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Beginning on Wednesday, September 28th, all schools and facilities will be closed, and extracurricular activities will be canceled through Thursday, September 29th.
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Week five in high school football proved to be a struggle for both the Apopka Blue Darters and Wekiva Mustangs.
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From Staff Reports
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9/25/22
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Many school districts across the United States are in the midst of a crisis: a teacher shortage. Part of the problem is due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are other reasons.
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By Tuan D. Nguyen, Kansas State University
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9/20/22
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UF/IFAS Extension continues its classes and programs for Apopka and Orange County residents in October.
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From the UF/IFAS extension
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9/14/22
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The Apopka Blue Darters and Wekiva Mustangs took to the field Friday night in week three of the high school football season. Both teams were coming off losses in week two.
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From Staff Reports
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9/11/22
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A nationwide assessment of elementary school kids indicates that 9-year-olds have been having a harder time reading since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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By Danielle J. Brown, Florida Phoenix
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9/7/22
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It was a tough night for the Apopka Blue Darters and the Wekiva Mustangs. Both teams fell to 1-1 on the season in heartbreaking losses.
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From Staff Reports
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9/5/22
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The average scale score in 2020 for 9-year-olds in a sampling of schools across the country was 241. But in 2022, it dropped to 234, the largest drop in decades.
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By Danielle J. Brown, Florida Phoenix
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9/5/22
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Florida is expanding its purchase of electric transit and school buses statewide through funding from a national 2016-era EPA Volkswagen settlement.
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Overall, 49% of 10th graders got a passing score of at least 3 on the spring ELA exam. In total, 202,900 10th graders took the exam.
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By Danielle J. Brown, Florida Phoenix
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8/29/22
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It was a dark and stormy night in Apopka, and the Blue Darters were in peril of losing a winning streak that has stood the test of time.
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From Staff Reports
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8/28/22
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President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he would cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt for Pell Grant borrowers and up to $10,000 for all other borrowers.
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By Ariana Figueroa, Florida Phoenix
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8/24/22
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With little guidance from the state, educators in Apopka and across the state were left to interpret the new law by their own judgment.
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Olsen: "We must come together with a coordinated, consistent, UNITED, and UNRELENTING effort to make the changes in Tallahassee to address our overcapacity."
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UF/IFAS Extension continues its summer classes and programs for Apopka and Orange County residents in September.
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From the UF/IFAS extension
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8/16/22
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In a crucial state Algebra 1 exam, 49 percent of students passed in 2022, up from 47 percent from the year before, according to Florida Department of Education data.
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By Danielle J. Brown, Florida Phoenix
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8/16/22
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As parents ready their children for the start of a new school year, some may be thinking ahead to a weekly or even daily challenge: preparing packed lunches.
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From UF/IFAS
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8/11/22
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Last year, there were 2,700 school bus crashes in Florida. The FHP urges motorists to always be alert and drive with caution around school buses.
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From the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
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8/11/22
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To date, the District has funded 75 water resource education projects with a total of nearly $105,000 awarded to local schools.
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From the St. John's River Water Management District
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8/7/22
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The Apopka Blue Darters football team fell just one game short of its fourth state championship last year. But their quest begins again later this month.
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From Staff Reports and Scorebook Live
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8/4/22
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The Florida Department of Revenue has released a Frequently Asked Questions document about the 2022 tax holiday, which outlines items exempt from sales taxes.
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By Danielle J. Brown, Florida Phoenix
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7/31/22
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This year’s application cycle opens Aug. 1 through Sept. 15, 2022, at 5 p.m. Teachers in grades 6–12 at public and charter schools within the St. Johns River Water Management District are eligible.
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From the SJRWMD
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7/28/22
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The back-to-school market is now worth $34.4B for K-12 students, per Deloitte. And this year, parents are expected to spend an average of $661 per child, up 8% and 27% from 2019.
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By Juliet Bennett Rylah, The Hustle
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7/26/22
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Food deserts. Poor housing conditions. Lack of community investment. These challenges may not always come to mind when people think about how to improve America’s public schools.
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Alisha Butler, Wesleyan University
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7/20/22
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Worried your kids will forget what they learned in school over the summer? Scholars have been studying the problem for over a century.
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By Suzanne McLeod, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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7/19/22
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