Florida universities’ campus police to partner with ICE on immigration enforcement

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/10 3:48A Divya Kumar

Campus police at the universities of Florida and South Florida are among those that have signed on as law enforcement partners with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. UF spokesperson Steve Orlando confirmed that the school’s police...

UF international student detained by immigration agents is now back in Colombia

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/9 8:48A Bea Lunardini

GAINESVILLE — The University of Florida international student arrested near campus and sent to an immigration detention center has returned to Colombia, according to a new statement from his mother...

Florida universities face sweeping state audit under DeSantis’ DOGE mandate

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/9 8:03A Garrett Shanley

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida’s public universities and colleges have just two weeks to turn over six years’ worth of records on staffing, research and grant funding as part of the first formal information request under Gov. Ron DeSantis’ newly...

Schools relying on digital surveillance find security still takes a human touch

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/9 6:32A Associated Press

By CARLY FLANDRO of Idaho Education News and JACKIE VALLEY of the Christian Science Monitor Four years ago, a sixth grader in Rigby, Idaho, shot and injured two peers and a custodian at a middle...

Trump administration halts $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell, $790 million for Northwestern

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/9 2:48A Associated Press

By WILL WEISSERT, CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern...

ADL upgrades 19 colleges’ antisemitism ‘grades,’ as some enact new policies

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/8 4:43A Andrew Lapin

The letter grades that the Anti-Defamation League has issued to campuses on their response to antisemitism are showing signs of growing influence: The group announced that several schools have adopted new policies to improve their grades in the...

Florida private colleges concerned about cuts possibly affecting 21,000 students

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/7 11:55A News Service Of Florida

Private college and university leaders said Monday they are worried about potential cuts in the state Effective Access to Student Education, or EASE, program, which provides $3,500 annual grants to undergraduates at the private schools. Under the...

Maine sues the Trump administration over funding freeze after dispute over transgender athletes

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/7 11:15A Associated Press

By PATRICK WHITTLE SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Maine officials sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday to try to stop the government from freezing federal money in the wake of a dispute over transgender athletes in sports....

Florida GOP wants to make it easier to challenge books on school shelves

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/5 1:00A Steven Walker

A Florida law that has pushed public schools to remove thousands of books , including literary classics, from their shelves could get even more restrictive soon, as Republican lawmakers move to close a “loophole” they say still allows volumes...

Federal officials are quietly terminating the legal residency of some international college...

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/4 5:31A Associated Press

By COLLIN BINKLEY, ANNIE MA and MAKIYA SEMINERA WASHINGTON (AP) — A crackdown on foreign students is alarming colleges, who say the Trump administration is using new tactics and vague justifications to push some students out of the country....

Florida House backs erasing ‘Gulf of Mexico’ from state laws, educational materials

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/4 2:48A Jim Turner

TALLAHASSEE — Erasing the Gulf of Mexico from state laws and educational materials won Florida House approval Thursday. The Republican-controlled House passed two bills along party lines to carry out President Donald Trump’s directive to rename...

Charter schools could more easily take over district schools, under Florida bill

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/3 1:00A Scott Travis

Florida could see a surge in charter schools under a proposal that could make it easier and cheaper for them to operate. A pair of bills that have been advancing the state Legislature would provide three new options for potential charter school...

DeSantis says he tried to install Randy Fine at FAU because state lawmakers wanted to get rid of...

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/2 8:16A Anthony Man

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he tried to install Congressman-elect Randy Fine as president of Florida Atlantic University because members of the state Legislature, where Fine served at the time, disliked him so much they wanted to get rid of...

Student brings pills to Miramar school, prompting hazmat response

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/2 8:02A Shira Moolten

A student brought a bag of pills to Whispering Pines Center in Miramar Wednesday morning, leading some students and staff members to feel nauseous and prompting police, hazmat and paramedics to respond, officials say. As of Wednesday afternoon,...

There’s a new push to put whole milk back in school meals. Here’s what you should know

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/2 3:00A Associated Press

By JONEL ALECCIA, Associated Press More than a dozen years after higher-fat milk was stripped from school meals to slow obesity in American kids and boost their health, momentum is growing to put it...