Delores Barr Weaver issues matching challenge for school renaming
Mrs. Weaver has pledged $50,000 to the effort if the community can raise $100,000 in a 2-1 match.
5/17/2021
Generous gift to expand the Wolfburg Fellowship for Social Justice in Education
Applications for the Fellowship, due June 13, are open to public school teachers in Duval County.
4/26/2021
Lake Lucina Elementary School teaching team awarded the Cindy Edelman Excellence in Teaching Fellowship
Five teachers will travel to Washington, D.C., and a national conference to learn how to become a social justice model school.
4/14/2021
New research sheds light on inequities in teacher retention in Duval County
The report comes as JPEF prepares to accelerate strategies to diversify the teaching workforce in Duval County.
2/23/2021
An analysis of three years of data from Duval County Public Schools showed that Duval County’s teacher retention rate is about 84 percent year-to-year across the entire district, and about 75 percent year-to-year in the average school.
Read MoreDuval County Parents Begin Intensive Advocacy Training Program
Now in its third year, the program has made a dramatic impact in Duval County, as graduates have led successful community projects on implicit bias, special education and many other issues.
2/10/2021
A diverse cohort of 16 parents has been selected to participate in Parents Who Lead, an intensive program on civic leadership that teaches parents how to be effective advocates for children.
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