Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the start of the 2023-2024 school year, Florida began requiring educators to get parental permission before calling a student ...

Another Brevard County teacher is facing state disciplinary action over a student name complaint at Satellite High School—an issue that has already led to one AP English teacher losing her job when ...

A Florida high school teacher who lost her job is receiving an outpouring of support — and some criticism — for calling a student by their preferred name, rather than their legal name. Melissa Calhoun ...

Last week, a law went into effect statewide that bars Florida teachers from addressing students by anything other than their formal legal names without written parental consent. So Sarasota County ...

Columbus City Schools has changed the names and genders of transgender and gender-variant students this month to their name and sex assigned at birth in district systems after the district dropped its ...

Teachers are facing blowback amid conflicts over using students' preferred names and pronouns. The latest case comes from Florida, where district officials declined to renew a Satellite Beach high ...

This story has been updated to include a comment from Brevard School Board Member John Thomas. Satellite High School senior Natalia Rojas says she knew that when Florida's 2023 law requiring parental ...

Addressing students by name is a powerful way to help build community in a classroom by helping students to develop a sense of belonging in the classroom and helping students learn each others' names.

Satellite High School is in Satellite Beach, Florida, near Cape Canaveral and about an hour east of Orlando. At the start of the 2023-2024 school year, Florida began requiring educators to get ...