August 7-8, 2020

View this email in your browser August 7-8, 2020 FL DOE Weekly Memo - 2019 Economic Security Report Summary , Florida Pre-College Entrance Examinations for Grade 10 Students , Memo Regarding Emergency Drills DOE Response to Hillsborough County Schools re: Re-Opening Virtually Tampa Bay Times Hillsborough’s plan to keep schools closed hits state roadblock USF moves to second phase of reopening. Classes to begin in person. Will other districts follow Hillsborough’s decision to delay in-person school? Parents say COVID-19 school supply costs are mounting Suncoast News LaRoche files lawsuit against Pasco Schools Superintendent Browning Re-Opening Health directors told to keep quiet as Fla. leaders pressed to reopen classrooms - PB Post Florida Education Commissioner Denies Hillsborough Schools' Online-Only Plan - WUSF Education Commissioner sends letter halting Hillsborough County plans to start school year online - FL Politics Hillsborough School Board Approves Remote Learning for First Month of School Year - TBT Poll: Most Hillsborough voters don’t want kids to return to schools yet - FL Politics ‘I Was a Little Scared’: Inside America’s Reopening Schools - NYTimes As new academic year looms, public school nurses call for more funding to battle the coronavirus - CNN COVID-19 Florida adds more than 8,500 coronavirus cases, 187 deaths - TBT With no rollbacks, models predicts 62K Florida COVID-19 deaths by December - FL Politics U.S. reports show racial disparities in kids with COVID-19 - AP Odds and Ends Florida back-to-school tax holiday promises needed traffic for retailers - FL Politics Statewide Re-Opening Plans Lobbytools has produced a public document with district re-opening plans, as well as mask requirement, and opening day. Click here. Government Updates Link to all State and Local Orders FL DOE COVID-19 Update (dedicated page) Re-Opening - DOE Executive Order Executive Order Slides Pasco County Pasco Citizens’ Academy Accepting Fall Program Applications - An immersive look at how local government works, apply online by August 10 Pasco County SchoolsCOVID-19 (dedicated page) FL DOHCOVID-19 In Florida (dedicated page) Florida Department of Health Updates New COVID-19 Cases, Announces 185 Deaths Related to COVID-19 - August 7 Governors Office  COVID-19 Resource Page (dedicated page) 2020-192 Executive Order amends Executive Orders 20-68, 20-139, and 20-166 (Rescinds travel restrictions on people coming to Florida from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. People from those areas had been advised to self-quarantine for two weeks.) 2020-179 Executive Order extends Executive Order re: Emergency Management – COVID-19 – Local Government Public Meetings - July 29 2020-180 Executive Order extends Executive Order re: Limited Extension of Mortgage Foreclosure and Eviction Relief - July 29 EO 20-166 - Extending EO 20-52 declaring a state of emergency for the entire state due to COVID-19; and, Extending EO 20-139, implementing Phase 2 of my Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step. Plan for Florida's Recovery. FL DEM COVID-19 FLSERT (dedicated page) COVID-19 Data - Daily Report - August 8 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

August 6, 2020

View this email in your browser August 6, 2020 Pasco Health Dept COVID-19 Testing Sites for Pasco County Tampa Bay Times DeSantis emphasizes Florida school sports in push for reopening Hillsborough School Board votes to delay in-person classes School reopening lawsuit transferred to Leon County Tax-free weekend 2020: The deals parents and teachers really want Questions of disclosure after a Hillsborough teacher gets COVID Re-Opening Pasco schools sticking with Aug. 24 start date - Suncoast Hillsborough schools to resume classes online-only for first four weeks - FOX13 Hillsborough Schools Delay In-Person Classes, First Four Weeks To Be Remote Only - WUSF Hillsborough County Schools will start first four weeks of school year online - FL Politics Court case over reopening Florida schools delayed - News4Jax Broward District Pauses School Meal Distributions, Expects Nonprofits To Fill Void - WLRN Seven hours, no lunch: Some Pinellas County high schoolers won’t get lunch until school’s over - FL Politics Fearing covid and missed classes, many parents prefer mixing online and in-person school, poll finds - WaPost Is it safe to reopen schools during the pandemic? - AP Images of student crowds raise questions in Georgia schools - News4Jax Back in the game: Gov. DeSantis, legendary athletes argue for high school sports - FL Politics FSU-UF football game? Ron DeSantis wants to make it happen - FL Politics COVID-19 How Lee County schools are planning to handle COVID-19-like symptoms on campus - NewsPress PolitiFact: Trump said children are ‘almost immune’ from coronavirus. That’s not accurate. - TBT Florida adds 7,650 new coronavirus cases, 120 deaths Thursday - TBT Funding Feds Seek New Data About Pandemic's Effects on School Funding, Accountability - EdWeek ABC Action News 'Adopt-a-Teacher' effort expands to Pasco County Tropics 2020 could be one of the most active hurricane seasons ever, forecasters say - TBT Odds and Ends Amazon launches first fulfillment center in Tampa Bay area - TBT How do Amazon facilities impact communities around them? - 10News Statewide Re-Opening Plans Lobbytools has produced a public document with district re-opening plans, as well as mask requirement, and opening day. Click here. Government Updates Link to all State and Local Orders FL DOE COVID-19 Update (dedicated page) Re-Opening - DOE Executive Order Executive Order Slides Pasco County Pasco Citizens’ Academy Accepting Fall Program Applications - An immersive look at how local government works, apply online by August 10 Pasco County SchoolsCOVID-19 (dedicated page) FL DOHCOVID-19 In Florida (dedicated page) Florida Department of Health Updates New COVID-19 Cases, Announces 120 Deaths Related to COVID-19 - August 6 Governors Office  COVID-19 Resource Page (dedicated page) 2020-192 Executive Order amends Executive Orders 20-68, 20-139, and 20-166 (Rescinds travel restrictions on people coming to Florida from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. People from those areas had been advised to self-quarantine for two weeks.) 2020-179 Executive Order extends Executive Order re: Emergency Management – COVID-19 – Local Government Public Meetings - July 29 2020-180 Executive Order extends Executive Order re: Limited Extension of Mortgage Foreclosure and Eviction Relief - July 29 EO 20-166 - Extending EO 20-52 declaring a state of emergency for the entire state due to COVID-19; and, Extending EO 20-139, implementing Phase 2 of my Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step. Plan for Florida's Recovery. FL DEM COVID-19 FLSERT (dedicated page) COVID-19 Data - Daily Report - August 6 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

August 5, 2020

View this email in your browser August 5, 2020 Tampa Bay Times Legal challenge to school reopening order hits court Thursday Why go back to the classroom? These teachers explain. Re-Opening Florida, Education Union Battle As School Openings Near - NSF Florida teachers union & state spar over emergency order - News4Jax Teachers and parents voice reopening concerns at Pasco School Board meeting - 10News DeSantis 'Cautious' About Tying Florida School Reopenings To Coronavirus Positivity Rate - WUSF Duval Schools employees won't have to pay COVID-19 medical expenses under new proposal - Times-Union Manatee School has COVID-19 shutdown on Day One - Herald-Tribune Lake County Schools Will Do Quick COVID Testing of Students, Employees Before First Day of School - Daily Commercial Teachers returned to a Georgia school district last week. 260 employees have already gone home to quarantine. - WaPo Gov. DeSantis ‘cautious’ about tying school reopenings to virus rate - NSF When COVID-19 subsided, Israel reopened its schools. It didn’t go well. - NYTimes Governor Asks Judge to Dismiss Florida Teachers Union's Lawsuit Over Schools Reopening - BN9 Dad Creates Protective Barriers to Help Keep Schools Safe from COVID-19 - BN9 Worried About Ventilation in Schools? Hillsborough Working to Update Filters to Combat Coronavirus - BN9 Teacher of the Year Middle-school math teacher Krista Stanley is the 2021 Teacher of the Year - FL Phoenix Sports PCA Spotlight: Pasco County High School Athletic Director Matt Wicks (AUDIO) - 95.3 Statewide Re-Opening Plans Lobbytools has produced a public document with district re-opening plans, as well as mask requirement, and opening day. Click here. Government Updates Link to all State and Local Orders FL DOE COVID-19 Update (dedicated page) Re-Opening - DOE Executive Order Executive Order Slides Pasco County Pasco Citizens’ Academy Accepting Fall Program Applications - An immersive look at how local government works, apply online by August 10 Pasco County SchoolsCOVID-19 (dedicated page) FL DOHCOVID-19 In Florida (dedicated page) Florida Department of Health Updates New COVID-19 Cases, Announces 225 Deaths Related to COVID-19 - August 5 Governors Office  COVID-19 Resource Page (dedicated page) 2020-179 Executive Order extends Executive Order re: Emergency Management – COVID-19 – Local Government Public Meetings - July 29 2020-180 Executive Order extends Executive Order re: Limited Extension of Mortgage Foreclosure and Eviction Relief - July 29 EO 20-166 - Extending EO 20-52 declaring a state of emergency for the entire state due to COVID-19; and, Extending EO 20-139, implementing Phase 2 of my Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step. Plan for Florida's Recovery. FL DEM COVID-19 FLSERT (dedicated page) COVID-19 Data - Daily Report - August 5 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

August 4, 2020

View this email in your browser August 4, 2020 FL DOE Okeechobee Teacher Named 2021 Florida Teacher of the Year Tampa Bay Times No shift in Pasco school reopening plan, despite teacher pleas Tampa Bay parents ‘make the best of a bad situation’ as school year nears Nine tips for starting school during a pandemic Online or on-campus? What Tampa Bay kids are saying about school and the virus Florida’s back-to-school sales tax holiday starts Friday. Here’s what‘s covered. Talk openly to your kids about school and the pandemic, experts say Eluding the virus while at school: a Q&A with health experts Latest stats on COVID in the Hillsborough schools The Laker /Lutz News Concerns raised about reopening School projects address district needs Pasco Schools passes preliminary budget FHSAA delays fall sports start date COVID-19 After two-day decline, coronavirus deaths surge past 7,500 on Tuesday - TBT Poll: Most Floridians think the pandemic’s worst is yet to come - FL Politics 100K new unemployment applications filed in Florida - FL Politics Re-Opening Pasco Teachers Calling for District to Go All Virtual Until Number of Cases Drop - BN9 Pasco County teachers plan protest against reopening schools - FOX13 Dr. Fauci lends support for reopening schools, in-person learning - WFLA Manatee County elementary school employees sent home on first day back after testing positive for COVID-19 - 10News ‘Sweden was right’: Gov. DeSantis says school openings will go forward - FL Politics Virus stresses parents as schools reopen - AP VPK registrations fall in Tampa Bay amid coronavirus concerns - WFLA Parents unhappy with school options assemble learning ‘pods’ - News4Jax Opinion Nutella from the jar, PJs at Publix and mullets? Pitfalls of a COVID-19 lifestyle - PB Post Economy Florida consumer confidence dips again due to COVID-19 resurgence - FL Politics 2020 Census Worries about 2020 census’ accuracy grow with cut schedule - FL Politics Statewide Re-Opening Plans Lobbytools has produced a public document with district re-opening plans, as well as mask requirement, and opening day. Click here. Government Updates Link to all State and Local Orders FL DOE COVID-19 Update (dedicated page) Re-Opening - DOE Executive Order Executive Order Slides Pasco County Pasco Citizens’ Academy Accepting Fall Program Applications - An immersive look at how local government works, apply online by August 10 Pasco County SchoolsCOVID-19 (dedicated page) FL DOHCOVID-19 In Florida (dedicated page) Florida Department of Health Updates New COVID-19 Cases, Announces 247 Deaths Related to COVID-19 - August 4 Governors Office  COVID-19 Resource Page (dedicated page) 2020-179 Executive Order extends Executive Order re: Emergency Management – COVID-19 – Local Government Public Meetings - July 29 2020-180 Executive Order extends Executive Order re: Limited Extension of Mortgage Foreclosure and Eviction Relief - July 29 EO 20-166 - Extending EO 20-52 declaring a state of emergency for the entire state due to COVID-19; and, Extending EO 20-139, implementing Phase 2 of my Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step. Plan for Florida's Recovery. FL DEM COVID-19 FLSERT (dedicated page) COVID-19 Data - Daily Report - August 4 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

August 1-3, 2020

View this email in your browser August 1-3, 2020 Tampa Bay Times Many kids will be learning remotely again. What we learned last spring. Pinellas teachers, district reach deal on school reopening conditions ‘Everything’s changed.’ Virus puts new slant on back-to-school shopping. COVID-19 Tracking coronavirus: Florida turns to students for help with contact tracing - TBT Five who attended same sheriffs meeting as Ron DeSantis test positive for coronavirus - TBT Re-Opening As Sarasota County Schools Finalize Reopening Plan, Some Urge The District To Hit Pause - WUSF State OKs Duval County’s ‘hybrid’ school reopening plan - News4Jax More than 63% of Pinellas County students will return to brick-and-mortar schools -FL Politics First students resume class in Germany after corona shutdown - News4Jax One of America’s first states to reopen schools in person, Tennessee serves as ‘experiment’ in COVID safety - Chalkbeat Private Colleges Eye COVID-19 Liability, Testing Concerns - WLRN Masks Hillsborough County to extend mandatory mask order for another week - FL Politics Duval Citing ‘sensitive issues,’ DCPS warns employees about social media posts - News4Jax Statewide Re-Opening Plans Lobbytools has produced a public document with district re-opening plans, as well as mask requirement, and opening day. Click here. Government Updates Link to all State and Local Orders FL DOE COVID-19 Update (dedicated page) Re-Opening - DOE Executive Order Executive Order Slides Pasco County Pasco Citizens’ Academy Accepting Fall Program Applications - An immersive look at how local government works, apply online by August 10 Pasco County SchoolsCOVID-19 (dedicated page) FL DOHCOVID-19 In Florida (dedicated page) Florida Department of Health Updates New COVID-19 Cases, Announces 73 Deaths Related to COVID-19 - August 3 Governors Office  COVID-19 Resource Page (dedicated page) 2020-179 Executive Order extends Executive Order re: Emergency Management – COVID-19 – Local Government Public Meetings - July 29 2020-180 Executive Order extends Executive Order re: Limited Extension of Mortgage Foreclosure and Eviction Relief - July 29 EO 20-166 - Extending EO 20-52 declaring a state of emergency for the entire state due to COVID-19; and, Extending EO 20-139, implementing Phase 2 of my Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step. Plan for Florida's Recovery. FL DEM COVID-19 FLSERT (dedicated page) COVID-19 Data - Daily Report - August 3 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