Our Opinion

I had high hopes that under new leadership, our district could avoid this yearly game of management coming in and crying poor, leaving us to spend months hammering out a decent salary increase, while employees wait to receive the yearly cost-of-living raise they have rightly earned.... But unfortunately, management's behavior at Monday’s session does not demonstrate a similar serious desire on their part.

An across-the-board pay raise for Sarasota County Schools employees is the goal, despite a state system that devotes more money disproportionately to new teachers, and bonuses.

Tools to manage classrooms and collaborate with others, and skills and ideas that support new teachers’ success, were among the main elements of this year’s Foundations Academy. This program is held each year by the Sarasota Classified/Teachers Association in collaboration with Sarasota County Schools. The county’s new teachers learned the […]

The League of Women Voters of Sarasota County, and of Florida, speak out against the personal attacks allowed by the Sarasota County School Board during public comments against its one non-conservative member.

Too many essential questions remain unanswered to allow parent drops direct into classrooms, says a national school safety expert. Curtis Lavarello pleads with the Sarasotas County School Board to "apply the brakes."