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• Brain scans of 104 boys and girls doing basic math tasks found no gender differences. The finding adds to the evidence that boys and girls start out with equal ability in math.
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• There’s a growing demand in Florida for teachers of English as a Second Language with more than 265,000 English language learners in the state.
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• School Superintendents met in Tallahassee Thursday morning to discuss teacher salaries and other challenges facing their districts with Florida lawmakers.
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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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