Florida Schools Reopening

Superintendent Kurt Browning says cases involving students and staff have "decreased dramatically."

The president spoke to CNN and a small group of socially distanced Americans about his coronavirus response.

K-12 schools across the greater Tampa Bay region have made some adjustments to their policies on coronavirus since the start of the school year.

The change is an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

COVID-19 has led to the cancellation of a number of Tampa Bay area football games Friday, while state universities are being told to once again prepare for virtual commencement ceremonies.

Many Pinellas County teachers say they are working long days and even weekends to try and keep up with the demands of planning courses and delivering them to two separate groups of children at the same time.

A combination of cyber attacks and software glitches have disturbed the first week of online classes for 275,000 students in district schools.

While the number of students enrolled at USF is down slightly in Fall 2020 compared to a year earlier, it's a record freshman class in terms of their academic credentials.

It includes asymptomatic people waiting for test results, or with a sick family member with whom they live.

Teachers throughout Florida are juggling in-person instruction, e-learning, and safety concerns.

On this week's Florida Roundup, we spoke with two delegates to the RNC, and also discussed what schools and universities are doing to stem the spread of coronavirus as they reopen.

An emergency meeting early Friday was called after a legal window opened for the board to go back to its Aug. 6 decision to postpone school reopening.