
“Our county created (a challenge) process many, many years ago, and it was even updated in 2017 to incorporate both instructional materials and library media,” Media Services & Instructional Materials Specialist Kris Smith said.
The school district must submit a list of materials that were objected to, removed or discontinued to the FL DOE in June. A searchable catalog of materials must be available on each school’s website. Staff who select books must hold a valid media specialists certificate, which Volusia’s media specialists already do. Library and instructional materials must be made available to community members for viewing upon request. School media specialists must complete a training on material selection provided by the Florida Department of Education available Jan. Some of the requirements include the following: Tuesday's presentation explained how the district is complying with House Bill 1467 on K-12 Education and House Bill 1557, known as the Parental Rights in Education Act and dubbed the “ Don’t Say Gay Law” by critics. She also said, however, that she understands state requirements and parents’ desire to be involved in their children's education. “It’s important to know the pain in order to know the joy of it no longer being used because unless we understand the pitfalls, we will never ever understand the hallelujahs,” she said. The most outspoken on the subject, she said she’s taught advanced assignments that looked at racism in literature from different time periods and had a student question why reading material included a derogatory term. More coverage: Volusia County students, teachers return to school for new year New parental rights law: Volusia and Flagler schools can't treat kids with Band-Aids, ice packs without consentĮlection results: DeSantis' School Board endorsements prove mixed bag as 2 Volusia races head to runoffs “I see a future that’s very bleak because I think what we do in education to have student success and problem-solving, students have to be able to choose,” board member Linda Cuthbert, a former high school English teacher, said. Board members, media specialists and parents also took the opportunity to voice their opinions on the ongoing hot topic. WKT files are a less common way to load geometric coordinates into online mapping programs.Following recent state legislation on educational materials, the Volusia County School Board is anticipating a “very active” year of requests to pull books from the shelves of school media centers, according to board Chair Ruben Colón.Ī presentation at Tuesday night’s board meeting detailed the policy for parents challenging books or opting out of book access for their children. TopoJSON files encode topographic information in the JSON formatted files. SHP files (Shapefiles) are used with the ESRI web GIS and similar geodatabase management applications. KML files, or Keyhole Markup Language, are usually used with Google Maps. #Florida outline software#
GeoJSON Format files are used with web-based JavaScript mapping software like Leaflet, Mapbox and D3.SVG files can be used with Cricut printers, as well as loaded into software like Photoshop or AffinityDesigner.PNG files are used on the web and are not vectors, which means they will get fuzzy as you try to scale them larger.EPS files are true vector images that are to be used with Adobe Photoshop and/or Illustrator software.This data is available in the public domain. Florida Outline can be generated in any of the following formats: PNG, EPS, SVG, GeoJSON, TopoJSON, SHP, KML and WKT. This map vector is of the state Florida Outline.
File size is estimated and can vary slightly based on format of the file. Notes: All points are listed in the order of latitude, longitude.