🚨🚨🚨 Jax education thread 🧵— Florida Department of Education annual grades dropped Monday. I spent the week analyzing them for a three-part @jaxdotcom exclusive. Here’s what you need to know ⤵️
Because of the coronavirus pandemic's impacts on the school year, school districts & individual schools could opt-in or opt-out of getting a letter grade for the 2020-21 academic year only. Duval and 55 others opted out. I tabulated the score anyway. jacksonville.com/story/news/edu…
Aug 23, 2021 • 136 tweets • 20 min read
And we're LIVE — Duval School Board is meeting to discuss its current opt-out mask policy and potentially strengthening to a full fledged mandate, which would fall in line with what other comparably sized Florida school districts are doing: jacksonville.com/story/news/edu…
A Duval Schools officer said anti-mask protestors pulled up the tape masking off seats for social distancing within the auditorium. They were not fixed.
Jun 10, 2021 • 69 tweets • 12 min read
Good morning, today's a big day in Jax Ed news. The FL Board of Education meeting is happening at FSCJ. The brd is expected to consider teaching standards that put strict guidelines on how history lessons are taught. It's part of a push from up top to get Critical Race Theory out
Ahead of the meeting, activists, teachers, parents, etc. are protesting the new rule. The Northside Coalition circulated flyers last week to rally. Community meetings that centered around CRT took place in Baker County yesterday & St. Johns the day before. I'll be live tweeting.
Jun 1, 2021 • 81 tweets • 12 min read
Maybe, hopefully, the end of a year-long debate over school renaming in Jacksonville will come to a close tn. Or at least a close for now, depending on how votes go. It's a packed house & goodness knows how long pub comment will last. Follow this thread for updates @jaxdotcom
The latest background on how we got here. Supplementary stories are linked within the story: jacksonville.com/story/news/edu…
Mar 11, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Rebekah Jones was catapulted into the public eye after saying she was fired for refusing to change COVID-19 data. What followed became a rivalry between a woman who never wanted the spotlight & state officials who wish she would shut up. For @Cosmopolitan: cosmopolitan.com/politics/a3571…
In our exclusive interview, @GeoRebekah discusses the aftermath she experienced from not only her firing but her subsequent media tours, a police raid, an arrest and ultimately, contracting the very disease she spent months trying to warn everyone about. cosmopolitan.com/politics/a3571…
Jul 7, 2020 • 108 tweets • 21 min read
LIVE: The Duval School Board meeting is kicking off and it's a loaded agenda. You can follow along for yourself here: dcps.duvalschools.org/Page/9877
Jones says cost to change all school names would be between $700,000-$1 million. Thanks @JaxPEF for establishing the community fund. More on that: jacksonville.com/news/20200707/…
May 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: An award-winning Duval teacher with honors from then-Gov. Rick Scott refused to abide by a transgender teen's pronouns, prompting training + an apology. But he continued posting bigoted memes mocking the LGBTQ community: jacksonville.com/news/20200521/…
The story starts in August, when an incoming trans sophomore at Sandalwood High School emailed her teachers letting them know her chosen name & pronouns. Thomas Caggiano, 61, said no. He called it "non-negotiable." jacksonville.com/news/20200521/…
Aug 4, 2018 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
🚨 Remember like one Tweet ago where I commented on all the redactions in the Parkland shooter report? @SunSentinel reported that 64 percent of it was concealed. Well, I take all of that back because I'm reading the complete version now. A THREAD 🚨
Today, a 46-pg report detailing how Broward Schools failed the Parkland school shooter was released, a ruling that it was the public's right. 1,707/1,078 lines were concealed "to comply with the shooter’s educational and medical privacy rights." Except not really.
