ST. JOHNS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT

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.

The News4JAX I-TEAM obtained new records on dress code violations in St. Johns County schools.

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.

Eight controversial books will stay on St. Johns County school shelves despite another heated debate about them on Thursday.

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.

News4JAX on Monday got a firsthand look at St. Johns County’s new Beachside High School before the start of the 2022-23 academic year.

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.

The St. Johns County School Board on Tuesday unanimously approved seven new attendance zones that will go into effect in the 2022-23 school year.

The St. Johns County School District this week announced plans for two more new schools to be built in the next two years.

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 and the teachers union have come to a tentative agreement that could significantly boost teacher pay.

The St. Johns County School District is dropping some of its COVID-19 protocols.

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 Board approved a 5-year plan Tuesday morning.

The St. Johns County School District is surveying stakeholders on how to spend federal COVID-19 relief funds.

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.

Between supply chain issues, food shortages and higher demand, there is a problem nationwide getting meals to students.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

At the close of the first day of school, the St. Johns County School District reported a total of 155 cases of COVID-19 in its schools.

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.

The St. Johns County School Board on Tuesday morning approved new dress code rules, including changes to the district’s policy about the length of students’ shorts.

As the St. Johns County School District continues to grapple with a dress code policy that has been the source of controversy for months and is the subject of a federal investigation, the ACLU of Florida weighed in Friday, sending a letter to the district about the policy.

Earlier this month, the St. Johns County School District sent parents a survey seeking input on a dress code that has been a source of controversy for months and is now the subject of a federal investigation.

A federal investigation into whether the St. Johns County School District breached Title IX through its dress code policy continues as district officials on Wednesday turned over a cache of documents to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

The St. Johns County School District announced an expanded partnership with the Sheriff’s Office that will see at least one resource officer posted in all 46 of the district’s schools this fall.

The St. Johns County School District sent parents a survey Thursday, seeking input on a dress code that has been a source of controversy for months and is now the subject of a federal investigation.

The St. Johns County School District has already decided that it will not require temperature checks, desk shields or masks for students this upcoming school year, but it is still planning to have some coronavirus safety protocols in place.

Of the hundreds of yearbooks printed with edited photos of female students, only 25 were requested to be reprinted, according to St. Johns County School District spokesperson Christina Langston.

We’re looking into what will legally happen for the St. Johns County School District now that the U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into a complaint that the school district discriminated against female students through its enforcement of the dress code.

A Florida high school is facing criticism from students and parents after a teacher edited girls' yearbook photos to add more clothing.