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Flagler County School Board

A Post-Graduation Letter of Thanks for an Extraordinary Graduation from Superintendent Jim Tager

June 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Superintendent Jim Tager, right, with Chip Wile, president of Daytona International Speedway, Sunday. (Flagler Schools)

We would never be able to make up for missed moments, but for the biggest moment in their K-12 journey, Flagler Schools was able to showcase these graduates on one of the biggest stages, says Superintendent Jim Tager.

FPC and Matanzas Graduates Cross Finish Line at Speedway in Indelible, Pandemic-Defying Ceremonies

May 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Caps went airborne as Matanzas High School graduates prepared for their victory lap this morning at the Daytona International Speedway. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler Schools)

Over 1,000 graduates of Matanzas and Flagler Palm Coast High School gathered at the Daytona International Speedway to receive their diplomas today in two ceremonies that broke with precedent even as they rousingly reaffirmed tradition in the face of limitations imposed by the coronavirus emergency.

Flagler School District Builds Mosaic Honoring Decades of Graduates on Front Lines of Covid Pandemic

May 26, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Just a few of the graduates from Flagler Palm Coast High School and Matanzas High School who've been paid tribute on the school district's Facebook page since early April, for their roles as first responders--cops, firefighters, health care workers. (© FlaglerLive)

The district’s Jason Wheeler sought out graduates of FPC and Matanzas who’d gone on to fill health care and public safety jobs anywhere in the county, the state or the country, and honor them on the district’s Facebook page. There’s been some 200 responses, and counting.

Graduates, Start Your Engines: FPC and Matanzas Will Have In-Person Graduation at the Speedway on May 31

May 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

The plan is for Matanzas and Flagler Palm Coast Graduates to drive their cars across the finish line in a graduate ceremony at the International Speedway on May 31. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Palm Coast High School and Matanzas High School will hold their graduation ceremonies on May 31 at the International Speedway in Daytona Beach following a committee’s work on devising an original plan to ensure a safe, in-person event despite the coronavirus emergency.

A Plea From Superintendent Tager To Telecoms: Students Need Reliable Internet Connections Across Flagler

April 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Superintendet Jim Tager wants every Flagler student's internet connection to be sharp and reliable. For now, students on the west side of the county are at a disadvantage. (© FlaglerLive)

As the Flagler school district went virtual in answer to the coronavirus crisis, it found that unreliable internet service in parts of the county puts some students at a disadvantage. Superintendent Jim Tager asks communications companies to address the gap.

Flagler School Board Adopts Anti-Discrimination Policy Without Specified Protections for Transgender Students

April 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Last February's demonstration outside the Government Services Building, before a school board meeting, which drew proponents and oppnents of the words "gender identity," proposed for a policy the board adopted on Tuesday--without the two words. (© FlaglerLive)

In contrast with months of raucous public debate on the issue, the Flagler school board in a virtual meeting on Tuesday adopted a policy without two words–gender identity–that had triggered intense controversy.

Schools Closed for Rest of School Year; Tager Says Decision Gives Families and Employees ‘Peace of Mind’

April 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to keep schools closed comes amid pressure from the statewide teachers’ union and medical groups. The governor acknowledged “there was some division amongst folks” on the issue.

Flagler County’s Teachers Union Joins Call on Governor To Keep Schools Closed For Rest of the Year

April 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Exactly a year ago, Superintendent Jim Tager and Flagler County Education Association participated in walk-ins across the district, in support of teachers and service employees. The unions' relationships with district administration has long been stable and cooperative. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Education Association President Katie Hansen said today she was “absolutely” behind the state education association president’s call on Gov. Ron DeSantis to keep schools closed for the remainder of the year, for the safety of students, staff and families.

Florida Seeing Over 1,000 New Infections a Day as Federal, State and Local Officials Send Clashing Messages

April 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Army Pvt. Joshua Rodriguez, a combat medical specialist assigned to the Javits New York Medical Station, checks a patient’s pulse in New York on Wednesday. (Department of Defense)

The largest spike of coronavirus cases yet in Flagler-Palm Coast was on Thursday, with seven cases confirmed just that day, for a total of 44. Most of the new cases are the result of local, or community, transmission.

Mittelstadt Signs 3-Year, $154,200 Superintendent Contract After School Board Splits 3-2 Over Details

April 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Cathy Mittelstadt at her March 3 interview, in pre-distancing days. (© FlaglerLive)

The board had approved the contract on Tuesday, but with less unanimity than all five board members wanted: the unusual 3-2 vote split over a clause that two board members said was not giving Mittelstadt the job security she should have in an election year.

No School Board Meetings Until July and Potential Extension of School Year to June 30 as Questions Swirl

March 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A new normal. (© FlaglerLive)

The coronavirus-triggered directives are raising questions among local officials about whether in-person school will resume at all this school year, even after April 15, and about the wisdom of not holding board meetings for long stretches of time.

Flagler and Florida Schools Will Remain Closed Through April 15, But With Distance Learning; State Tests Cancelled

March 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Schools will remain closed until April 15. (© FlaglerLive)

All of Flagler’s schools’ physical campuses will remain closed at least through April 15 by order of Gov. Ron DeSantis, but distance learning will be instituted starting March 31. State tests are cancelled for the remainder of the year in response to the coronavirus emergency.

Flagler Schools Will Distribute Free Breakfast and Lunch Daily; Restaurants Implored to Offer Take-Out Only

March 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Superintendent Jim Tager speaking at a news conference this morning. (Flagler County via Facebook.)

The food distributions will be to all children up to age 18 regardless of qualification for free or reduced lunch, but children must be present and adults will not qualify for the free food, though arrangements with food banks are in the works to address those needs as well.

Grace Community Pantry Steps Up to Offer Food Bridge to Flagler District’s Neediest Children During Emergency

March 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Ready for distribution at Grace Community Food Pantry in Palm Coast. The pantry distributes some 800 bags a week. (Grace Community)

Grace Community Food Pantry, Flagler County’s largest food operation for the neediest, is offering to provide substantial food aid during the coronavirus emergency for distribution to Flagler County schoolchildren who would normally get free or reduced meals at school.

Coronavirus Prevention Is Not Overreaction: Flagler Schools Should Extend Spring Break

March 12, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 47 Comments

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With the coronavirus and its many knowns and unknowns, what may look like an overreaction today is the most effective form of prevention, and should not be given the chance to look like playing catch-up weeks from now. 

Flagler School Board Chooses St. Johns’s Cathy Mittelstadt To Be Its Next Superintendent

March 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board this afternoon chose Cathy Mittelstadt, the assistant school superintendent in St. Johns County, to be the district’s next superintendent, starting July 1 in place of Jim Tager, who will end a three-year tenure.

Public Responses to 4 Superintendent Candidates Draw Sharp Distinctions on Eve of Board’s Choice

March 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The superintendent candidates and school board members at Thursday's meet-and-greet at Buddy Taylor Middle School. From left,

there is no clear-out, absolute favorite in public responses, but there are certainly sharper opinions, good and bad and in descending order, about Earl Johnson, Vernon Orndorff and Cathy Mitteldstadt.

Teacher and Ex-Matanzas Coach Ripley Faces Accusation of Excessive Force With Special Ed Student, 8

March 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

Robert Ripley, a special education teacher at Wadsworth Elementary and a district faculty member since 2004, in a 2015 screen capture from a Florida High School 7v7 Association video, when he was the Matanzas High School football coach.

Wadsworth ESE teacher Robert Ripley was caught on school video twice pushing an 8-year-old student, behavior deemed impermissible by the school board attorney, in an incident that took place just one day after another ESE teacher was fired for using excessive force toward a student.

School Board Superintendent Interviews: Earl Johnson

March 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Earl Johnson. (© FlaglerLive)

Earl Johnson has been the executive director of leadership and operations for Flagler County schools–a position similar to that of deputy superintendent–for the past three years.

School Board Superintendent Interviews: Cathy Mittelstadt

March 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Cathy Mittelstadt at the end of her interview. (© FlaglerLive)

Cathy Mittelstadt, an assistant superintendent for operations in St. Johns County for the past three years, spent the majority of her professional years, almost all of them in leadership positions, in Florida’s top-ranked school district.

School Board Superintendent Interviews: Janet Womack

March 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Janet Womack, a 2016 Alabama Superintendent of the Year and the second of four candidates the Flagler school board interviewed for superintendent today, spoke repeatedly of framing her leadership aims toward excellence: “What is the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae, what will set us apart from the rest?”

School Board Superintendent Interviews: Vernon Orndorff

March 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Vernon Orndorff, a 12-year veteran of Flagler schools who rose to the No. 2 administrative position before taking a job in a small Texas district three years ago, was first up this morning among four candidates for superintendent interviewing with the Flagler County School Board. 

How the School District Allowed “Rocco” Paffumi To Keep Teaching Despite 5 Violent Incidents

February 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Jeffrey "Rocco" Paffumi at the time of his first arrest in 2012, left, and his arrest in January.

Jeffrey Rocco Paffumi, the former Buddy Taylor Middle School teacher who physically threw a student out of class in January, had a long and documented history of violent behavior in and out of the district, including two arrests and at least five previous instances of violent behavior toward students or adults, men and women–in 2007, 2010, 2012 and 2014. Yet he was allowed to keep teaching.

Flagler School District Explains Its Role and Parents’ Responsibilities in Wake of Coronavirus Outbreak

February 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

It's not yet as dire as in some parts of the world affected by the Coronavirus, as in Tehran, above. (Fars)

The Flagler County school district issued a statement regarding district protocols in place in response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, and precautionary expectations as far as what parents and guardians may or should do.

Without Apologies: Why EPAC Exists, and Why We Are Concerned About the Choice for Superintendent

February 26, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

A.R. Penck's 'Large World Picture' (1965).

Kristi Furnari, secretary of the Exceptional Student Education Parent Advisory Council, explains the organization’s deep and at times controversial involvement in the Flagler school district’s search for the next superintendent.

Orndorff, Mittelstadt, Johnson and Womack Will Be Interviewed for Superintendent; Conklin Eliminated

February 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Combining local and non-local applicants, the Flagler County School Board will interview four candidates for superintendent: Kathy Mittelstadt, Vernon Orndorff, Earl Johnson and Janet Womack.

Hearts and Rainbows v. Satan and Lies as LGBTQ Advocates and Opponents Hold Neighboring Demonstrations

February 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Some of this evening's demonstrators for LGBTQ rights and protections in schools, from left, Jonas Winter, a 10th grader at Matanzas High School, Elliott Bertrand, a 10t grader at Flagler Palm Coast High School, Dmitri Marve, 12th grader at Matanzas, Lylia Demais, 7th grader at Buddy Taylor Middle School, and Takota Kokoun, 23, in college, formerly of Flagler schools. (© FlaglerLive)

The two demonstrations by advocates and opponents of LGBTQ rights outside the Government Services Building in Bunnell preceded the Flagler County School Board meeting Tuesday night, which again was dominated by transgender rights issues.

Issuing Superintendent Preferences, ESE Committee Is Sharply Critical of Process and Local Candidates

February 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The School Board-appointed Citizens Advisory Committee met just twice to prepare its list of recommended candidates for superintendent, the second time last week (above), leading a different committee not sanctioned by the school board to provide its own recommendations--and plenty of criticism for the advisory committee's approach. (© FlaglerLive)

The Exceptional Student Education Parent Advisory Council, a group of volunteers recognized but not sanctioned by the Flagler County School Board, issued its own recommendations for superintendent–a list of six candidates, none of them local, while pointedly excluding or sharply criticizing four of the local candidates who’d made a different short list.

Jim Tager Lands Superintendent Job in Vermont, But Not Before End of Local ‘Marathon’

February 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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A 1,700-student school district in northeast Vermont voted unanimously this week to appoint Jim Tager its next superintendent as the Flagler School Board’s search for his replacement approaches its conclusion.

Retreating from HPV Vaccine in Flagler Schools, Health Department Expands Its Own After-School Hours for Access

February 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

More vaccination options will be available at the Flagler Health Department on Dr. Carter Boulevard in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

The second Tuesday of every month starting May 12 the Flagler Health Department will make all vaccines for all ages available free to accommodate parents who can’t take advantage of the department’s morning immunization schedules.

In Flagler Primary for Superintendent, Orndorff, Mittelstadt, Johnson and Conklin Are Committee’s Top Choices

February 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Tallying up the preferences at tonight's meeting. (© FlaglerLive)

Vernon Orndorff, Cathy Mittelstadt, Earl Johnson and Colleen Conklin each got 50 percent or more votes from the 20-member citizens’ committee making non-binding but still weighty recommendations for superintendent to the school board.

Special Education Council Draws Up Superintendent Recommendations as Board’s Consultants Fret

February 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

School Board Chairman Janet McDonald last week addressing members of the Citizens Advisory Committee in charge of drawing up a short list of superintendent candidates. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler schools’ Exceptional Student Education Parent Advisory Council is submitting a list of superintendent candidates it deems worthy of further research to the school board-appointed citizens advisory committee. EPAC’s involvement was not quite welcomed by the board’s consultants.

The School Board’s Proposed Decorum Rules Are a Pretext to Silence Critical Information

February 6, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 20 Comments

The Flagler County School Board has taken to plastering its rules outside meeting rooms. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board is considering speech restrictions at its meetings that include comment cards before a person can speak and prohibiting references to staff, students or anyone in the district.

Colleen Conklin’s Name and Harsh Charge Overlay Superintendent Search Advisory Panel’s First Meeting

February 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Members of the Citizens Advisory Committee appointed by the school board to recommend a selection of candidates for superintendent, just before their first meeting at the Government Services Building in Bunnell Tuesday evening. (© FlaglerLive)

School Board member Colleen Conklin’s decision to run for superintendent on at least seven occasions dominated discussions and concerns at the first meeting of the board-appointed Citizens Advisory Committee charged with drawing up a selection of top candidates from a list of 35.

School Board’s Trevor Tucker Asks For Expedited Attorney General Opinion on Conklin’s Superintendent Application

February 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Trevor Tucker, center, is hoping an Attorney General's opinion will shed clarity on the superintendent selection process and protect the board from legal vulnerabilities following Colleen Conklin's decision to apply for superintendent. Conklin is to the left. (© FlaglerLive)

School Board member Trevor Tucker wants Attorney General Ashley Moody to shed clarity on the legal and ethical implications of Colleen Conklin’s “unprecedented” decision to apply for the superintendent’s post from her seat as a school board member.

Colleen Conklin, Candidate for Superintendent, Takes Leave From School Board to Avoid Conflicts

February 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Flagler County School Board members will see less of Colleen Conklin over the next few weeks as they consider the appointment to the superintendent post, for which she is a candidate. From left, Maria Barbosa, Trevor Tucker, Janet McDonald and Conklin after Conklin was last sworn in, in 2016. (© FlaglerLive)

School Board member Colleen Conklin said to avoid any appearance of conflict and reduce difficulties for her colleagues, she would step back from board duties until the appointment of the new superintendent on March 17.

Girl Who Threatened to Kill FPC Teacher in Racist Screed Gets Probation, and Must Write Essay on Hate Speech

February 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The girl was finger--printed immediately after the sentencing in circuit court this afternoon. (© FlaglerLive)

The 17-year-old former Flagler Palm Coast High School girl last December was found guilty of terrorist threats to kill her English teacher through racist-laced electronic messages with another student in December 2018.

School Board: Don’t Boot Out 4 Advisory Panel Citizens in Superintendent Search Because of Conklin’s Application

February 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The Flagler County School Board preparing for a meeting last year. (© FlaglerLive)

Stephen Furnari is one of the Conklin appointees to the Citizens Advisory Committee, and a representative of the ESE community. But he and three other Conklin appointees are being excluded from the committee now that Conklin is applying for superintendent.

Colleen Conklin Applies for Flagler Superintendent in Bold But Risky Move After 20 Years as School Board Member

January 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

School Board member Colleen Conklin reading to students at Belle Terre Elementary School. (© FlaglerLive)

Colleen Conklin, at 20 years the longest-serving member of the Flagler County School Board, this afternoon applied to be the next superintendent, a move that triggers a series of ramifications and places her four colleagues in the odd position of deciding whether to be her boss.

FPC Principal Cautions of Anonymous Threat With ‘Some Specificity’ as Campus Security Heightens

January 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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An anonymous threat was reported by way of a tip to Flagler Palm Coast High School officials, who are taking precautions this morning, heightening security sweeps.

Just 21 Apply for Flagler Superintendent With 4 Days to Go, Among Them Vernon Orndorff

January 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Vernon Orndorff fell a vote short of being Flagler's superintendent in 2017. He's applying again. (© FlaglerLive)

Cathy Mittelstadt, the deputy superintendent in St. Johns County Schools, and Vernon Orndorff, previously Jacob Oliva’s right-hand man in the Flagler district, are among the applicants. The window closes Jan. 31.

Beyond Transgender Student’s Transfer Out of Matanzas, Calls on School Board to Take LGBTQ Safety Seriously

January 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Many in the school board chamber turned their back on Charlene Cothran as the pastor again attacked a transgender student and LGBTQ rights at a meeting of the board Tuesday evening.

A throng of students, faculty members and parents asked the Flagler County School Board Tuesday to support more explicit procedures protecting LGBTQ students as Charlene Cothran, a Palm Coast pastor, again attacked the a transgender student and ridiculed LGBTQ rights.

A Day After a Teacher Is Arrested for Battering a Student, a 15-Year-Old Is Arrested for Battering FPC Dean

January 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Flagler Palm Coast High School Dean Erin Davis testifying in court in an unrelated case last month. (© FlaglerLive)

A 15-year-old Flagler Palm Coast High School student was arrested and charged with battery against FPC Dean Erin Davis, the student’s second such charge involving a faculty member since August.

Flagler Schools’ Graduation Rate Rises to 89%, Powered by Girls

January 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Florida's graduation rate has improved almost every year since 2003, a trend mirrored by the rate in the Flagler County school district, which has exceeded the state. (Department of Education)

There is a sharp disparity between boys and girls: among girls, 97 percent of Matanzas’ students graduated, and 91 percent of FPC’s did. Among boys, the rate was 91 at Matanzas and 82 at FPC.

Jeffrey ‘Rocco’ Paffumi, 47, Teacher at Buddy Taylor Middle, Arrested for Battery on a Student, 14

January 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 130 Comments

Jeffrey Rocco Paffumi.

Jeffrey Allen Paffumi, a teacher at Buddy Taylor Middle School, was arrested after physically throwing a 14-year-old student out of his classroom after the student would not turn down his music and called him a name.

School Board’s New Suicide-Prevention Policy Would Require Training for All Faculty

January 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

School Board member Colleen Conklin led a suicide-awareness town hall in Palm Coast last spring. (© FlaglerLive)

With youth suicide rising sharply in the past decade, the Flagler County School Board will discuss adopting a proposed suicide-prevention policy, the district’s first, which calls for two hours of continuing education training for all faculty, including administrators.

Flagler School Board Lets a Pastor Insult a Transgender Student at a Meeting, In His Presence

December 19, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 67 Comments

Rev. Charlene Cothran of Palm Coast’s Zion Baptist Church, and a Realtor in town, appeared before the school board Tuesday

Rev. Charlene Cothran of Palm Coast called a transgender student “mentally ill” and his father “confused” and “intimidated” in both their presence during a Flagler County School Board meeting this week, with pushback only from Colleen Conklin.

Amicus Curiae: The 16-Year-Old FPC Girl Was Racist. She Was Stupid. She Was Not Criminal.

December 11, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 18 Comments

Assistant State Prosecutor Jason Lewis, left, shows FPC School Resource Deputy Jason Williams the computer the 16-year-old girl (now 17) used to write her side of the chat at the heart of the case, with another student, last December. Circuit Judge Chris France heard the case in a non-jury trial last week. A decision is expected in the next few days. (© FlaglerLive)

In the case of an FPC girl who wrote bigoted threats about her teacher last December, the prosecution is making outlandish claims that it was act of terrorism, stretching the meaning of a 2018 law passed after the Parkland massacre. The law does not apply, as even the prosecution acknowledged the case’s weaknesses.

For Public, Diversity and Technology Don’t Rate as High as District’s Priorities in Superintendent Search

December 10, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Flagler school board's interview set-up five years ago, when it hired Jacob Oliva as superintendent. It'll be going through the third such exercise again in March. (© FlaglerLive)

Inspirational, trustworthy and innovative. On top of current educational issues. Financially savvy. Good listener. Familiar with Flagler schools. Those are the top qualities unidentified respondents want in the next Flagler County school superintendent, according to a school district online survey.

Belle Terre Elementary PTO President Jennifer Paterno Addresses Ongoing Investigations

December 4, 2019 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Looking past the Terence Culver era at Belle Terre Elementary. (© FlaglerLive)

Belle Terre Elementary School President Jennifer Paterno discusses her role in bringing to light issues that led to an internal school district and criminal investigation of alleged financial improprieties in the organization previously.

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