TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A bill filed in the Florida House calls for mandatory middle school recess.
HB 1149, “Recess Requirements for Middle School Students,“ was filed on Wednesday by Rep. Paula Stark, R-St. Cloud.
Stark seeks to amend a provision of HB 7069, a multifaceted education bill signed in 2017 by then-Gov. Rick Scott, which in small part mandated 100 minutes of free-play recess each week for public-school students in kindergarten through grade 5…