Then, the statute says that crossing a road at an intersection controlled by a stop sign or stop light isn’t hazardous for our children unless the traffic volume is at least 4,000 vehicles per hour, an average of more than 1 vehicle per second.