Eleven Florida school districts have been approved to begin receiving local Race to the Top funding, the state Department of Education announced Tuesday.
Grant award notices totaling more than $25 million were sent to districts in Alachua, Calhoun, Clay, DeSoto, Gulf, Hendry, Holmes, Manatee, Pasco, Putnam and Washington.
DOE said applications for the remaining 55 grant-eligible districts are being evaluated on an ongoing basis with award notices going out as the approvals occur. All remaining award notices are expected to be issued by the end of the month.
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Rick Scott's inaugural prayer breakfast was an ecumenical affair Tuesday.
In addition to the usual priests, reverends and rabbis, speakers included Jacksonville Imam Enrique Rasheed, who read from the Quran with a Southern accent.
The primary preacher was Watergate conspirator-turned-prison chaplain Chuck Colson, who called the current political environment "ugly."
As an antidote, Colson urged the revival of "the great republican virtue: a sense of civic duty."
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Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is considering canceling the results of the November elections by changing the Senate rules when senators conduct their opening day procedures Wednesday.
Gov.-elect Rick Scott picked the director of a Jacksonville shipyard on Monday to run his Department of Environmental Protection, turning to an unconventional source for the states top natural resources watchdog.
"Housing Market Setback Forecast" the newspaper headline said. A recently released report on housing says that home sales are down more than 25 percent and the inventory of unsold homes is about 50 percent higher than it was the same time last year.
The state's biggest labor union, the Florida Education Association, is asking teachers to wear red on Tuesday "to show solidarity for public schools."
The red alert is no early Valentine for incoming Gov. Rick Scott, but rather a reminder of the hard-fought battle over Senate Bill 6 -- and a warning to the GOP governor on Inauguration Day.
"This is a time that we must continue to work together as educators in Floridas public schools, as we stood together for Senate Bill 6," St. Lucie County union president Vanessa Tillman stated in an e-mail Monday.
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A cacophony of country music, pride and patriotism honored Floridas armed services members Monday as part of the first day of events to herald Gov.-elect Rick Scotts entry into office.
Rick Scott won Florida's governorship as an outsider who took on the state's political establishment. As he takes the oath of office Tuesday, the former health-care executive will have the opportunity to extend his attack to Washington, D.C.
About 300 invitees crowded into the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science to honor incoming first lady Ann Scott, at a luncheon featuring a half-dozen longtime friends of Floridas soon-to-be-first couple.
