Charter school operators seek to share 46 Palm Beach County campuses

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 11/12 7:58A Scott Travis

Palm Beach County may be a new area of expansion for charter schools looking to share space on the campuses of traditional schools. The Palm Beach County School District received 69 requests from three charter school providers expressing their...

‘We couldn’t take it anymore’: Fear of immigration arrests near schools in Florida reducing...

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 11/12 5:30A Bea Anhuci

GAINESVILLE — Alex Rodriguez Silva moved into his family’s dream home in Hialeah three years ago. In August, he handed the keys to the new owners and packed his family’s belongings into a moving van for a four-day drive to Denver. “We couldn’t...

Broward legislators seek to blunt ‘Schools of Hope’ charter school law

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 11/11 1:11A Scott Travis

Some Broward legislators say they may not be able to repeal a controversial law that allows charter schools to co-locate on existing school campuses, but they do think they can blunt the impact to school districts. The new law allows special...

Florida senator seeks to reverse Schools of Hope campus sharing law

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 11/10 7:44A Jeffrey S. Solochek

State Sen. Darryl Rouson wants to dial back the “chaos” caused by a charter school bill that Florida lawmakers slipped into law in the the final hours of their spring overtime session. The law allows operators who run the subset of charters...

Air Force Academy’s accreditation under review after cuts to civilian faculty

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 11/10 2:57A Noelle Phillips

The organization that accredits the U.S. Air Force Academy is examining the institution’s academic programs after multiple civilian faculty members resigned, retired or were fired, leading alumni to...

Elementary school classrooms would need to display presidents’ portraits, under proposal

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 11/6 6:32A News Service Of Florida

Elementary-school classrooms throughout Florida would be required to display portraits of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, under a bill filed Thursday. The “patriotic displays” proposal (SB 420 and HB 371) also would require...

Florida releases nearly $60M to cover missing, frozen voucher funds

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 11/6 4:18A Jeffrey S. Solochek

Florida government officials hope nearly $60 million in payments to families and schools will put to bed the financial troubles the state faced last year in its education voucher program. But lawmakers stressed Wednesday that fixing the...

The shutdown is hurting schools whose budgets are mostly federal money

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 11/5 12:12A Associated Press

By ANNIE MA, Associated Press Education Writer In Chinle, Arizona, financial distress caused by the government shutdown has led to the suspension of after-school programs, including some that students...

‘We blew this’: Broward School Board terminates $2.6 million office rental lease

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 11/4 11:45P Scott Travis

Broward School Board members decided Tuesday to terminate a $2.6 million office rental lease that turned into an expensive public relations blunder. School Board members said Tuesday they made a bad...

Quarter of Florida residents ‘seriously’ contemplate leaving state because of high cost of living,...

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 11/3 11:33P Anthony Man

A quarter of Floridians surveyed are seriously considering moving elsewhere because of the high cost of living in the state. And when those who are thinking about it somewhat are added, half are...

Broward schools end ‘Smart Bond’ program as a new referendum is considered

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/31 2:50A Scott Travis

The SMART Bond program, a school renovation effort that became a symbol of waste and mismanagement for the Broward School District, is coming to an end — at least by name. The School Board agreed in 2023 to set an end date of Oct. 31, 2025, for...

New College of Florida may be first to sign Trump’s university pledge

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/29 11:00P Lucy Marques

New College of Florida may soon be the first public university in the country to sign President Donald Trump’s higher education agreement. The compact offers preferential tax benefits and funding to schools that agree to follow the Trump...

DeSantis wants Florida universities to ‘pull the plug’ on H-1B staff from foreign countries

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/29 5:03A Steven Walker

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wants to pull the plug on H-1B visas at state universities , arguing the program meant to recruit top talent from foreign countries wrongly takes jobs away from Floridians. Almost 400 employees from foreign...

Florida’s ‘anti-communism’ curriculum criticized as ‘propaganda’ by experts

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/27 11:00P Steven Walker

Florida could soon be teaching students about the dangers and evils of communism under proposed new academic standards that some argue amount to propaganda and wrongly aim to rehabilitate the reputation of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who pushed the Red...

Florida historian Jim Clark, UCF lecturer and journalist, has died

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/27 7:51A Dewayne Bevil

Jim Clark , a UCF senior lecturer, author, historian, political commentator and longtime Orlando Sentinel journalist, has died after a heart attack at his home in Orlando. He was 78. Clark was a native of Washington, D.C., and grew up in Chevy...