Florida education news: School bus routes, teacher pay, final exams and more

CHANGE THE STOPS: An advisory committee comes up with bus safety recommendations for the Pinellas School Board to consider in light of a girl's death earlier in the year. HANDS OFF: Lakewood High band teacher Raphael J. McLean is arrested on accusations that he molested one of his female students in the school . MORE MONEY: New Florida State University president Eric Barron calls for higher tuition without strings on how the school uses the income. GROWING FIELD: Two more candidates enter the race for Pasco School Board.  TOO MUCH FOR TEACHERS? Sarasota's local-option property tax for schools bolsters teacher pay , which some residents say gives teachers too much at a time when others are suffering the recession, the Herald-Tribune reports.  PUT AN ASTERISK BY THEIR RESULTS: Tornado warnings interrupt FCAT testing for some Marion County students, the Ocala Star-Banner

reports.  SOME CELEBRATION: A skate party after FCAT testing ends abruptly when some of the Duval County high school students start fighting, the Florida Times-Union reports. EARLY START: Indian River schools set an earlier start date for 2010-11 in order to get final exams done before winter break, the Vero Beach Press Journal reports. ANOTHER MED SCHOOL: A proposal to put a medical school at Florida Atlantic University moves through the Florida Legislature, the Sun-Sentinel reports. LOVING LEFTOVERS : Escambia schools have $22 million remaining for capital projects after completing the list attached to a local sales tax, the Pensacola News-Journal reports. DIMMER FUTURE: Florida lawmakers consider scaling back the Bright Futures scholarship program to save money, the News Service of Florida reports.

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