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Flagler County School Board

In Flagler Schools, New Regime of Book Challenges Is Laborious, Subjective and Fraught With Uncertainties

December 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Scott Rooke lectern (© FlaglerLive)

Gray areas of uncertainty, anxiety, subjectivity and a gaping lack of state direction are shading the new regime of serial book challenges and book bans in the Flagler school district as the state Department of Education has yet to issue directions on library holdings.

Appeals Court Upholds School Board Speech Rules in Defeat for Moms for Liberty, For Now

November 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler County School Board rules are almost identical to those of the Brevard County School Board. (© FlaglerLive)

A federal appeals court has rejected an attempt by a chapter of the conservative group Moms for Liberty to block restrictions that the Brevard County School Board placed on public participation at board meetings. The Brevard rules are almost identical to those of the Flagler County School Boards, which had been at the center of controversy two summers ago.

3-2 Splits Resume as New School Board Members Are Seated and Massaro Is Elected Chair

November 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

County Judge Melissa Distler swears in Christy Chong with the new school board member's husband, Kirk Chong, at her side, this morning. (Flagler Schools)

The school board’s swearing in and reorganization meeting began on a note of unity but quickly turned to muted contention in a pair of telling 3-2 votes that renew the same split the board has contended with for the past several years.

Citing Orwell, Federal Judge Calls DeSantis’s ‘Stop Woke Act’ Unconstitutional Muzzling of Academic Freedom

November 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

The 'Stop Woke Act' could make it difficult to discuss Bull Connor's response to civil rights. (© FlaglerLive)

Calling the state’s approach “positively dystopian,” a federal judge on Thursday blocked a law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts the way race-related concepts can be taught in universities. The law is “antithetical to academic freedom and has cast a leaden pall of orthodoxy over Florida’s state universities,” Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote in the 139-page ruling.

FPC’s Cameron Driggers and Roymara Louissaint Win MedNexus Innovation Challenge With Sleep App

November 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Cameron Driggers and Roymara Louissaint presenting their RedShield company's technology at the MedNexus challenge Wednesday at the Palm Coast Community Center. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

Emerging out of a field of 25 teams, Flagler Palm Coast High School seniors Cameron Driggers and Roymara Louissaint won the second annual MedNexus Innovation Challenge Wednesday, and $1,000 each, by developing an experiment-based idea that uses technology against itself in an effort to reduce teens’ sleep deprivation.

Leann Pennington, Theresa Pontieri, Will Furry and Cathy Heighter Win, Half-Cent Tax Passes, Amendments Fail

November 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 75 Comments

Theresa Pontieri, left, has won a seat on the Palm Coast City Council, and Leaann Pennington, who walloped Joe Mullions in the primary, defeated Jane Gentile-Youd, an independent, to win a seat on the County Commission, which hasn;t had a woman serving there since Barbara Revels six years ago. (© FlaglerLive)

For Flagler County and Palm Coast, it is an election of new faces: four races, four newcomers to elected office: Leann Pennington won a seat on the County Commission, Theresa Pontieri and Cathy Heighter won seats to the Palm Coast City Council, and Will Furry won a Flagler County School Board seat.

Flagler Schools Have Been Quietly Banning or ‘Removing’ Many Books Since Summer in Bow to ‘Moms for Liberty’

November 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

Last year's ban from Flagler schools' library shelves of a single book drew protests and national attention. But many more bpooks have been banned since in the district, without a word, or even the school board necessarily being aware of them. (© FlaglerLive)

The school district has been quietly and steadily banning books from library shelves at Flagler Palm Coast and Matanzas High, and at Indian Trails and Buddy Taylor middle schools since summer, FlaglerLive has found, with every title part of a list of challenges from just three members of the group known as “Moms for Liberty.” There is no indication that the challengers are reading the books, but they have been asked to join the district’s review committee.

Will Furry Chooses Sleaze. Again.

October 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

In his heart, he knows she's right. (© FlaglerLive)

Will Furry, the candidate for Flagler County School Board in the race he’s contesting against Courtney VandeBunte, is running a sleazy campaign funded by deceptive PACs and rich in lies and fabrications. Yet he calls it his “journey of faith.”

Courtney VandeBunte, Flagler County School Board Candidate: The Live Interview

October 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Courtney VandeBunte. (© FlaglerLive)

Courtney VandeBunte is in a runoff election for the open District 2 seat on the Flagler County School Board, facing Will Furry. All Flagler voters, regardless of party affiliation and address, may cast a ballot in the race.

Will Furry, Flagler County School Board Candidate: The Live Interview

October 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Will Furry. (© FlaglerLive)

Will Furry is in a runoff election for the open District 2 seat on the Flagler County School Board, facing Courtney VandeBunte. All Flagler voters, regardless of party affiliation and address, may cast a ballot in these races.

A Severe Polarization of School Boards on the Whole Continent

October 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Two particularly divisive school board members in Flagler County, Jill Woolbright and Janet McDonald, lost election bids during the primary. (© FlaglerLive)

Groups that oppose the teaching of critical race theory and 2SLGBTQ+ supports in schools often position themselves as truly or more accurately in favor of social justice by co-opting social justice language, alleging critical race theory discriminates against white people. School boards have been at the centre of these attacks.

Trump-Appointed Judge Refuses to Block Florida Law Muzzling Gender ‘Instruction’ In Schools

October 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Skirting merits of the law by citing lack of standing, U.S. District Judge Wendy Berger refused to block school districts from carrying out a new state law that restricts instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in classrooms. She rejected arguments by parents, students and a non-profit organization.

School Boards Now Required to Out LGBTQ Bathrooms and Muzzle Discussions of Gender and Race

October 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Down the drain: New rules issued by the state Board of Education redefine privacy and free speech in public schools. (© FlaglerLive)

County school boards and charter schools will have to follow new requirements for notifying parents about policies involving access to bathrooms and locker rooms, and teachers could be fired if they violate two controversial new laws muzzling discussion of gender identity and racial matters.

Flagler School Board May Approve Stocking Narcan-Like Agents in Schools to Prevent Overdose Deaths

October 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Members of the Flagler County Drug Foundation at a community event at the Carver Center in Bunnell last May, when they talked about the life-saviong capacities of Narcan. Foundation personnel urged the Flagler County School Board last month to make Narcan available in schools. The board today decided to do so. (Facebook)

Taking advantage of a new law, the Flagler County School Board will develop a plan enabling school personnel, starting with nurses, to carry and administer Narcan, the effective naloxone agent in reversing the risks of a fatal drug overdose. A physician will develop the protocols to be used. The Flagler County Drug Foundation is making Narcan available to the district for free for at least two years.

Tiger Bay Election Forum, Live Now from the Palm Coast Community Center

October 6, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The candidate panel and the questioners' panel this evening, before the forum, at the Palm Coast Community Center. (© FlaglerLive)

FlaglerLive is live-streaming this evening’s Flagler Tiger Bay candidate forum from the Palm Coast Community Center, starting at 6 p.m.

There Will Be No School Make-Up Days for Hurricane Ian, But Calendar Terms Will Shift

October 5, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Students in Flagler County schools will not have to make up the three days lost to Hurricane Ian, based on a plan devised by the school district and presented to the School Board on Tuesday.

Armed Employees or Guards in Flagler Schools Would Cost $150,000 to $600,000 in 1st Year

September 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Keeping it safe is the challenge: above, a single corridor at Indian Trails Middle School, whose entire property spreads over 85 acres. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School board would have to pay initial annual costs of over $150,000 to nearly $600,000 for any of three options to have armed staffers or guards on its nine campuses, in addition to the $1 million it is paying annually to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

Flagler District Pays $6 Million for 685 Students to Attend Private Schools, Many Out of County, or Homeschooled

September 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 65 Comments

Flagler County's taxpayers are underwriting the private school education and transportation of some two dozen students attending Calvary Christian school in Ormond Beach, among the 685 students the district is paying for to attend private schools or to homeschool. (© FlaglerLive)

A new state law requires the Flagler County school district this year to pay just over $6 million to underwrite the private-school education of 685 students, including at parochial and out-of-county schools. The money also goes to families home-schooling their children.

Flagler Schools Just Barely Set New Enrollment Record, Matanzas High Exceeds 2,000 Students

September 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Flagler schools enrollment in traditional and charter schools over the past 22 years. (© FlaglerLive)

While the Flagler County school district set an enrollment record for the first time in 13 years, it is still not the substantial growth that the district has been speaking of for the past year and a half, or the sort of growth that  might have been expected to parallel the ongoing building boom in Palm Coast and the rest of the county.

Flagler School Board Won’t Arm Civilians or Staffers This Year as Questions and Divisions Persist

September 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Yet too many unanswered questions about arming civilians on campus, in School Board member Cheryl Massaro's view. (© FlaglerLive)

The state gave the Sheriff’s Office only seven days to complete an application required to tap into training grants for arming civilians on campuses, and the Flagler County School Board still has a series of unanswered questions. Election re-alignments also add another level of uncertainty about whether there’s a real desire to go the route of armed civilians in schools.

Swords Sheathed, County, Cities and District Resolve Clash Over Developers’ Dues for School Construction

September 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Three smiling lawyers and a mayor: Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, standing, liked seeing the smiles on the faces of Assistant County Attorney Sean Moylan, seated, second from left, Palm Coast City Attorney Neysa Borkert, and Chris Wilson, the attorney representing the Flagler County School Board on concurrency issues. (© FlaglerLive)

This morning’s meeting of the so-called ILA (or inter-local agreement) Oversight Committee, gathering elected officials from the school district and other local governments, was distinctly more relaxed as a year-long clash over what some developers must pay, and when, to ensure school capacity for new students, was over.

70% of Flagler County Students Fail Civic Literacy Test, 63% Fail Across Florida in Exam’s 1st Year

September 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

The Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, where Lt. Jack Robinson, who became known as Jackie Robinson, the trail-blazing baseball superstar, was stationed in 1944.

Just 30 percent of Flagler County students know the purpose of a constitution, understand the separation of powers, the concept of the rule of law, the reasons colonists rebelled against Britain, the Supreme Court ruling that ratified Jim Crow or what FDR meant by a New Deal. Students in a U.S. government course are required to take the new exam that covers everything from landmark Supreme Court cases to influential documents in American history to basic principles about how government functions.

Flagler Schools’ Budget Is Millions Short from 10 Years Ago as District Is Forced to Shift Tax Dollars to Private Schools

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Unlike any other local government, the Flagler County school district's tax rate has dwindled since 1995, cutting into local budgetary needs. Unlike any other local government, the school board does not get to set its own tax rate. It's set by legislators in Tallahassee. The district is opeating with fewer dollars this year than it had 10 years ago as a result. (© FlaglerLive)

Historically lower taxes it has no control over, a state funding formula that cheats it of 5 cents of every dollar it sends the state, and a state-required $6 million transfer to pay for private education vouchers have again left the Flagler County school district scrambling to balance its budget. But it’s been an annual erosion of local dollars, entirely at the expense of public education.

Less Than Half of Flagler’s 10th Graders Pass English, Worst in 11 Years; FPC Down 9 Points, to 45%

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Tenth grade passing rates of level 3 or better in reading since 2011. The assessment has changed over that time span, but the scoring method has not. (© FlaglerLive)

On the heels of a year and a half of a dysfunctional school board riven by ideological battles, only 49 percent of Flagler County’s 10th graders last school year were reading English at grade level, the lowest proportion in over a decade and a decline from 53 percent in 2021. Flagler’s 10th grade reading scores have declined every year since 2018.

Flagler Voters’ Message to Poison Peddlers

August 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 90 Comments

From left, Janet McDonald, Jill Woolbright, Ed Danko, Joe Mullins, Will Furry and Christy Chong. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler voters made damn sure that white nationalists, bigots and liars like Joe Mullins, Jill Woolbright and Janet McDonald had a short and embarrassing shelf life. If Flagler is solidly conservative, it remains sanely, moderately so for now, even for a one-party county with just three Democrats among 33 elected officials on six government boards.

6th Grade Switch to Middle School Suddenly Makes 10 Year Old Ineligible for Bus Ride, Forcing 2-Mile Walk

August 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

When the Flagler County School Board switched 6th graders to middle school starting this month, it meant the same 6th graders who would have previously been eligible for bus rides to school no longer are, creating a dilemma–and a safety concern–for the parent of a 10-year-old child in Palm Coast’s B-Section.

The Passion of The Woolbright

August 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 81 Comments

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Enraptured in the language of white Christian nationalists, Jill Woolbright, the Flagler County School Board member, has turned her campaign for re-election into a crusade against her own, to eradicate “evil spirits” and clean house at the district of people who don’t look or pray like her, or share her pathological sexual obsessions. Academics can wait.

School Board’s Massaro and Conklin Denounce Woolbright ‘s ‘Disgusting and Despicable’ Zealotry

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

"I am a lifelong Republican," Cheryl Massaro said, "but I'm a moderate." (© FlaglerLive)

At the end of Tuesday’s Flagler County School Board meeting, Cheryl Massaro and Colleen Conklin, without naming her, sharply denounced fellow-Board member Jill Woolbright characterizing them and district staffers as “evil” in one of three campaign speeches she delivered at churches last weekend.

Arming School Staffers on Flagler’s Campuses Raises Questions of Cost, Training and Numbers

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

armed civilians in schools

The Flagler County School Board is considering whether to add armed civilians, possibly school staffers, on school campuses, but a workshop on the issue raised almost as many questions as it answered, with numerous issues still undecided–if the board were to go that way. That, too, is uncertain for now.

School Board’s Jill Woolbright Says She’s in ‘Satanic Warfare’ Against ‘Evil Spirits’ at School District

August 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 88 Comments

School Board member Jill Woolbright, flanked by New Way Church Pastor Richard Summerl;in and his wife Kimberly Summerlin during a prayer-endorsement after Woolbright campaigned for seven minutes before the congregation during a service over the weekend.

Flagler County School Board incumbent Jill Woolbright, who is in a non-partisan race against Sally Hunt to be decided in the Aug. 23 election, says God placed her on the school board, that she is involved in “satanic warfare,” and that, in a reference to others on the school board and at the district office, she has “felt the evil spirits around me.”

Mothers Behind Book-Banning Campaign Claim Their First Amendment Rights Are Being Violated

August 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Students, teachers and parents protested an effort, partially successful, by Flagler County School Board member Jill Woolbright last fall to ban "All Boys Aren't Blue" and three other titles from school libraries. "All Boys" was removed. The other three were restored. (© FlaglerLive)

The self-dubbed Mama Bears filed a federal lawsuit alleging that by not being allowed to read sexually explicit material aloud at school board meetings, they themselves are being censored.

Schools Scramble to Fill Vacant Slots, Including 108 in Flagler District, as Enrollment Appears Up

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

At Insian Trails Middle School on Wednesday. (Flagler Schools)

Flagler County has 108 job postings as of today, according to its openings advertised online, including 32 instructional positions, among them six teaching openings at Buddy Taylor Middle School, six at Matanzas High School, and four at Flagler Palm Coast High School.

An Open Letter to Flagler County Voters Against Extremism, Buffoonery and Their Disturbing Candidates

August 6, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

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The abuse of position and process (particularly by school board members) is egregious. The wasted hours in all three elected boards’ meetings (school board, county commission, Palm Coast council) on ridiculous, petty–or worse: imagined–problems has been sickening to endure, Jake Scully argues in a plea for well-researched votes in the coming elections.

School Board’s Colleen Conklin Rips Into ‘Inappropriate’ Developers’ Involvement in Policy Negotiations

August 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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The long-simmering tension between the school district and home builders surfaced today as Conklin addressed it directly, challenging the way developers have sought to influence public policy in the county and on the school board.

Solution in Sight in Months-Long Conflict Over School Construction as Halt to Big Developments Looms

August 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler County School Board Chairman Trevor Tucker, flanked by Board members Janet McDonald, left, and Colleen Conklin, making his compromise proposal that may resolve a long-running conflict pitting the county on one side and the school board on the other--with cities largely caught in between--over the way builders and developers are charged for school construction. (© FlaglerLive)

A compromise proposal suggested by School Board member Trevor Tucker may resolve a conflict that has divided Flagler County government and the School Board, along with some of the county’s cities, over how builders and developers are billed for school construction. Absent a resolution, more than a dozen large developments could be brought to a halt.

Matanzas High School Addition Leads $165 Million in Planned School Construction Over Next 5 Years

August 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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The Flagler County school district is tentatively projecting to spend $18 million for an expansion of Matanzas High School, $70 million for a new middle school and $77 million for a new high school over the next five years, not including additional millions for ongoing maintenance.

Sally Hunt, Flagler County School Board Candidate: The Live Interview

August 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Sally Hunt. (© FlaglerLive)

Sally Hunt is challenging incumbent Jill Woolbright in the District 1 race for Flagler County School Board. They are among seven candidates running for three seats on the school board. 

Jill Woolbright, Flagler County School Board Candidate: The Live Interview

August 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Jill Woolbright. (© FlaglerLive)

Jill Woolbright is the incumbent candidate in the District 1 race for Flagler County School Board, running against Sally Hunt. Seven candidates are running for three school board seats.

Open Enrollment for Flagler Youth Orchestra’s After-School Strings Program

August 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

One of the Flagler Youth Orchestra's five ensembles in rehearsal just before a performance at the Flagler Auditorium last April. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Youth Orchestra Strings Program, a special project of the Flagler County School District, is launching its eighteenth season, with ongoing open enrollment for all Flagler County students ages 8 and up. An open house and information session will be held August 31 at the Flagler Auditorium.

What We Can Learn from Apartheid-Era Book Bans in South Africa

July 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Books are often targeted when they are sympathetic to the oppressed.

The rise in attempts to ban and censor books in America–and in Flagler County–in 2022 looks an awful lot like what South African censors did during apartheid. It’s as though would-be American censors have taken a page directly from the South African censors’ playbook, setting out to squash political dissent and silence social debate.

DeSantis and the Mis-Education of Florida’s Schoolchildren. With Test for Extra Credit.

July 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Ron DeSantis wants the young ’uns educated with no unfair criticism of the Greatest Country that Ever Was. To that end, he’s bringing in a curriculum from Hillsdale College, a righteous institution where they love the Lord, the flag, and capitalism — not necessarily in that order.

Four School Boards Sued Over Enforcing ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law, Charging Violation of 1st Amendment

July 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

This sign and others like it are now banned in Florida public schools. (© FlaglerLive)

The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Orlando, seeks to block the school boards in Orange, Indian River, Duval and Palm Beach counties from carrying out the law (HB 1557), which restricts instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in classrooms. The lawsuit charges the law is unconstitutional.

Lance Alred, Flagler County School Board Candidate: The Live Interview

July 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Lance Alred. (© FlaglerLive)

Lance Alred is one of seven candidates in three races for Flagler County School Board in the Aug. 23 primary election, one of three in the District 2 race. He faces Will Furry and Courtney VandeBunte. All Flagler voters, regardless of party affiliation and address, may cast a ballot in these races.

Christy Chong, Flagler County School Board Candidate: The Live Interview

July 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Christy Chong. (Kirk Chong)

Christy Chong is one of seven candidates in three races for Flagler County School Board in the Aug. 23 primary election, opposing incumbent Trevor Tucker. all Flagler voters, regardless of party affiliation and address, may cast a ballot in these races.

Trevor Tucker, Flagler County School Board Candidate: The Live Interview

July 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Trevor Tucker is one of seven candidates in three races for Flagler County School Board in the Aug. 23 primary election. He is opposed by Christy Chong. All Flagler voters, regardless of party affiliation and address, may cast a ballot in these races.

The Music Plays On: School Board Renews Flagler Youth Orchestra, with Call for Indefinite Support

July 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Supporters of the Flagler Youth Orchestra filled the school board's meeting room Tuesday evening. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board Tuesday evening voted 5-0 to renew funding for the Flagler Youth Orchestra for an 18th year after hearing pleas and plaudits from some 20 community members, former and current participants and parents.

Curtain Calls for Flagler Youth Orchestra as School Board Frets Either Encores or Coda

July 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

In extremis? FYO (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board this evening votes on whether to renew the Flagler Youth Orchestra for its 18th year. Renewal was not in question in previous years, as it has been this year. A former superintendent, parents, community members at large, current and former FYO student participants sent numerous letters and emails to school board members.

Flagler Schools Get B as Florida Resumes Grading, But Rymfire-Buddy Taylor-FPC Pipeline Is a C

July 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

For Indian Trails Middle School, the streak continues. (© FlaglerLive)

After two years of Covid, when the state did not grade schools and districts, Flagler County schools earned a grade of B this year, with only three of its schools earning an A and four earning a C. Two earned a B. It was a middling performance coming off the disruptions of the pandemic and a decline from the A the district had scored in 2019.

Developments Could Stall If County, Cities and District Can’t Agree on School Construction Payments

July 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, left, chaired this morning's Intergovernmental Agreement Oversight Committee meeting intended to outline the various governments' positions on the collection of fees from builders for school construction. Those in attendance were County Commissioners Dave Sullivan and Andy Dance, Bunnell City Commissioners Bob Barnes and John Rogers, School Board members Janet McDonald and Colleen Conklin, School Board Chairman Trevor Tucker, and Palm Coast City Council member Nick Klufas. (© FlaglerLive)

As they hurtle toward an arbitrary Aug. 31 deadline that could potentially bring some local development to a halt, the Flagler County School Board on one side and the county, Palm Coast and Bunnell on the other remain in sharp opposition over how to collect money developers owe the district to ensure there are enough schools for incoming students.

Portables Are Back: Buddy Taylor Middle Takes Delivery of 7 Classrooms, Leased for $105,000

July 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

A crew this morning worked on installing water and sewer connections to seven used portables just delivered to Buddy Taylor Middle School, re-starting a trend the district had hoped to avoid. (© FlaglerLive)

After an absence of 14 years, Buddy Taylor Middle School this week was again the scene of installations of portable classrooms, a trend the Flagler County school district has been trying to avoid by planning for new construction. But wrangles with the county and cities over school financing is increasing the likelihood of more portables ahead.

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