Author: Eric Rogers, Florida Today

The additional space will allow the university to dramatically expand its biomedical engineering and premedical programs.

Thanks to Broward’s legwork, Moore guessed the district could have a plan in place to begin allowing RBTs in two to four weeks.

All district employees, including teachers and support staff, will be paid for days missed from the storm and will not have to make up the time.
       

“When you have a normal functioning child that … becomes disabled in the matter of a few days, its devastating and incomprehensible,” Jonathan Pogar said.

Envall told School Board members she interviewed and was selected for the position but has not yet submitted her official resignation.
       

Since his therapist was booted in late August, his father said, Andrew has had emotional outbursts in class and an incident with another student.

The 2,016-seat auditorium will soon be known as the L3Harris Technologies Theater at the King Center for the Performing Arts.

“Unless there is ownership, they won’t understand how important it is to protect our lagoon,” Weiss said.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Fundraise, fundraise, fundraise. In the case of the Cocoa High chorus, they’ve got the practice down pat.

The raise would lift Florida to No. 2 in the nation for starting teacher salaries, state officials said in a news release.

“The (money) and language is what we need right now to keep many in the game!” one supporter wrote.

Provisions run the gamut from providing additional options for teachers seeking transfers to extra protections during home visits.

When teachers will see the push in their paychecks depends largely on when negotiations will wrap up.
       

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It’s Brevard teachers’ biggest raise since 2015 and the biggest for veteran teachers since before the Great Recession.

The sides converged on a $2,000 bump for teachers rated “highly effective” on their yearly evaluations and $1,500 for teachers rated “effective.”

Brevard school board members will see their salaries drop by about $850 due to the law, which ties school board salary to starting teacher pay.

Highly effective teachers can qualify for up to $2,500 and effective teachers can qualify for up to $1,000.
       

“We are the voices of the families in our community, and the community has resoundingly said: No more games. Pay our teachers.”

The district’s head of finance faced frequent, often heated criticism for a series of perceived missteps during last year’s teacher pay talks.