• This week Florida’s education commissioner Richard Corcoran released an executive order telling schools that they will have to open up brick and mortar campuses five days a week in fall. Intersection host Matthew Peddie spoke to Elizabeth Albert, president of the Volusia United Educators, about how teachers are responding to the executive order.
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• Volusia County reported 220 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest daily count for the county since the beginning of the pandemic in mid-March.
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• “People are just way out of control,” the paramedic told a sheriff’s deputy. “Everyone’s freaking out about this virus.”
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• The Florida Department of Health has announced the first presumptive case of coronavirus in Central Florida. The department says a 66 year old woman in Volusia County who recently traveled overseas is in isolation after testing presumptive positive for the virus.
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• The Volusia County Council will vote tomorrow to decide the property tax rate for the upcoming fiscal year.
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• Tim Egnor was picked by the school board yesterday.
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• A recent report named the Orlando metro area as the worst place in the country for affordable housing, with many locals struggling to find homes and rentals within their budgets. Jodi Peña-Castaldi with Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida explains the impact of the affordable housing crisis.
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