Florida close to closing schools thru end of SCHOOL year. Decision to be made April 15

[Roland99]

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All testing already canceled thru the end of the year

Parents will be given an option to allow students to repeat the year

Cases now over 210 in the state of FL

[evertonfc]

1. why not until

2022 just to be safe.

[BadgerKid]

2. Misleading headline. Put "testing" in there.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The state of Florida is canceling all testing for students in the state's K-12 public schools for the remainder of the school year, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday afternoon.

Parents will have the option to hold their children back for a year if they choose, DeSantis said.

"Requirements for graduation, promotion and final course grades will be evaluated as if those assessments did not exist," DeSantis said.

The governor said all testing will be waived for the rest of the 2019-2020 school year. Schools' evaluation grades will also be canceled, the governor announced.

[Roland99]

4. Gov Ron said a decision for the remainder of the year will be made April 15. Headline is accurate

[malaise]

3. When all these schools close, will the teachers and administrators

still be paid?

[Igel]

5. Depends on the state and its funding.

In Texas to continue receiving the per-student ADA-based funding schools will be expected to offer some sort of online or distance-learning courses. Otherwise they're not teaching. If the schools do that, the students will be deemed present for ADA purposes and the district will get its per-student/per-day funding.

The district I work for is going ahead with plans for online coursework and teachers have been notified that their payroll will be processed on schedule. It just takes somebody in the office for a couple of days per month to process the routine stuff, and with the district essentially shut all the non-routine stuff won't be happening.

That also includes long-term subs and anybody else who'd have been routinely paid, even if their first day of work was going to be the first day school was suspended.

ADA = average daily attendance; the school takes stock of the current enrollment on select days and class periods through the year, and that determines funding according to a formula; some of the funding is federal pass-through and some of it is contributed by the state.


I do have to add something, on edit: Right now "going ahead with plans for online coursework" is pretty meaningless. They're mostly just trying to come up with what the plans might be. As a teacher, no word on exactly how it's going to be implemented, how testing will occur, assignments collected and graded, etc., etc. And since I know my students, I don't really see that going nearly as well as the administrators do.

[Croney]

6. How many parents will hold their children back and have them

repeat the year, if they don't have to? Not many.

[Roland99]

7. Can't imagine many would either

We have friends with seniors this year and a lot of the traditional events and ceremonies won’t happen for them. Sucks but it’s a new reality.

[malaise]

8. Well the only good news related to this is that

it may be the end of school shootings for this school year

[Roland99]

9. Ouch. But true

[tblue37]

10. Here in Kansas schools are also closed for the rest of the school year, by order of the governor. nt

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[Blue_true]

11. Instead of having kids repeat the year, just extend the next school year.

Seniors will be in a bind, but colleges won't be taking them in anyway, so just shift college entrance dates.

[uponit7771]

13. +1

[spanone]

12. A month off?

[onenote]

14. End of school year, not calendar year. Typically late May/early June in Florida

[Roland99]

15. Figured that was understood but edited title

[mcar]

16. SO is a public school teacher in FL

Schools were closed to students this week and next; staff was told to come in. Today, about 2, they were told to leave immediately and plan to return March 30....or mid-May.

No plans for distance learning (which he thought he was there to put together). No word on if they will be paid or not.