This Number of the Week is also an #AskJAXTDY. Jacksonville Today reader Jane G. wonders what happens to the money Duval Schools collects from property taxes.

Past and current bus drivers, we want to hear from you. Share your experience driving a school bus and what you think would make the job better.

Jacksonville Today reader Henry T. received a political mailer that caught his eye in late June. In Henry’s eyes, its message against District 3 Duval County School Board incumbent Cindy Pearson was “over-the-top scaremongering.” A second anti-Pearson card soon followed. Henry wrote to us, asking for info on who sent the mailers, which is listed on them as a political action committee called Educated Professionals for Jacksonville.

It has been a bumpy start for some school bus riders in Duval County.

Duval County Schools confirmed that a student from Westside High School was arrested Friday for having a gun and drugs on school grounds.

Demonstrators gathered outside the Southbank headquarters of Duval County Public Schools Wednesday evening as the school board considers whether to rename nine schools with controversial names.

Most ceremonies will be held outdoors with temperature checks and no mask requirement, but there are some exceptions.

The Jacksonville Chamber's board of directors unanimously passed a resolution urging the Duval County School Board to change the names of the six public schools that are currently named after Confederate soldiers.

The Duval County Health Department told DCPS administrators they could not publish this information within the DCPS dashboard according to the letter sent to the Florida Department of Health. Later, the Florida Department of Health said its data was considered confidential citing Florida law. Dr. Mohammed Reza, a Jacksonville infectious disease doctor, compares the situation going on in Florida schools to flying a plane without radar. DCPS is not the only Florida school district struggling to report the coronavirus cases in its schools. The Florida Department of Health communications director later said the agency inadvertently published it and it was a draft version.