Florida Department of Education holds final public meeting ahead of vote on changing student standards
Some changes to how your child could be educated on certain topics including civics and government, mathematics and language arts. Author: Troy Kless (First Coast News) Published: 6:55 PM EDT June 9, 2021 Updated: 6:58 PM EDT June 9, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The Florida Department of Education will be voting to impose new guidelines on what teachers can teach. At issue, how much teachers can explore the darker side of American history and topics like structural racism.
At Macclenny Elementary School on Wednesday, the Florida Department of Education held its final of three public meetings to discuss the proposed changes.
/PRNewswire/ The Black Economic Development Fund (BEDF), managed by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), has reached its $250 million goal for.
Letters: I-295 needs to be expanded
Letters from readers
I-295 needs to be expanded
I am a business major at Florida State College of Jacksonville. I moved to Jacksonville in August 2020, and one of the first things I noticed is that there is only a two-lane highway that runs around the whole entire city. With Jacksonville being ranked the 12th biggest city in the United States, I think that it’s time that we start to advocate for an expansion of this highway into three or maybe even four lanes over the coming years.
Ever since moving to Jacksonville I travel I-295 daily between the FSCJ north and south campuses. The amount of accidents and close calls my friends and I have seen have given 295 the name “death highway” among ourselves.