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Thomas E Kennedy

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Find – M’ Friends hope train at CRHS

Find – M’ Friends hope train at CRHS Visiting our schools in the summer you always see and learn neat things. Today I saw two. One was a set of shoes pull-overs with scrubbers on the bottom the staff use when wax-stripping floors. I spent many a summer stripping and waxing floors as a teen […]

Get out the sunscreen… No doctor’s or parent’s note needed

Get out the sunscreen… No doctor’s or parent’s note needed HB 7069 gives parents and students right to use sunscreen as needed For a number of years I have pushed for more common sense laws with regard to over-the-counter products use in our schools.  Items like chapstick, cough drops, acetaminophen, and sunscreen should be items […]

FRS Petition system up 14 percent

FRS Petition system up 14 percent Lawmakers increase again FRS contributions, Citrus Schools increased another $370K It was recently reported that Florida’s Retirement System is up 14.24 percent for the fiscal year. (see full story: http://www.chronicleonline.com/content/officials-expect-state-pension-fund-increase-fiscal-year) I am pleased that FRS is healthy, but let us not forget that this was done on the backs […]

STUFF THE BUS 2017

STUFF THE BUS is now a CCEF project. Mark your calendar for July 29th, 2017 and bring your donated school supplies from 10:00am through 2:00pm. Let us thank CCEF’s STUFF THE BUS partners Winn-Dixie , Publix ,and Walmart!

NO MORE VAM for teachers in Citrus County Schools

NO MORE VAM for teachers in Citrus County Schools I was proud today, Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 during our School Board meeting to ask our board for support in removing VAM (Value added Model) from the teachers’ evaluation process in Citrus County.  VAM was put into law under SB736 in 2011 by the then Florida […]

Chronicle Editorial Board gives kudos to Citrus Schools

Chronicle Editorial Board gives kudos to Citrus Schools This week the Citrus County Chronicle Editorial Board again give high marks for the recent reports of all three Citrus County public high schools included in the Washington Post’s 2017 America’s Most Challenging High Schools list, and Lecanto High School was named in the U.S. News & […]