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Why Is the President Undermining Libraries and Museums?

April 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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A few weeks ago, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), adding to a growing list of illegal efforts to bypass Congress and abolish entire government agencies. All staff at the agency were placed on administrative leave on March 31. IMLS is an independent federal agency that provides crucial financial support to America’s 125,000 public, school, academic, and special libraries and museums nationwide.

Matanzas High School Student Lands a Punch on Deputy Breaking Up a Fight

April 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A Matanzas High School student was arrested after striking a sheriff's deputy during a fight with another student on Wednesday. (© FlaglerLive)

N.L., a 16-year-old Matanzas High School student, faces a felony charge of battery against a law enforcement officer after landing what appears to be an inadvertent punch on a school resource deputy attempting to break up a fight between N.L. and another student. 

Trump Names Derek Barrs to Transportation Department Post; He Will Leave Flagler School Board

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Derek Barrs this morning in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Less than five months after Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed him to a Flagler County School Board seat, where his presence helped restore a level of stability that had been lacking for two years, Derek Barrs will almost certainly leave the board for an appointment as administrator to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Lawless Persecution of Mahmoud Khalil Is a Threat to Free Speech Everywhere

March 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Without a warrant or charges, plainclothes Department of Homeland Security agents forced their way into Columbia University’s student housing and detained Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil, who had demonstrated against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. They then shipped him to an immigration jail in Louisiana, impeding his access to attorneys and visits from family. Khalil is a lawful U.S. permanent resident who hasn’t been charged with any crime. Khalil’s fate — and the larger battle over the First Amendment — concerns all of us.

Stetson Opera Theatre Presents Mozart’s ‘Marriage of Figaro’ Friday and Sunday

March 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A scene from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" from the Victrola book of the opera (1917).

Stetson University’s School of Music invites the community to experience Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beloved opera, The Marriage of Figaro. The Stetson Opera Theatre will stage this classic comic opera with performances on Friday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, March 23, at 3 p.m., at University High School in Orange City, Florida.

Anti-DEI Rules Are Gutting Educators’ Free Speech Rights

March 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion have continued in the form of a “Dear Colleague” letter from the Department of Education to educational institutions – from preschools through colleges and universities.. The directive the letter infringes on free speech, misunderstands the law and undermines education.

Stetson Survey Finds Puerto Rico and D.C. Get Statehood Support, Canada and Greenland Do Not

March 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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With the current debate over U.S. expansion, a new survey by the Center for Public Opinion Research (CPOR) at Stetson University finds that Americans remain deeply divided on the prospect of adding a 51st state if it’s not Puerto Rico or Washington, D.C.

University of Chicago’s Tony Banout, Freedom of Expression Expert, Speaks at Stetson March 26

March 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Tony Banout. (Interfaith America)

As academic freedom and freedom of expression become flashpoints on college campuses nationwide, Stetson University will host a national expert March 26 to speak about the importance of free inquiry and expression. Tony Banout, Executive Director of the University of Chicago’s Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, will give a talk entitled “Why is Wrongheaded, Immoral, and Offensive Speech Protected on Campus and Constitutionally?”

Read Across Flagler Event at Central Park Brings Out the District’s Own Student Novelists

March 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Their first novels already published, they're working on their second. From left, Caleb Hathaway and MacKenzie Wheat of Flagler Palm Coast High School, and Abbigail of Matanzas High School. They were featured authors at last Thursday's Read Across Flagler event at Palm Coast's Central Park. (© FlaglerLive)

The second annual Read Across Flagler at Palm Coast’s Central Park, an event organized by the school district’s media specialists, focused on the district’s own authors , including three high school students who have already published their first novel and are working on their second. There was a petting zoo, a balloon art station and two tables-full of books being given away, but the focus was on the writers.

Defying Science, Florida Lawmakers Prepare to Scrap Later Start Time for High Schools

March 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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With school districts across the state expressing support, Florida senators Monday started moving forward with a bill that would repeal requirements aimed at later daily start times in many high schools. Lawmakers in 2023 approved the requirements, citing a need for older students to get more sleep. [The need is supported by extensive research that points to better academic performance and better health.] The requirements are slated to take effect in 2026, but as the deadline has neared, districts have said they are struggling to comply.

Federal Judge Clears Way for Publishers’ Lawsuit Against Florida and Volusia Boards of Education Over Banned Books

March 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

One of many displays about banned books at The Lynx, a bookshop in Gainesville. (© FlaglerLive)

With major publishing companies and authors arguing a 2023 state law violates First Amendment rights, a federal judge Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against members of the State Board of Education over the removal of school library books. U.S. District Judge Carlos Mendoza, appointed by President Obama, rejected a state motion to dismiss the case, which also names as defendants members of the Orange County and Volusia County school boards.

FTC Launches Accelerated GED Program at Carver Center

March 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

South Bunnell's community strongly identifies with the Carver Center. (© FlaglerLive)

In a significant stride toward enhancing adult education, Flagler Technical College (FTC) has unveiled an accelerated GED program at the G.W. Carver Community Center in Bunnell. This initiative is a cornerstone of FTC’s broader mission to expand adult learning opportunities across Flagler County as the adult education component of Flagler County Schools. Classes are already underway, having begun in full swing for the Winter ’25 school semester. Classes are open enrollment, so students may enroll anytime throughout the semester.

No, You May Not Discipline a Teacher for Personal Facebook Posts, Court Rules

February 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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A Florida appeals court Friday sided with a now-retired Duval County math teacher who argued his speech rights were violated when he was disciplined for personal Facebook posts. A three-judge panel of the 5th District Court of Appeal overturned a decision by the Duval County School Board to suspend Thomas Caggiano without pay for three days and to issue a reprimand.

DeSantis’s Know-Nothing Assault on Florida’s Public Universities

February 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Jeanette Nuñez, until recently lieutenant governor, is becoming interim, and likely permanent, president of Florida International University. (Photo via FIU)

DeSantis, the lame duck and failed presidential candidate, may have lost much of his hold on the Legislature but, given that he appoints state university trustees, our institutions must still suffer his anti-intellectualism, his spite, and his obsession with “woke.”

Flagler School Board Quietly Settled with Ex-Attorney Kristy Gavin for $160,000, and with Paul Peacock for $100,000

February 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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The Flagler County School Board, operating almost entirely out of the public eye, settled disputes and lawsuits with former Board Attorney Kristy Gavin last July for $160,000, with former principal Paul Peacock in October for $100,000, and with former Exceptional Student Education director Martha von Mering in October for $19,500. The School Board at no point openly discussed any of the three cases.

Who Do You Think You Are? Here’s Why You Should See ‘The Niceties’ at CRT

February 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Julia Davidson Truilo as Janine and Phillipa Rose as Zoe in City Repertory Theatre’s production of “The Niceties.” (Mike Kitaif) tristam

“The Niceties,” which opens tonight at City Repertory Theatre, is familiar to our ideologically poisoned times, raising questions about whether there is such a thing as objective truth. It subverts assumptions about American and Black history, generational divides, and power. It will make you angry only if you’re not honest with yourself as it also subverts your own assumptions about who you think you are. 

DeSantis Wants to Move Ringling Circus Museum to New College

February 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The Ringling at FSCU. (Facebook)

In his budget proposal released earlier this month, DeSantis included language that would transfer the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Ringlings’ Ca’d’Zan mansion, and the Ringling Circus Museum, located less than a mile from the New College campus in Sarasota. 

Paul Renner Is Appointed to Universities’ Board of Governors

February 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Rep. Paul Renner, who represents Flagler County, is looking for economies of scale in the judicial system. (© FlaglerLive)

Gov. Ron DeSantis named former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner to the Florida Board of Governors, supervising the State University System, his office announced. Renner joins former Speaker Jose Oliva and former lawmaker Manny Diaz Jr. as former legislators on the board.

DeSantis Wants Florida Universities to Join War on Undocumented Migrants

February 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Friday that the state’s universities and colleges shouldn’t admit students lacking permanent legal status. Come July 1, university and college students who attended Florida high schools but live in the state without legal permission will have to pay out-of-state tuition under a law, SB 2-C, DeSantis signed Thursday.

‘Impeccable’ 7th Grader Teddy Totten of Christ the King is Flagler County Spelling Bee Champion

February 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Kyle and Andrea Totten with their son Teddy after he won the Flagler County Spelling Bee at the Buddy Taylor-Wadsworth cafeteria Wednesday evening. (© FlaglerLive)

A runner-up in the countywide competition two years ago, 13-year-old Teddy Totten, the son of Kyle and Andrea Totten (the Flagler County judge), won the annual Flagler County Spelling Bee after 12 rounds, conquering words like spritzed, gargoyles, respiratory, impeccable, sorbet and appraisal. Victoria Rivera of Bunnell Elementary is the first runner-up.

Senate Proposal Expands Opportunities for Children with Autism and Their Families

February 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

State Sen. Benjamin Albritton (Screenshot, Florida Channel)

The bill (SB 112) filed by Sen. Gayle Harrell, expands a health care grant program established by the Legislature last year to include free screening, referrals, and related services for autism. It also creates two education-related grant programs: one for specialized summer programs for children with autism and the other to support charter schools exclusively serving them.

Judge Refuses to Release 14-Year-Old Girl Accused of Hateful Death Threats as Her Lawyer Claims She’s in Danger

February 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Josh Davis, the attorney representing L.H., stands in Judge Melissa Distler's courtroom this afternoon, arguing for the release of his client. The judge, who appeared from Tallahassee by zoom, declined to grant the release and set a pre-trial conference to follow up on claims that the girl may be in danger. (© FlaglerLive)

County Judge Melissa Distler today rejected a request by the attorney representing L.H. to release her to her parents, for lack of proof that she is in danger in a youth detention jail in Daytona Beach. The girl, 14, was arrested last week in palm Coast for making death threats laced in homophobic slurs, and for violating her probation. Her attorney argued that the attention the case has drawn, including the posting of her picture, name and address, has led to death threats against her family in Seminole Woods, and threats against the girl in detention.

Bullied Buddy Taylor Student Arrested for Bringing BB Gun to School for ‘Protection’; 4 Student Arrests in a Week

January 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

A 13-year-old Buddy Taylor Middle School Student who said he was being bullied brought a BB gun to school as protection. He was arrested and faces a felony charge. (© FlaglerLive)

A 13-year-old Buddy Taylor Middle School students became the fourth Palm Coast teen in the span of six days to face a felony charge and arrest, in this case for bringing a BB gun in the shape of a Glock. The student said he did so to protect himself against bullies, knowing that school officials would not protect him. 

Want To Be a Health Influencer? Join 2025 MedNexus Innovation Challenge

January 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A team of high school students presenting their innovation to the judges at last year's MedNexus Challenge. (Palm Coast)

The University of North Florida (UNF), in partnership with the City of Palm Coast and Flagler Schools and sponsored by AdventHealth, has announced the 2025 MedNexus Innovation Challenge. This exciting competition offers regional high school students the opportunity to pitch innovative solutions to Florida’s evolving healthcare needs while competing for scholarship prizes. This year’s theme, “Becoming a Health Influencer,” challenges teams of four high school students to develop strategies leveraging social media to positively influence adolescent health.

Two FPC Students Arrested for Texting Joking Death Threats Against Each Oher

January 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Phone trouble. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two students at Flagler Palm Coast High School for sending threats toward each other in a text group chat. The threats were not meant seriously. The felony charges are.

Indian Trails’ Brandy Anderson Is Teacher of the Year, Wadsworth’s Brande Martz Is Employee of the Year

January 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Brandy Anderson, left, and Brande Martz. (Flagler Schools)

Flagler Schools congratulates Ms. Brandy Anderson of Indian Trails Middle School as the 2024-2025 Teacher of the Year and Ms. Brande Martz of Wadsworth Elementary School as the 2024-2025 Employee of the Year. Both will represent Flagler Schools in the Florida Department of Education State Competition later this year.

U.S. News Ranks Daytona State’s Online Bachelor’s Programs Among Best in U.S. for 13th Straight Year

January 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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U.S. News & World Report has ranked Daytona State College’s online Bachelor’s programs among the best in the nation for the 13th straight year. And DSC is again the top-ranked non-university college in the United States.

Should Public Money Fund Religious Charter Schools? Supreme Court Will Decide Constitutionality.

January 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

An online Catholic charter school in Oklahoma is challenging the state's prohibition on spending public money on religions schools. (© FlaglerLive)

In Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond, the Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed with the state’s attorney general, Gentner Drummond, that the charter school board violated state law, the Oklahoma Constitution, and the U.S. Constitution when it allowed St. Isidore, a Catholic online school, to become a charter school.

Behind Daniel Fish Losing Head Football Coach Job at FPC: Major Fumbles in Classroom, and 2nd Reprimand in 14 Months

January 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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Following an internal investigation that ended in December, Daniel Fish, who was fired last week as head football coach at Flagler Palm Coast High School, was the subject of a letter of reprimand for a series of grave failures in his teaching and administrative duties. It was the second disciplinary write-up for Fish in 14 months. He had been the subject of a “letter of caution” in October 2023 following a violent incident that had started among student-athletes in the football team’s unsupervised locker room. He retains his teaching job.

Vincent’s Clubhouse Spurs Opportunities for People with Disabilities, Bridging Needs Beyond School District

January 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Vincent Cona, for whom Vincent's Clubhouse is named, embracing his mother and Vincent's Founder Erica Flores, with her husband, Hector Flores, left, at Tuesday's ribbon-cutting. (© FlaglerLive)

Vincent’s Clubhouse Enrichment Center at Palm Coast’s European Village is an evidence-based program focused on vocational and life skills training, personal development, hygiene, financial skills, marketplace skills, and literacy for adults and younger people. But it was not until late last year, after years of evolution and growth, that Vincent’s Clubhouse’s nomadic years ended with the opening of its permanent home, a 1,600-square-foot facility–what would otherwise be a shopfront–at European Village, with a faculty of five and 20 adult “members” enrolled.

Childhood Vaccination Rates Are Slipping in ‘Health Freedom’ Florida and Other States with Exemptions

January 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Pediatricians in states with high exemption rates, such as Florida and Georgia, say they’re concerned by what they see — declining immunization levels for kindergartners, which could lead to a resurgence in vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles. The Florida Department of Health reported nonmedical exemption rates as high as 50% for children in some areas.

Senator Files Bill to Scrap Later Start Times for High School Students, Putting Transportation Ahead of Student Needs

January 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Transportation issues, not student health or best practices--which call for later start times for older students--are driving the renewed debate on school schedules. (© FlaglerLive)

With Florida school districts facing a 2026 deadline, a Senate Republican on Friday filed a proposal that would repeal requirements aimed at later start times for many high schools. The proposal would benefit Flagler County schools, where officials in 2023 devised a new start times, but in the opposite direction. Supporters of later start times have argued that the changes would help high-school students get more sleep. But the requirements have faced concerns from school districts about issues such as bus schedules.

Judge Scraps Biden’s LGBTQ Protections and Bans Requiring Teachers to Use Students’ Chosen Pronouns

January 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Hundreds of people gathered at Washington Square Park in New Orleans on March 31, 2023, for a march to mark Transgender Day of Visibility. (Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator)

A federal district court judge struck down President Joe Biden’s effort to protect transgender students and make other changes to Title IX, ruling the U.S. Department of Education violated teachers’ rights by requiring them to use transgender students’ names and pronouns. The ruling, which applies nationwide, came as a major blow to the Biden administration in its final days and to LGBTQ+ advocates. President-elect Donald Trump took aim at transgender people in a culture war-focused campaign.

University Board Nominee Calls Career Women ‘Medicated, Meddlesome and Quarrelsome.” DeSantis Defends Him.

January 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Warm and fuzzy for sexism. Ron DeSantis in Jacksonville today. (Florida Channel)

Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his appointment to the University of West Florida Board of Trustees of a political scientist who claims that encouraging women to prioritize their careers has led to the decline of family life. In speeches, essays, articles, and interviews Scott Yenor details his views against same-sex relationships, including that LGBTQ+ practices bring “dreaded diseases,” and labeling career-oriented women as “medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome.”

Matanzas High Senior Beats the Buzzer in a Game to Remember

January 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

MHS game Pirates Senior Haley Olson

Pirates Senior Haley Olson entered a varsity game for the first time ever. Although a foul by visiting Trinity Christian (Deltona, Florida) sent Haley to the line late, her first points ever would actually come moments later in buzzer-beater fashion.

Flagler’s New Legislative Delegation, Meager in Money and Seniority, Tells Locals: Don’t Expect Much

January 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The much-diminished Flagler County Legislative Delegation took its seats for the first time this afternoon in Bunnell, cautioning of a new, poorer day in Tallahassee: Sen. Tom Leek, left, and Rep. Sam Greco. Both are Republicans, each in his first term, though Leek brings eight years of service in the House, where he rose to the appropriations committee chairmanship before he was term-limited. (© FlaglerLive)

The much-diminished Flagler County Legislative Delegation took its seats this afternoon in Bunnell, cautioning local government and organization representatives seeking state aid for numerous projects that it’s a new, poorer day in Tallahassee, where federal Covid aid and legislative seniority are gone. Sen. Tom Leek and Rep. Sam Greco are each in his first term, though Leek brings eight years of service in the House, where he rose to the appropriations committee chairmanship before he was term-limited.

Lawsuit Proceeds After District Allowed Christian, But Not Satan, Banners at Schools

January 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

A federal judge this week allowed a lawsuit to move forward against the Broward County School Board over its refusal to allow banners that said “Satan Loves the First Amendment” at two schools.

As Florida Celebrates Ignorance, SAT Scores and College Rankings Drop, Teachers Flee

December 29, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

The Lynx Bookstore in Gainesville was established to fight book-burners. (© FlaglerLive)

A recent column in the Independent Florida Alligator laments how college professors and other educators who teach disfavored subjects or use certain words are beginning to self-censor. The headline reads, “Think While It’s Still Legal.” Gov. Ron DeSantis and his angry regime aren’t big fans of thinking. Or learning. They hate and fear knowledge.

Spurred by a Middle School Student’s Project, Florida’s Dixie County Leaps Into Electric School Buses

December 27, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Dixie County’s new electric school buses plugged in and charging up. Dixie now has an entire fleet of electric buses.

The Dixie district is so small, it serves approximately 2,000 students across five schools, from pre-K through 12th grade. Still, its 23 buses will collectively travel 270,000 miles annually. By avoiding 228 metric tons of CO2 emissions, the electric buses will improve air quality for the whole community so everyone can breathe easier. Dixie’s electric buses are among the 66,000 projects funded by the $568 billion Biden infrastructure plan, which is considered the nation’s largest investment ever in clean energy.

Justifying Book Bans, Florida Says It’s Not Required to Provide Libraries to School Students. Publishers Disagree.

December 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

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Major publishing companies and authors Friday argued that a federal judge should deny Florida’s request to dismiss a lawsuit over the removal of school library books, saying a controversial state law violates First Amendment rights. Attorneys disputed a state position that selection of school library books is “government speech” and, as a result, is not subject to the First Amendment.

Appeals Court Splits Verdict on School District’s Sunshine Violations in Library Books Case

December 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Indian River school district has the Superintendent of the Year. (Facebook)

An appeals court Wednesday said an Indian River County School Board textbook committee violated the state’s open-government Sunshine Law but a committee that reviewed school library books did not.

School Board’s Furry Defends No-Bid Contract for New Attorney as Ruddy and Ramirez Raise Questions

December 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

School Board Chair Will Furry. (© FlaglerLive)

Janie Ruddy and Lauren Ramirez are discovering that the Flagler County School Board to which they were just elected is its own peculiar governing creature, unlike any local government when it comes to transparency and certain procedures. Exhibit A: its attorney hires. The new board members raised questions about the no-bid hire of the board’s attorney in addition to a separate counsel for the district’s staff work.

Don’t Ban Health-Related Books from Florida Schools, Groups Urge

December 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Flagler Palm Coast High School library a year ago. (© FlaglerLive)

Four groups — the Florida Freedom to Read Project (FFTRP), PEN America, EveryLibrary, and the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCA) — sent a letter to school superintendents and attorneys representing Florida’s school boards urging restraint when it comes to books that include topics such as anatomy, teen pregnancy, and sexual assault.

Matanzas’s Kristin Bozeman Is Principal of the Year, FPC’s Mandy Kraverotis, a Book Advocate, Wins Assistant Honor

December 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Kristen Bozeman of Matanzas High School. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Schools announced that Matanzas High School Principal Kristin Bozeman has been named the 2024 Flagler Schools Principal of the Year, and Flagler Palm Coast High School Assistant Principal Mandy Kraverotis has been recognized as the 2024 Flagler Schools Assistant Principal of the Year.

$405 Million for 2 New Schools by 2033? Not If Flagler District’s Enrollment Continues to Flatline

December 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Not budging but for the district's imagination. (© FlaglerLive)

Since 2007, enrollment in Flagler County’s nine traditional, brick and mortar schools has barely budged even as the county’s population has surged. Enrollment in those schools was 12,580 in 2007. At last count this year, it is 12,478–a slight decline both from 2007 and from the end of last school year, when enrollment rose a bit. The district is projecting a new middle school and a new high school by the early 2030s, for $405 million.

AdventHealth Partners with District’s Project SEARCH to Prepare Disabled Students for Workplace

December 10, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

AdventHealth Palm Coast was recognized by the Flagler Schools Board with a thank you certificate: “In appreciation for outstanding dedication and valuable contributions to the success and growth of young adults” during disability awareness month in October 2024.

Project SEARCH partners Flagler Schools with local businesses, like AdventHealth Palm Coast, and provides students with real-world job experiences that build skills for future careers and confidence in navigating the workplace.

Florida Leads an Authoritarian Assault on Higher Education

December 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

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Authoritarians always love the poorly educated and the mis-educated. The well-educated, the readers, the questioners, those who demand evidence, gather facts, and trust verifiable information (as opposed to propaganda) are a threat. Aspirants to dictatorhood know the first play is destroy education. Nip that critical thinking in the bud. DeSantis is showing the way in Florida.

UNF Gets $800,000 National Parks Service Grant to Restore Coastlines and Battle Erosion

December 7, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

In Beverly Beach today. (© FlaglerLive)

The University of North Florida and National Park Service announced the NPS has awarded nearly $800,000 to UNF to ramp up efforts to restore local coastlines and battle shoreline erosion at three national parks in Florida and Georgia.   

Daytona State College Women’s Soccer Team Wins National Championship

November 27, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The Daytona State College Women’s Soccer team made history Saturday, capturing the 2024 NJCAA Division I National Championship in their debut appearance with a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory over Arizona Western. Freshman midfielder Sienna Gillespie earned the tournament’s Most Outstanding Offensive Player award, while freshman goalie Julianna Trujillo, who secured the winning penalty kick in the semifinal match, was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player.

Florida’s New College Wants to Teach All About ‘Woke’

November 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

New College's new course on wokism in tghe United States compares the social justice movement to a cult. (Facebook)

New College of Florida will soon start taking a scholarly look back at the stampede of “woke” teachings and social consciousness in higher education and politics that prompted protest marches, boycotts and “canceling” of anyone who defied the liberal line or spoke out against this new political correctness on steroids.

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