Broward County Public Schools

The district did say, though, that it wouldn't contribute to or it wouldn't lead to cuts or layoffs.

Broward County Public Schools would lose more than $350 million in their budget, and this supplement goes to 1,300 teachers.

And nearly 90% of this money would be going to teacher salaries, and 200 mental health professionals and 40 school safety personnel get the rest of the split of that bucket of money.

Okay.

If the community agrees, and we've had substantial community support up to this point, please tell the board yourself.

Go online at browardschools.com and offer a comment of support before 1:00 today, or come with us to the meeting so that you can tell them in person that you support Sistrunk Rising.

The meeting starts this morning at 9:00.

We believe public comment is early in the agenda, so please come on time if you're gonna be there in person at 9:00, and we should be out by 11:00.

Yeah.

But SaferWatch is, is based out of Florida, and then they also got a contract inside Broward Schools, uh-

Mm

... post, uh, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas.

And yeah, we've got some real examples at this point now, like sort of like a couple of years into the journey.

Broward County Schools, we've worked really closely with them.

They've rolled out licenses for co-pilot to educators and students.

And the educators are reporting they're saving hours of time per week.

And in education.

I don't know how this is happening with all of the people moving in here, all of the building going up, but Broward County Public Schools is facing a deeper enrollment decline than initially reported at the start of the school year.

The district's official September 14 count showed roughly 12,300 fewer students than last year, including charter school enrollment, and that is a 5.6% decline.

that is larger than the approximated 11,000 student reduction that was reflected in the August 1st day count.

Elaine Fiore is a senior campaign director at WRAP Americas and the founder of the Food Conservation Alliance.

Once a former middle school teacher, she spearheaded a food recovery program for Broward County Schools and then expanded that program across the state of Florida.

Tara Thomas is a senior government affairs manager at the School Superintendents Association, also known as AASA, where she monitors, analyzes, and advocates on federal, legislative, and regulatory issues impacting public education.

Our final guest is Nadia Davis, a senior federal policy analyst at the School Nutrition Association, where she works on federal policy and advocacy related to school nutrition and meal programs.