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Florida just became the largest state to mandate personal finance education in high school

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Florida just became the largest state to mandate personal finance education in high school

Florida is officially the largest state to mandate a financial literacy course for high school graduation. On Tuesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed bill SB 1054 into law. The legislation was unanimously passed by both the state House of Representatives and Senate in early March. The new law will apply to students entering ninth grade in the 2023-2024 school year, and require that they take a half-credit course in personal finance before they graduate.More from the Tampa Bay Times and CNBC.

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Florida will be setting aside hundreds of millions of dollars to boost the pay of thousands of Florida teachers, including veteran educators, as part of a multi-year effort. The pay increases will benefit teachers in more than a dozen school districts that are still trying to bring the minimum base salary for teachers to $47,500 — a top priority for Gov. Ron DeSantis for the last three years. Starting July 1 with the new fiscal year, there will be more offered to veteran teachers, who already make above the base salary and who have not benefited from earlier initiatives. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]

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Searches for new presidents at state universities are ramping up after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that will shield personal information about applicants for the top jobs at colleges and universities. DeSantis signed the measure last week, which went into effect immediately. It came as five universities — the University of Florida, the University of South Florida, Florida International University, the University of North Florida and Florida Gulf Coast University — are in various stages of searching for new leaders. [Source: WLRN]

Florida judge tosses college fees lawsuit

The lawsuit is one of a series of similar legal fights in Florida and across the country about the decisions of colleges and universities to shut down campuses and move classes online in 2020. The University of Florida, Florida State University and the state university system’s Board of Governors, for example, have been targeted by lawsuits from students who alleged they did not receive services after making payments. [Source: News Service of Florida]

Rhea Law selected as University of South Florida president-elect

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