October 27, 2020

View this email in your browser October 27, 2020 FL Governors Office First Lady Casey DeSantis Announces Partnership with T-Mobile Project 10Million to Provide Students Free Internet Access First Lady Casey DeSantis Announces Nearly 1,000 Devices for Children in Foster Care in Florida Tampa Bay Times What will happen to the cemetery found last year on King High’s Tampa campus? Pinellas teachers, support staff overwhelmingly back raise plan The Laker / Lutz News Conference champs Diverging Diamond is behind schedule Send-off honors Pasco Commissioner Mike Wells Lutz native manages hometown Rays to World Series Suncoast News Pasco County Football 'Super 7' Poll Masks Local officials continue mask mandates, urge social distancing - LLN Sarasota County parents sue school board over mask requirement - FOX13 Virtual Should Florida students continue virtual learning next semester? - WKMG Behavior With returning students comes rebounding abuse reports - FL Politics Back to School Lawsuit Court asked to reconsider school reopening fight - NSF Tax Referendums If voters kill school surtax, Brevard Public Schools will suffer - FL Today Okaloosa half-cent sales tax advocates for schools call out opposition - NWDN Answers to your questions about Duval County half-cent sales tax referendum - News4Jax Clay County school leaders push for half-cent tax to upgrade schools - News4Jax SAT Pinellas High School Student Earns Perfect SAT Score - BN9 Employment Florida pandemic-related jobless claims climb 81K in past week - FL Politics 2020 Election Is SD 20 in play? Danny Burgess holds razor-thin lead over Kathy Lewis - FL Politics More than 6.4M votes cast so far in Florida - NSF COVID-19 Florida Counts Statewide & Pasco Turnout - Returned Ballots Updated Daily Government Updates Pasco County SchoolsCOVID-19 (dedicated page) Pasco County  2020 Pasco County Online Citizen Survey (will take about 15 minutes) Link to all State and Local Orders Governors Office  COVID-19 Resource Page (dedicated page) 2020-246 Executive Order re: Emergency Management – COVID 19 – Local Government Public Meetings 2020-244 Executive Order re: Phase 3; Right to Work; Business Certainty; Suspension of Fines Florida Legislature Long-Range Financial Outlook - OEDR FL DOE COVID-19 Update (dedicated page) Re-Opening - DOE Executive Order Executive Order Slides 2021-22 Legislative Budget Request - Summary 2021-22 FEFP Summary Sheet - Proposal 2021-22 DOE Legislative Budget Request - Spreadsheet FL DOHCOVID-19 In Florida (dedicated page) FL DEM COVID-19 FLSERT (dedicated page) Frequently Used Links Florida Governor's Office Florida DOE Florida Senate Florida House of Representatives Florida Channel Pasco Schools Government Relations Tracking Page Copyright © 2020 District School Board of Pasco County, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

October 24-26, 2020

View this email in your browser October 24-26, 2020 Tampa Bay Times We, the Tampa Bay school superintendents, think USF made a huge mistake | Column Coronavirus in Tampa Bay schools: What we’ve learned, and still don’t know New Hillsborough sheriff’s unit offers social services aid to head off arrests Bay News 9 Family Claims Cheerleading Coach Forced Girl to Kneel During National Anthem Suncoast News FOOTBALL: Zephyrhills jumps on River Ridge Mitchell boys, girls swim teams win conference School Safety Campaign FLDJJ: School Threats Campaign - "#ItsNoJoke" Back to School Prospect of Students Heading Back to Brick-and-Mortar Schools Causes Anxiety for Some Parents -  News13 Distance learning for Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten to end in Florida starting next year - WPTV In video classes teachers parse clues to student wellbeing - WTOP Thousands of Florida students lack online learning equipment - Pioneer 10News Hillsborough County teachers, parents 'take it all in stride' as they prep for school changes from budget cuts Teachers Sarasota County school teachers likely to remain highest paid in state under new contract - News-Press Social Emotional Marion school board shelves Sanford Harmony curriculum over gender norm themes - StarBanner Tropics Zeta becomes a hurricane as it nears Yucatan, heading for U.S. - TBT  2020 Election Early vote total nationwide exceeds 2016; GOP chips at Dems’ advantage - AP Bob Graham and Jeb Bush say your vote will count - TBT How Florida’s electorate has changed since the 2016 election - FL Politics COVID-19 Florida Counts Statewide & Pasco Turnout - Returned Ballots Updated Daily Government Updates Pasco County SchoolsCOVID-19 (dedicated page) Pasco County  2020 Pasco County Online Citizen Survey (will take about 15 minutes) Link to all State and Local Orders Governors Office  COVID-19 Resource Page (dedicated page) 2020-246 Executive Order re: Emergency Management – COVID 19 – Local Government Public Meetings 2020-244 Executive Order re: Phase 3; Right to Work; Business Certainty; Suspension of Fines Florida Legislature Long-Range Financial Outlook - OEDR FL DOE COVID-19 Update (dedicated page) Re-Opening - DOE Executive Order Executive Order Slides 2021-22 Legislative Budget Request - Summary 2021-22 FEFP Summary Sheet - Proposal 2021-22 DOE Legislative Budget Request - Spreadsheet FL DOHCOVID-19 In Florida (dedicated page) FL DEM COVID-19 FLSERT (dedicated page) Frequently Used Links Florida Governor's Office Florida DOE Florida Senate Florida House of Representatives Florida Channel Pasco Schools Government Relations Tracking Page Copyright © 2020 District School Board of Pasco County, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

October 23, 2020

View this email in your browser October 23, 2020 FL DOE Weekly Memo - Florida Principal Leadership Standards Revision Committee Nominations; Medicaid Transportation Rates Memo; Spring 2020 ACCESS for English Language Learners (ELLs) and Alternate ACCESS for ELLs State Results, Attach A ; Students with Disabilities Initial Evaluation Timeline: Change in Guidance; Annual Assurances of School Advisory Council Composition and Schoolwide Improvement Plans, Attach A, Attach B FUN! WATCH: Pasco County principals take on TikTok dance challenge - WFLA COVID-19 Europe faces more curfews, restrictions as virus cases swell - AP Schoolchildren seem unlikely to fuel coronavirus surges, scientists say - NYTimes Florida moves past New Jersey in COVID-19 deaths - NSF Ron DeSantis ambivalent on COVID-19 reporting frequency, but demands accuracy - FL Politics At 24 years old, I thought youth protected me from COVID-19. That idea got knocked out of me. - USA Today COVID-19 in Schools Update: More than 10,000 cases of COVID-19 related to FL schools, with university data included - FL Phoenix School Safety Pasco among school districts investing in safety improvements following Parkland shooting - 10News Charters Florida charter school leader targets expansion - Business Observer Teachers Alachua County Education Association Continues To Negotiate For Teacher Fall Hazard Pay - Sun Curriculum Teaching African American history in Central Florida schools - WESH WUSF USF St. Petersburg Officials Discuss Enrollment Issues, College of Ed Cuts Budgets School districts face hard choices amid pandemic-era cuts - AP Tropics Weather system expected to move into Gulf of Mexico, potentially strengthen - TBT Pasco Sports Pasco/Pinellas H.S. Football Picks - Suncoast News 2020 Election More than 4.77 million ballots cast - NSF Lawsuit filed after Fla. High School Senior’s parking pass revoked for displaying “TRUMP” elephant in truck - WCTV Manatee voters approved a tax hike for local schools in 2018. Will they do it again? - Bradenton Herald Analysis: Debate is brief interlude of normalcy in 2020 race - AP COVID-19 Florida Counts Statewide & Pasco Turnout - Returned Ballots Updated Daily Government Updates Pasco County SchoolsCOVID-19 (dedicated page) Pasco County  2020 Pasco County Online Citizen Survey (will take about 15 minutes) Link to all State and Local Orders Governors Office  COVID-19 Resource Page (dedicated page) 2020-246 Executive Order re: Emergency Management – COVID 19 – Local Government Public Meetings 2020-244 Executive Order re: Phase 3; Right to Work; Business Certainty; Suspension of Fines Florida Legislature Long-Range Financial Outlook - OEDR FL DOE COVID-19 Update (dedicated page) Re-Opening - DOE Executive Order Executive Order Slides 2021-22 Legislative Budget Request - Summary 2021-22 FEFP Summary Sheet - Proposal 2021-22 DOE Legislative Budget Request - Spreadsheet FL DOHCOVID-19 In Florida (dedicated page) FL DEM COVID-19 FLSERT (dedicated page) LAUGH! Frequently Used Links Florida Governor's Office Florida DOE Florida Senate Florida House of Representatives Florida Channel Pasco Schools Government Relations Tracking Page Copyright © 2020 District School Board of Pasco County, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

October 22, 2020

View this email in your browser October 22, 2020 Tampa Bay Times Florida schools are slow to spend $693 million in federal coronavirus aid COVID-19 Officials count largest single-day increase in COVID-19 infections since mid-August - FL Politics Trust Index: Does closing a school help slow a COVID-19 outbreak? - News4Jax State raises questions about COVID-19 death data - NSF Florida’s COVID-19 death toll may be skewed; FL Surgeon General to conduct a fatality review - FL Phoenix CDC expands definition of who is a ‘close contact’ of an individual with COVID-19 - WaPost Racial Issues Tampa Bay residents divided on racial issues, survey shows - FL Politics FOX13 St. Petersburg barber cutting away at youth literacy problem Suncoast News Friday Night Preview: River Ridge at Zephyrhills 2020 Election How are your kids being influenced by politics as the election looms? - News4Jax Drop boxes: Florida voters are using them to deliver mail ballots - TBT Iran may be behind ‘spoofed’ emails sent to Florida voters, say federal officials - TBT COVID-19 Florida Counts Statewide & Pasco Turnout - Returned Ballots Updated Daily Government Updates Pasco County SchoolsCOVID-19 (dedicated page) Pasco County  2020 Pasco County Online Citizen Survey (will take about 15 minutes) Link to all State and Local Orders Governors Office  COVID-19 Resource Page (dedicated page) 2020-246 Executive Order re: Emergency Management – COVID 19 – Local Government Public Meetings 2020-244 Executive Order re: Phase 3; Right to Work; Business Certainty; Suspension of Fines Florida Legislature Long-Range Financial Outlook - OEDR FL DOE COVID-19 Update (dedicated page) Re-Opening - DOE Executive Order Executive Order Slides 2021-22 Legislative Budget Request - Summary 2021-22 FEFP Summary Sheet - Proposal 2021-22 DOE Legislative Budget Request - Spreadsheet FL DOHCOVID-19 In Florida (dedicated page) FL DEM COVID-19 FLSERT (dedicated page) Frequently Used Links Florida Governor's Office Florida DOE Florida Senate Florida House of Representatives Florida Channel Pasco Schools Government Relations Tracking Page Copyright © 2020 District School Board of Pasco County, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

October 21, 2020

View this email in your browser October 21, 2020 Tampa Bay Times Hillsborough continues face-mask rule as coronavirus cases climb Pasco pulls out of Super Bowl sponsorship plan Florida leaders consider eventually scaling back on daily coronavirus reporting Back to School Are The Risks Of Reopening Schools Exaggerated? - WUSF South Florida Teachers Are Making Their Own Personal Protective Equipment — Against District Rules - WLRN Enrollment Palm Beach County schools lose 7,300 students -- where did they all go? - PBPost School Safety Two Pasco students arrested for bringing firearm onto campus - ABC Action 2 Pasco students arrested, accused of having gun on school campus - WFLA Two 16-year-olds arrested for having gun at high school in Pasco County - 10News Sarasota School leaders report to FBI image of gun-wielding 'Karen' on Facebook - 10News Lee school district hires Cape's police chief to lead safety, security and emergency management - News-Press LGBTQ Martin County School Board dodges LGBTQ+ History Month vote, adopts broad inclusion measure - TC Palm Hillsborough Mid-week report: Hillsborough County Schools report 56 COVID-19 cases since Sunday - FL Politics Hillsborough Schools Announce $38 Million In Raises While Teacher Cuts Loom - WUSF Hillsborough School Board meets as teachers scramble for new jobs - TBT Hillsborough school district to provide salary increases to all teachers - FL Politics Parents, Teachers, and Students Speak Out Against Hillsborough Schools Planned Cuts - BN9 Feds Judge slams DeVos for rejecting 94% of loan relief claims - AP International Pandemic widens learning gap in education-obsessed S. Korea - AP 2020 Election Florida voters have already cast more mail ballots than entire 2016 election - TBT Ivanka Trump stumps on school choice, defends father’s COVID-19 response. - FL Politics Anger, Frustration Fuel Teachers' Ballots - News13 New teachers union boss fighting Trump, school reopening battles - Politico COVID-19 Florida Counts Statewide & Pasco Turnout - Returned Ballots Government Updates Pasco County SchoolsCOVID-19 (dedicated page) Pasco County  2020 Pasco County Online Citizen Survey (will take about 15 minutes) Link to all State and Local Orders Governors Office  COVID-19 Resource Page (dedicated page) 2020-246 Executive Order re: Emergency Management – COVID 19 – Local Government Public Meetings 2020-244 Executive Order re: Phase 3; Right to Work; Business Certainty; Suspension of Fines Florida Legislature Long-Range Financial Outlook - OEDR FL DOE COVID-19 Update (dedicated page) Re-Opening - DOE Executive Order Executive Order Slides 2021-22 Legislative Budget Request - Summary 2021-22 FEFP Summary Sheet - Proposal 2021-22 DOE Legislative Budget Request - Spreadsheet FL DOHCOVID-19 In Florida (dedicated page) FL DEM COVID-19 FLSERT (dedicated page) Frequently Used Links Florida Governor's Office Florida DOE Florida Senate Florida House of Representatives Florida Channel Pasco Schools Government Relations Tracking Page Copyright © 2020 District School Board of Pasco County, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences