Leslie Postal
K-12 Education Reporter at Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel k-12 education reporter
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1 day ago |
gazettextra.com | Steven Walker |Leslie Postal |Scott Travis
By Steven Walker, Leslie Postal and Scott Travis - Orlando Sentinel (TNS) ORLANDO, Fla. - Ivan Flores didn't love school before the pandemic hit, but his views soured more when he did ninth grade online and off campus. "I was just at home doing nothing, waking up late, missing assignments," he said. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.
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1 day ago |
thebrunswicknews.com | Steven Walker |Leslie Postal |Scott Travis
ORLANDO, Fla. - Ivan Flores didn't love school before the pandemic hit, but his views soured more when he did ninth grade online and off campus. "I was just at home doing nothing, waking up late, missing assignments," he said.
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1 day ago |
orlandosentinel.com | Steven Walker |Leslie Postal |Scott Travis
Ivan Flores didn't love school before the pandemic hit, but his views soured more when he did ninth grade online and off campus. "I was just at home doing nothing, waking up late, missing assignments," he said. When he resumed in-person classes at Evans High School in the 2021-22 school year, that habit stuck. His attendance was spotty and his classwork often undone. In tenth grade he estimated he missed nearly 60 days of school, or a third of the academic year. He is part of an alarming trend.
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2 days ago |
dailygazette.com | Steven Walker |Leslie Postal |Scott Travis
ORLANDO, Fla. — Ivan Flores didn’t love school before the pandemic hit, but his views soured more when he did ninth grade online and off campus. “I was just at home doing nothing, waking up late, missing assignments,” he said. kAm(96? 96 C6DF>65 :?\A6CD@? 4=2DD6D 2E tG2?D w:89 $49@@= :? E96 a_a`\aa D49@@= J62C[ E92E 923:E DEF4<] w:D 2EE6?52?46 H2D DA@EEJ 2?5 9:D 4=2DDH@C< @7E6? F?5@?6] x? E6?E9 8C256 96 6DE:>2E65 96 >:DD65 ?62C=J e_ 52JD @7 D49@@=[ @C 2 E9:C5 @7 E96 24256>:4 J62C]k^AmkAmw6 :D A2CE @7 2?
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1 month ago |
orlandosentinel.com | Leslie Postal
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Florida's public universities and colleges have just two weeks to turn over six years' worth of records on staffing, research and grant funding as part of the first formal information request under Gov. Ron DeSantis' newly mandated Department of Government Efficiency - a sweeping effort to identify "inefficiencies" in higher education. The DOGE team outlined the first phase of its audit In a letter to university presidents.
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