After hours of public comment and debate, Hillsborough County school board members voted Tuesday, May 9 to close Just Elementary School in Tampa at the end of the school year.

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Retired lieutenant general, who grew up in South Florida, is sworn in as president of Virginia HBCU.

TALLAHASSEE — A House panel on Tuesday, March 21 supported launching a pilot program of year-round schools, with the plan’s sponsor suggesting it could help students recover from learning losses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

DeSantis slams programs during roundtable discussion

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson returns home for an honor

The University of South Florida Board of Trustees heard concerns on Tuesday, March 7 from students and faculty about what some are calling Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “war on education.”

February is Black History Month, and we are hearing from listeners about why studying and learning Black history is important to them.

As a feud over an African American studies course continues between Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and the College Board, the governor said Monday that Florida will "look to re-evaluate" its relationship with the organization.

TALLAHASSEE — A revamped New College of Florida Board of Trustees on Tuesday, Jan. 31 quickly shook up leadership at the small liberal-arts school, removing President Patricia Okker and replacing her on an interim basis with former state Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran.

DeSantis’ rejection of AP class prompts Crump and Black state lawmakers to take action.

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Florida A&M University (FAMU) unveiled a plaque engraved with the names of the nearly five dozen graduates of the original law school. The unveiling took place on Friday, Sept 9 at the north end of the Coleman Library building on the Tallahassee campus, home of the original law school, w…

Fewer than half of Florida’s 10th-graders passed the English Language Arts Exam given in the spring of 2022, a decline from 2021, according to the state Department of Education.

TALLAHASSEE – Florida students began returning to classrooms last week amid a teacher and support-staff shortage, with some counties still advertising positions and exploring “creative options” to fill vacancies.

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Parents ref lect on victims of the Texas school shooting, with many as young as 10 years old.

New Orleans’ St. Augustine High School, which accomplished many firsts for African Americans during the 1950s and 1960s, again enjoyed a historical moment for its 2022 graduating class.

A former Hillsborough County School Board member is working on an initiative to ensure Tampa Bay students aren’t missing school due to a lack of hygiene products.

The Florida Charter Schools Association observed National Charter Schools Week from May 8 to 14 by sending several parents to Washington D.C.  to speak out against new proposed rules from the U.S. Department of Education.

ORLANDO — A Seminole County high school is covering up yearbook photos of students protesting Florida’s so-called “don’t say gay” bill, a move that the publication’s staffers call censorship.

ORLANDO — Florida’s school districts may be down to just a single option for buying new elementary school math textbooks — and it’s a choice that concerns some educators.

Right now, school districts are gearing up to order teaching materials for next year, but some of those plans may have to be placed on the back burner.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a controversial bill that will bar classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades, characterizing the measure as a way to “protect students” and “support parents.”

In 2013, as she watched President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, 7-year-old Veronica Bofah decided she wanted to be just like him. She would go to Harvard and one day be president too.

ORLANDO — School administrators in a Central Florida county canceled a seminar for history teachers on the U.S. civil rights movement, in part, because it had not been screened to make sure it was free of critical race theory, which the college professor planning the presentation says it did…

Florida A&M University president’s recruitment tour attracted several hundred Jacksonville area students, parents and alumni the night of Jan. 20.

TALLAHASSEE — Critical race theory shouldn’t be taught to Florida’s children or workers, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday, and he’ll seek legislation next month to ban a practice that is stirring debate nationwide.

A lot has changed about secondary education since the pandemic began nearly two years ago. Classes stopped and started, many colleges shifted to online courses, loan repayment paused and some schools shuttered altogether.

The Florida Board of Education has scheduled a meeting next week to consider a U.S. Department of Education complaint seeking to prevent Florida from withholding funds from school districts that received federal money to cover school board members’ salaries.