DR. DIANA GREENE

A special meeting of the Duval County School Board has been postponed, as the district continues to investigate misconduct by multiple teachers at Douglas Anderson.

Duval County School Board members plan to meet Friday at 2 p.m. to continue a discussion about recent misconduct issues at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and about the district’s methods for reporting instances of employee misconduct to various state agencies.

The Duval County Schools Superintendent’s job could be in jeopardy, according to three News4JAX I-TEAM sources familiar with the matter. This comes amid scandal at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, which saw a longtime teacher, Jeffrey Clayton, arrested last month and charged with lewd behavior involving a student.

The Commissioner of Education sent a letter to the Duval Schools’ Superintendent, Dr. Diana Greene, “strongly urging” that the district needs to end its participation in a CDC youth-risk behavior survey (YRBS) and instead participate in a new one developed by the state.

DCPS Superintendent, Dr. Diana Greene, was given an annual evaluation by the school board Tuesday.

The Duval County School Board on Monday night voted in favor of a critical new plan designed to help students and parents in case of a mass casualty event on a school’s campus.

News4JAX sat down one-on-one with Duval County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Diana Greene to ask about this year’s unique challenges, including staffing and politics.

Three parents whose children attend Mandarin Middle School want a teacher and two administrators fired over allegations of racism, violence and threatened school shootings.

The mother of a student at Jacksonville’s Mandarin Middle School announced she will sue Duval County Public Schools, MMS’s principal, and its dean over a series of alleged incidents of racial discrimination and retaliation.

The Duval County’s school superintendent reviewed the school year that just ended and answered questions about the upcoming school year during a news conference Monday morning.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – This week, Duval County Public Schools teachers will find out if they will have to move to other classrooms or switch to a different school to balance enrollment issues within local schools. In an interview Monday on The Morning Show, Superintendent Dr. Diana Greene explained those assignments are being decided this week. Fortunately, she said, the school district will not have to lay off any teachers even as enrollment challenges crop up during the coronavirus pandemic. “That way we don’t have classrooms with nine students and the classroom across from it has 17 or 18. “We will be transferring teachers, or as we call it, ‘surplusing’ teachers," the superintendent said.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A national poll published by USA Today this week found that 20% of teachers said they are unlikely to go back to school if their classrooms reopen in the fall. That could mean more than 1,500 Duval County teachers might not come back, if the USA Today survey results come to fruition. Terrie Brady, President of Duval Teachers United, said Thursday she doesn’t think there will be that kind of mass exodus of teachers leaving if the district chooses to reopen campuses. The USA Today poll also found that nearly two-thirds of teachers said they haven’t been able to properly do their jobs since most instruction was moved online. A separate USA Today poll of parents with at least one child in grades K-12 found that 6 in 10 would likely explore at-home learning options.

I’ll never forget the sacrifices you are making to protect the health and safety of many others.”High school seniors said the announcement gives them hope. Graduating from Mandarin High School is something Aaliyah Rocourt and Daizha Brown have looked forward to for years. At least one other school district in Northeast Florida has already decided to cancel traditional graduations. The St. Johns County School District said it is pursuing a virtual option for graduations to be done before the end of May. The Nassau County School District told News4Jax last week that it was still looking at different options for graduations.

Following the announcement, DCPS announced plans to deploy a new home education program starting on Monday — Duval HomeRoom. The district will also use the same bus drivers to help deliver school lunches to students in need. “Saturday and Sunday, we will endeavor to close the technology gap with delivery of laptops and air cards to high school and middle school students who need them. Monday will be an orientation to online learning day and a day for the district to assess where they are with student connectivity. The one thing the remote plan doesn’t address is how parents can supervise their children during the day.