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LAKELAND Incoming Polk County Public Schools Superintendent Frederick Heid was on the job Wednesday afternoon as he transitions into the position after the School Board voted 5-1 Tuesday night to approve his contract. School Board member Lynn Wilson did not attend the meeting because he is self-quarantining with COVID-19 symptoms. Kay Fields was the lone dissenting vote. Her opposition, she said, was not against Heid she successfully lobbied her colleagues to vote unanimously for him but that his $255,000 salary is $17,000 more than outgoing Superintendent Jacqueline Byrd’s $238,000 salary. “I believe wholeheartedly in gender equity,” Fields said. “It sends a very poor message in my part of the world to have an incoming male making more than a departing female.” ....
LAKELAND A curious man, donning green shorts, a yellow fishing shirt, white beard and a camouflage hat with a Confederate flag, sat in the front row of Tuesday evening’s Polk County School Board meeting. For those who attend regularly, his was a new face clearly seen because he wasn’t wearing the face mask school district officials require for those entering the building. People sitting six feet away from others, like School Board members do, can take them off once they are seated. This man had pulled his chair over to sit next to a woman he brought with him. ....
Tempers flare over school masks, as vaccine eligibility grows A roundup of Florida education news from around the state. Â Â Nurse practitioner Paula Joseph, of Tampa, draws a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine while providing vaccination shots in April at Iglesia Tampa Bay in Tampa. The Pfizer shots are expected to be made available to children ages 12-15 within days. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ] Updated 1 minute ago Weâre in the home stretch for the school year, and already many people have started focusing on what the summer and fall will look like. Much depends on continued progress away from the coronavirus pandemic. Things are looking up as vaccinations become more available. But people remain at odds as they fight over masks. Read on for that story and more Florida education news. ....