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Industry News & Trends
There are approximately 4,700 students who are among those who are homeless in Bay County area schools since the devastation brought on by Hurricane Michael. Eight months after that catastrophic event, school officials are seeing increasing signs that children are bearing the emotional brunt of the aftermath, enough where some fear a rising mental health crisis. (Tampa Bay Times)
   At last week’s State Board of Education meeting, Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran officially announced that the Florida Department of Education has cleared its educator certification backlog. On January 21, the Department had a backlog of 31,666 applications in-hand and eligible for an evaluation, 15,290 of which had been in the department’s possession longer than the statutory limit of 90 days. (Florida Department of Education)
A student data privacy law passed in Louisiana several years ago allows for anyone who collects or shares students’ personally identifiable information (PII) to be punished by up to six months in prison or forced to pay $10,000 in fines. This has led to an educational environment in which educators and school administrators are so worried about breaking the law they have reduced their collection of mass amounts of data in everything from touchdown stats to Students of the Month. (Ed Surge)
Approximately 30 million students per day are fed through the National School Lunch program, and of those 68% receiving federally subsidized meals. But more and more schools are dealing with growing lunch debt and increasingly negative reactions to "lunch shaming" practices such as refusing to serve students whose accounts are overdrawn or providing a cold meal alternative. State laws are now being rewritten to oppose such practices, a federal bill is on the table, and some presidential candidates are incorporating the issue into campaign promises. (Education Week)
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