The latest chapter of the ongoing saga to exhume bodies at the Dozier School for Boys is another one of rejection -- this time from the secretary of state. A team of researchers from the University of South Florida, led by Erin Kimmerle, has been working tirelessly on exhumation after Attorney General Pam Bondi received a similar rejection earlier this year from a circuit court judge.

After sending a task force to take a deeper look at Florida's grading formula, Commissioner Tony Bennett has recommended last-minute changes to the formula to calculate school grades, which are slated to be released sometime this month. Superintendents from Hillsborough and Miami-Dade counties had urged the Board of Education to reassess the grading formula in June after expressing concerns that many of the schools' grades in their districts would plummet with higher standards.