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Should local taxes boost teacher pay? School board candidates are split Original

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By Jeffrey Solochek Verified, Divya Kumar Verified
| Tampa Bay Times Verified
Florida’s growing pushback against property taxes has kindled debate about one of the most popular and prevalent ways for school districts to boost paychecks. Voters across the political spectrum overwhelmingly have backed school local-option property taxes and their renewals since the early 2000s, with few exceptions. Two-thirds of Hillsborough voters approved the district’s property tax question in 2024. That same year, 68% of Pinellas voters OK’d doubling the district’s referendum tax rate.
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Hillsborough schools seek reaccreditation. Is it worth the cost? Original

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By Jeffrey Solochek Verified, Divya Kumar Verified
| Tampa Bay Times Verified
The big story: The Hillsborough County school board has renewed its annual membership with Cognia, an accrediting body the school district is mid-cycle with, for a fee of more than $300,000. The vote earlier this week was unanimous. But as anti-accreditation sentiment has grown among state leaders, and the district is not required to be accredited, board member Patti Rendon posed the question: Why?
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His 11.99 GPA may have been a record. It might never happen again

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By Divya Kumar Verified
| Tampa Bay Beacons
When Vaibhav Bhaskar was in fifth grade, his teacher asked the class to come up with alliterations to put on their name tags: Brilliant Bob, Kind Kailey. Bhaskar, 17, remembered being stuck. His teacher told him to go with Valedictorian Vaibhav. He remembered writing the words down. “It was so big on my name tag, but I didn’t even know what it meant,” he said.
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