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Member News
FASBO is always looking for stories to help fill our bi-annual magazine, Florida School Business. You're the experts of your field – and we would like you to share new innovative solutions and ideas with your peers. We are seeking submissions for feature material in the following fields: Auditing; Business Management; Environmental/Energy; Facilities Planning and Operations; Finance, Fixed Assets/Property Control; Food and Nutrition Service; Human Resources; Information Technology; Maintenance; Purchasing; Risk Management; Safety and Transportation. Feature articles are typically 1,000-2,000 words in length, although this is flexible depending on the subject matter. You should consider your article a tool for school business officials; it cannot be a vehicle for promotion of products and services. We encourage you to submit supporting artwork such as photographs, charts, tables and graphs. If you think you have an idea that would benefit your fellow FASBO members and the school business community, please send a brief editorial proposal and information about your professional affiliation to Sid Tally, editor, Florida School Business, at sidtally5@gmail.com or Antonya English at aenglish@naylor.com. The deadline to submit content for the Fall/Winter issue is October 4, 2019. IMAGE: Vladwel/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
Conference News
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Industry News & Trends
Former Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville says those pushing school reform have failed to validate on portion of that process: "ignoring or side-stepping the obvious, like the fact that a healthy child is a better learner, that poverty usually constitutes a serious impediment to learning, and that what children do during the 80 percent of waking hours they are not in school can mean the difference between thriving and failing." (The Washington Post)
   Online learning at the K-12 level has grown from an experiment to a movement. To improve the educational outcomes, many school districts and states in the U.S. are turning to online learning. Over 30 states now offer some form of online learning for K-12 students. (Forbes)
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued an opinion letter stating parents and guardians are allowed to use the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) intermittently to attend Individual Education Program (IEP) meetings with teachers, school administrators and others involved in planning education services for children with special needs. (EDUCATION DIVE)
The Orlando Sentinel reported that as students prepared to go back to school in Florida, the state had approximately 3,500 teaching vacancies - the equivalent of one per every school. Columnist Scott Maxwell has some thoughts on the cause of this troubling trend. (Orlando Sentinel)
Despite the availability and cost savings of digital texts, studies indicate that students absorb more information when reading text on paper rather than on screens, according to recent analysis conducted by Virginia Clinton, an assistant professor of education at the University of North Dakota, and published in The Hechinger Report. (The Hechinger Report)
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