Author: Bailey Gallion, Florida Today

The district must pay all employees $15 per hour in October, but will raise pay starting July 1.

DeSantis endorsed Wright along with nine other candidates around the state on Monda

The district has significant pressure from teachers and other staff to dole out recurring raises, and faces challenges from flat enrollment recovery from the pandemic

Brevard Public Schools staff and School Board members reassured parents that safety plans are in place to respond to a potential shooting at a school

BPS must require students to consume food at schools in order to be reimbursed by the national school lunch program.

Thomas Rebman, a teacher at Odyssey Charter School, won the English and History category of the national competition.

Education on the Melbourne campus; $1.2 million will fund an Aerospace Center of Excellence on the Titusville campus.

The Indiana-based Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library criticized Moms for Liberty in a letter and will be providing free copies of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Karyle Green, chief negotiator for BPS, said the district had a bit over 2.5 million for teacher raises

Adam Tritt, an AP English teacher, created an online fundraiser to purchase copies of books like “Slaughterhouse-Five” to provide to students

The warning comes against the background of threats against school boards by parents angry at mask mandates, LGBTQ rights, and teaching about racism.

School Board member Jennifer Jenkins criticized the new policy, but it looks likely to pass at a meeting in late June.

The potential policy change follows two recent attempts to change the names of Brevard County schools

Florida announced in April that it had declined to adopt a record number of math textbooks, saying that 54 out of 132 failed to meet state standards.

Though COVID-19 is still circulating in the county, restrictions on tickets and social distancing has eased for this spring’s commencement ceremonies.

“They’re being taught there’s only one kind of story & that kind of story doesn’t question anything. It doesn’t challenge anyone,” English teacher says

Noting the president’s slave owning past and his role in the Trail of Tears, a few community members are calling for the school to be renamed.

No investigations happened in Brevard, said Ashley Hall, chair of the Brevard chapter of conservative group Moms for Liberty, and local conservative activists

Moms for Liberty his time called out instances of “racially divisive” rhetoric, LGBTQ themes and criticism of Christianity in its challenges

The library book review process paves the way for a review of 41 books the Brevard chapter of Moms for Liberty has challenged