Florida education board will weigh high school athlete pay for NIL

Share
sports NIL
High school football players. By wacomme via iStock for WMNF News.

©2024 The News Service of Florida

The State Board of Education next week will consider ratifying a change that would allow high-school athletes to be compensated for such things as endorsement deals.

The Florida High School Athletic Association last month approved the change to allow compensation for use of athletes’ names, images and likenesses, or what has become widely known as NIL.

The change, however, remains subject to approval by the state education board, which will meet Wednesday in Orlando.

The proposal comes after changes in recent years that allowed college athletes to be compensated for their names, images and likenesses.

An initial college NIL law went into effect in Florida in July 2021 and was expanded last year.

If the new proposal is approved, Florida would join about 30 states and the District of Columbia in allowing high-school athletes to receive NIL compensation.

Leave a Reply

  • (will not be published)

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

You may also like

Talking Animals: “Kitten Lady” discusses caring for neonatal kittens, and her latest NYT bestselling book, “Cats Of The World”

Hannah Shaw--recognized as an influential humane educator, recounts how she developed...

Election vote
Deadline to register to vote in Pinellas County local elections is Monday, February 10th

Listen: Pinellas County’s municipal elections are coming next month, and...

The Scoop: Fri. Feb. 7, 2025, Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF

Roundup of WMNF news headlines including Hillsborough tap water and...

Fluoride stays in Hillsborough County water after tie vote by commissioners

Listen: Water in Hillsborough County will continue to have fluoride....

Ways to listen

WMNF is listener-supported. That means we don't advertise like a commercial station, and we're not part of a university.

Ways to support

WMNF volunteers have fun providing a variety of needed services to keep your community radio station alive and kickin'.

Midnight Soul
Player position: