Anne GeggisMarch 7, 2024
7min0
The legislation eases retention rules for third graders who don't pass reading test and high school graduation requirements in algebra.
Tag: recess
Anne GeggisMarch 7, 2024
Jacob OglesNovember 15, 2023
4min0
Parent advocates pushed for requirements to go into effect in 2017.
Associated PressDecember 13, 2019
10min215
Republicans were livid when Chair Jerry Nadler announced a recess after 11 p.m.
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterApril 4, 2017
2min188
Recess scored a big win the Senate, but the proposal faces an uphill climb in the House. The Senate voted 36-0 to approve a bill (SB 78) that would require school districts provide students in kindergarten through fifth grade with 20 minutes of recess each day. The vote marks a big milestone in the Senate, […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 28, 20173min165
The House PreK-12 Innovation Subcommittee passed its version of the public school recess bill, setting lawmakers on two very different paths when it comes to free play. The committee approved a committee substitute for the bill (HB 67) that would allow school boards to include free-play recess for students in kindergarten through third grade as […]
Les NeuhausMarch 16, 20174min402
In the decades before tablets and standardized testing wormed their way into primary and secondary schools, school playgrounds were a familiar place for children and adolescents. Up to an hour a day was spent running around, throwing balls to, or at, one another. But with all the technology and pressure to make the academic cut, […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 8, 2017
4min329
Call it another small victory for recess. The Senate PreK-12 Education Appropriations Subcommittee unanimously approved a bill (SB 78) requiring school districts to provide at least 100 minutes of supervised, unstructured free play each week — or 20 minutes of free play each week — to students in kindergarten through fifth grade. While the bill received […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterFebruary 21, 20174min424
Mandatory recess could be on the horizon. The Senate Education Committee voted 7-0 to approve a bill (SB 78) that requires school district across the state to provide at least 20 minutes of recess each day to students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Under the proposal, the master schedule at each school containing elementary grades […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterNovember 29, 20162min429
A push for mandatory play time at Florida’s elementary schools will once again be on the agenda during the 2017 legislative session. Sen. Anitere Flores filed legislation Tuesday that would require school to provide “at least 100 minutes of supervised, safe, and unstructured free play recess” each week. The mandatory recess would apply to students […]
Mitch PerryAugust 11, 2016
5min169
With health officials reporting there are now more than 400 travel-related cases of the Zika virus in Florida and 22 locally transmitted cases, Pinellas County Republican Rep. David Jolly has become the latest Florida lawmaker calling on Congress to return to Washington to pass a bill to fund the growing health crisis. “With Congress not scheduled to […]