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TAMPA — The finish line is in sight for the Hillsborough County School District, which agreed Tuesday to accept a $100 million teacher effectiveness grant if the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation offers it.

Wendy Portillo was suspended for more than a year after she led St. Lucie kindergartners to vote a 5-year-old boy out of their class.

But now high schools also will be rated on the proportion of their students who can enter community college without needing remedial classes, pass exams to earn industry certification or college credit and actually graduate in four years.

Critics say school administrators have not made African and African-American studies a priority for students.

LAKE WORTH — Jodi Furman has already begun the process of whittling down her daughter's first-grade school supply list for the fall.

Other districts are being pushed to use common sense and not arrest students for simply bad behavior

The principal is accused of making about $3,800 in unauthorized purchases, WPEC Channel 12 reported.

Faced with the prospect of having to cough up original birth and marriage records to prove their dependents were legitimate, some school district employees have admitted they included people not entitled to coverage in what was likely an attempt to get them cheap health care.