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Orange County Public Schools has announced plans to open five new schools in August.Hamlin Elementary School, Hamlin Middle School, and Panther Lake…

It's a month and a half into another unprecedented academic year. Schools have been reporting record numbers of coronavirus cases, and a battle is raging over masks in classrooms.WMFE's Amy Green talked with Wekiva High School health teacher Vinek Blanding about how Covid-19 and the politicized debate over masking are impacting students.

The superintendent of the school district in the capital of Florida says he's decided to require masks amid an increase in COVID-19 cases fueled by the delta variant.

12-year-old Lila Hartley wrote her school board in Duval County last week asking them to require face masks ahead of the new school year.

More school districts in Florida are passing opt-out face mask mandates ahead of the first day of school on August 10th.

No mask mandate has been decided for OCPS students at this time. Only two districts in the state in Alachua and Duval counties have mandates in place in contradiction to state law.

Orange County Public School employees who get the COVID-19 vaccine by October 31st and provide a copy of their vaccination card stand to earn $200 dollars.

Chair Teresa Jacobs says she’s gotten data from Nemours Children’s and Arnold Palmer Children’s hospitals and it shows a spike in kids visiting the ER in July.

Florida’s State Board of Education on Wednesday will consider adopting a wide-ranging overhaul of curriculum standards across multiple subjects in public schools, including guidelines for teaching civics and government courses and Holocaust education.

Applicants should pre-register to attend the career fair on Monday July 12 at the Pine Hills Bus Depot.