DUVAL COUNTY SCHOOLS

Food insecurity affects one in five children in Jacksonville and Nemours Children's Heath has partnered with Blessings in a Backpack for a fifth year to deliver healthy meals to children in Duval County Schools.

The Duval County School Board is holding another workshop Tuesday to reveal the results of the community feedback on the search for a new superintendent.

The Duval County School Board will meet on Monday to approve the proposed millage rate and finalize the school year’s budget.

The Duval County School Board hopes to have a permanent superintendent in place by January after the early retirement of Dr. Diana Greene in July. Dr. Dana Kriznar is currently serving as interim superintendent.

The Duval County School Board is asking community members to take part in shaping the future of the school district by sharing their opinions in an eight-question survey that’s now available online.

The Duval County School Board met today to discuss the next steps in the search for a new superintendent, including the timeline and how you can make your voice heard in this process.

A social studies teacher at Ribault High School says the new controversial standards for teaching African American history are so hostile and tainted, he's quitting his job.

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.

Teachers from Hidden Oaks Elementary got a shopping spree as an early holiday gift. A local Office Depot gave them money to spend in-store and help them restock their classrooms and support their students’ education.

The state of Florida is about 9-thousand teachers SHORT for the upcoming school year this fall – that’s according to the state’s largest union of education workers.

United Way of Northeast Florida, the Kids Hope Alliance and Duval County Public Schools announced Thursday a $5.5 million dollar grant for access to free mental health resources for Duval County students.

A local activist is demanding that the Duval County Public Schools remove the names of confederate generals from all public schools in the district. Ben Frazier of the Northside Coalition said the names of prominent confederates should be removed and new names should be established based on feedback from the public. Northside Coalition requests for name changes are being made in conjunction with established Duval County school board policy," Frazier said in a statement. "That policy clearly states that A request to change a schools name can come from students, parents, alumni, or the community serving that school.Frazier said that one of the major goals of the confederacy was to keep and perpetuate slavery, and listed Robert E. Lee High School, J.E.B Middle School, Stonewall Jackson Elementary School, Joseph Finegan Elementary School and Jefferson Davis Middle School as schools that should remove names. The Duval County Public Schools board states that the superintendent or any school board member can submit a written request to the school board to change a name and that community input is desired and highly valued, but the board has final authority over the name of any school.