Jim Schmitt

A Mandarin High School teacher will find out Thursday if he'll receive the state's top honor: 2022 Florida Teacher of the Year. Schmitt, a longtime history teacher, is among a group of five finalists across Florida up for the award. "It’s hard to describe how I feel," Schmitt told he...

Mandarin High School history teacher Jim Schmitt was greeted by a few more visitors in his classroom compared to his usual batch of students on Tuesday morning. With a giant banner in hand, Florida Department of Education officials let the veteran teacher know that he was a 2022 Florida Teacher of the Year Finalist.