Trout Creek Academy PTO announced Dr. Patrick Carmichael as the new interim principal Tuesday after Principal Katie O’Connell was put on administrative leave with pay as of May 20 amid an investigation into accusations of “inappropriate conduct.”
News4JAX took a closer look at the events that led to the investigation of a St. Johns County principal accused of “inappropriate conduct.”
The principal of Trout Creek Academy in St. Johns County has been placed on administrative leave with pay following an investigation into “inappropriate conduct,” according to letters from the St. Johns County School District obtained by News4JAX on Wednedsay.
In February, the St. Johns County School District said it was bracing for the potential of a big budget gap next school year.
St. Johns Technical High School (SJTHS) will join with St. Augustine High School (SAHS) beginning in the 2026–27 school year, creating a new Early Career Program aimed at expanding academic and career options for students.
Counselors will be at Patriot Oaks Academy on Wednesday morning to support the school community following the death of a 12-year-old student who was hit by a car while riding a motorized bike.
The St. Johns County School District is bracing for the potential of a big budget gap next school year. The district thinks it could be in a deficit between $10 and $15 million for the 2026-2027 school year.
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office has responded to a mother’s concerns about how the department handled an investigation into a school bus altercation that left her son injured.
A St. Johns County mother is preparing to sue the school district after she expressed frustration with how officials handled an attack on her son’s school bus.
In St. Johns County, a fifth-grade boy from Wards Creek Elementary School was injured after being attacked on a school bus, prompting his mother to demand answers about the disciplinary actions taken against the attacker.
The St. Johns County School District is one of dozens of districts across the state that recently received notices from Mater Academy, a charter school based in Miami.
The St. Johns County School Board has filed a lawsuit seeking court orders to stop a local parent from bullying and harassing school employees, including a teacher and principal at Switzerland Point Middle School
The St. Johns County School District held the first of two town halls Monday to present proposed rezoning tied to two new K–8 schools planned to open in the 2026–27 school year and to gather feedback from parents.
The St. Johns County School Board is set to vote this week on proposed updates to its sexual harassment policy, aiming to strengthen protections and clarify procedures for filing complaints.
New St. Johns County Superintendent Dr. Brennan Asplen said the district is already making adjustments as it looks to the future. That includes a new communications app for parents and a new school bus tracking app.
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office and the St. Johns County School District are teaming up to educate students about e-bike safety.
Dr. Brennan Asplen has taken the reins of the St. Johns County School District as its new superintendent, and this will be his first school year with the district. We want to know what questions St. Johns County parents have for their district’s new leader.
Stepping into a new position as St. Johns County’s superintendent comes with its share of responsibilities and goals for the upcoming year.
A week after the four St. Johns County superintendent finalists had in-person interviews and met the community, the School Board is expected to reveal its choice Tuesday to be the district’s next leader.
St. Johns County Schools is holding in-person interviews on Tuesday, and the community will have the opportunity to meet them face to face.
St. Johns County Schools is nearing the final step in selecting its next superintendent. All four candidates will be interviewed in person on Tuesday, and the community will have the opportunity to meet them face to face.
The St. Johns County School District (SJCSD) offers Controlled Open Enrollment (COE) for families seeking school placement outside their home-zoned school. Applications will be available from April 28-May 15.
As the Florida Legislature considers two bills that could slash funding for popular acceleration programs in public schools, students, parents and school district leaders are sharing vocal opposition to the changes.
As the fastest-growing county in Northeast Florida, St. Johns County faces unique challenges that the new superintendent will need to address.
Some St. Johns County students had their personal information accessed by unauthorized personnel in a data breach of PowerSchool, a global provider of educational software and service, the district said.
The St. Johns County School District (SJCSD) offers Controlled Open Enrollment (COE) for families seeking school placement outside their home-zoned school. Applications are available from Feb. 3 to Feb. 21, 2025.
A student at Fruit Cove Middle School was hit by a car Wednesday morning near the school, according to a spokesperson for the St. Johns County School District.
The St. Johns County School District (SJCSD) is steadily expanding its campus landscape to tackle the massive growth the county has experienced over the last few years.
St. Johns County School District Superintendent Tim Forson announced on Thursday he will retire at the end of the school year.
To make up for one of the days students missed when two hurricanes shut down schools in Northeast Florida, the St. Johns County School District is having students come to school on Veterans Day, the district announced on Wednesday.
The St. Johns County School District secured a resolution agreement with the U.S. Department of Education‘s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Monday after the federal agency raised compliance concerns with the district’s restraint practices on students with disabilities.
The St. Johns County School District will hold a meeting Thursday to discuss a pair of referendums that will appear on the November ballot.
The St. Johns County School District will host four town halls in the upcoming weeks to talk to community members and voters about two referendums on the November ballot intended to funnel more money into the school system.
The St. Johns County School School Board will hold a special meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday to decide whether to pull four books from library shelves.
The school board ultimately decided not to pull the books from shelves but instead, further restrict them to higher grade levels.
More than 7,400 St. Johns County residents who work in education, healthcare and law enforcement are unable to afford a home in the county, according to a study presented on Tuesday to the St. Johns County Board of Commissioners.
The St. Johns County School District reached an agreement Tuesday with the St. Johns Educational Support Association (ESA) to increase pay for school bus drivers, custodians, teacher aides and other support staff who help keep the school system running.
The St. Johns County School District said its working to exterminate some bugs from its adoption of a new, remote panic alert system in response to the passage of Alyssa’s Law.
As part of a years-long probe into how the St. Johns County School District imposed its dress code policy, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights worked with the district to circulate a questionnaire to groups of students at five district schools.
A record number of St. Johns County School District employees filed May resignations, as the district and teachers’ union remain at an impasse over pay negotiations.
The St. Johns County School District and teachers union continue to be at odds over pay raises after months of back-and-forth.
After his son was injured in a violent attack at Switzerland Point Middle School, Mark Alvelo spoke out to the St. Johns County School Board during its meeting Monday, calling for action.
The St. Johns County School District is planning to push the construction of a new K-8 school in the RiverTown neighborhood back another year.
The St. Johns County School District on Monday announced that school start and dismissal times will change next school year for some K-8 academies.
After a five-year legal battle, a sharply divided federal appeals court Friday upheld a St. Johns County School Board policy that prevented a transgender male student from using boys’ bathrooms at a high school.
After a five-year legal battle, a sharply divided federal appeals court Friday upheld a St. Johns County School Board policy that prevented a transgender male student from using boys’ bathrooms at a high school.
Teachers and the St. Johns County School District are at a stand-still over pay negotiations.
St. Johns County teachers have rejected a proposed pay raise, with many saying the raise wasn’t big enough.
Local students have been back in classrooms for about a month now, but school districts are still having trouble filling teacher vacancies.
Though the St. Johns County School Board scrubbed the district’s dress code of gendered language last year, the enforcement of the code still almost exclusively affects girls, according to records obtained by News4JAX.
After the St. Johns County School District overhauled its dress code policy last year, some parents tell News4JAX that their students are still receiving unfair violations.
The St. Johns County School District superintendent is asking for patience from the community as about 50,000 students prepare to go back to school Wednesday morning.
A plan presented Tuesday morning to the school board calls for more than $1 million more than last year to go towards protecting schools and increasing pay for armed guards.
Two teenagers got a bull shark from a stranger who caught it in Mayport last week and then they gutted it and stored the dead fish with ice overnight at a friend’s house before hoisting it from the rafters at Ponte Vedra High School as a senior prank, according to an incident report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission obtained Wednesday by News4JAX.
PETA said it sent a letter to St. Johns County School District Superintendent Tim Forson on Tuesday offering lessons on kindness to animals after a dead shark was hung from the rafters at Ponte Vedra High School last week.
A change.org petition started by an animal advocacy group is getting shared online that seeks signatures in support of seeking criminal charges against five students accused of hoisting a dead shark above a stairwell at Ponte Veda High School.
A dead shark was found hanging from the rafters above a staircase at Ponte Vedra High School on Thursday morning, according to the St. Johns County School District.
The five-member St. Johns County School Board approved advertising seven of the nine proposed changes to the school attendance zones of the county’s rapidly developing northside.
The St. Johns County School District is postponing the construction of a new school in the northwest part of the county after the school board voted Tuesday night to reject three multi-million dollar bids because they were too costly.
Parents in one St. Johns County neighborhood are upset about a new proposed rezoning plan for students.
The head coach and an assistant coach of the Ponte Vedra High School girls’ lacrosse team resigned, after they were suspended for one game for berating the team for eating cake following a game, the St. Johns County School District confirmed Wednesday.
The St. Johns County School District unveiled a new rezoning plan Tuesday morning to address overcrowding in schools in the northern part of the county.
The woman who helped launch a federal Title IX investigation into the St. Johns County School District is now running to serve on its board.
The St. Johns County School District is changing how it reports positive coronavirus cases in its classrooms.
St. Johns County School District officials said Tuesday a new school is in the works for the northwest part of the county.
The Friday edition of the St. Johns County School District’s COVID-19 report showed 515 students were confirmed positive cases of the coronavirus and 161 were quarantined.
The St. Johns County Programs of Choice High School Showcase scheduled for Thursday was canceled due to concerns over the rise in coronavirus cases, the school district announced.
There was a dramatic increase in the number of reported positive cases of COVID-19 in schools after students around Northeast Florida returned to class last week after winter break.
The St. Johns County School District is surveying stakeholders on how to spend federal COVID-19 relief funds.
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Some St. Johns County students will have to start paying for school meals again, according to a message sent to families from the St. Johns County School District Director of Food and Nutrition Services Sean Prevatt.
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Between supply chain issues, food shortages and higher demand, there is a problem nationwide getting meals to students.
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A recent letter from the National School Boards Association to President Joe Biden is being met with backlash from state and local school board officials.
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With nearly 300 staff vacancies in the St. Johns County School District, local leaders are working to recruit new hires as the district continues its trend of rapid growth.
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After a group of students at Bartram Trail High School was seen on cellphone and social media videos hurling anti-gay hate speech at fellow students, the St. Johns County School District confirmed that disciplinary actions were taken since the Sept. 17 rally.
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Pine Island Academy, which opened this year in Nocatee, has been shaken by the deaths of two employees, including a teacher who died of COVID-19.
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The St. Johns County Commission and St. Johns County School Board on Thursday got their first look at four proposed plans for how to redraw the county’s voting districts.
The debate over face masks in the St. Johns County School District is still being fought after a Pedro Menendez High School student died last week.
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As the St. Johns County School District struggles to fill substitute teacher positions, employees from the district office have been forced to step into classrooms to replace teachers who may be out sick or quarantining.
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Last year, if teachers had to miss work to get a coronavirus test or were forced to quarantine due to possible exposure, their salary was covered by funding from the federal government’s Families First Coronavirus Response Act. But since that expired, districts have been left to figure things out on their own.
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