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• The yearlong emergency grant that UCF Restores received from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to open a clinic for Hurricane Maria and Irma evacuees ended this month.
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• Florida Education Association President Fedrick Ingram says they’ll meet with local leaders, activists and parents and students to call for $1 billion dollars for teacher raises and another $1.4 billion to support arts programs and upgrades to technology.
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• Bethune Cookman University President, Brent Chrite, took over a college mired in controversy. Documents released in June show that BCU has suffered five consecutive years of losses, including nearly $38 million over the past three years, and there’s a federal investigation into a $306 million dollar student housing project.
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• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will ask the Legislature to increase the minimum starting salary for public school teachers to $47,500 a year.
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• South Florida schools with mostly white students are better funded than those with mostly black and Latino students, according to a new report from a national education reform advocacy organization.
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• “She has some sort of separation anxiety. She follows me everywhere”. The grandmother of a 6 year old arrested at an Orlando charter school talks about the psychological impact of the arrest on her granddaughter.
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• The University of Florida’s “Scientist in Every Florida School” program will connect scientists to K-12 classrooms in Escambia, Alachua, Seminole, Lee, and Palm Beach.
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