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School’s out for summer across Florida. In honor of the much-anticipated break, we asked teachers, students and administrators to describe that first day out of the classroom by filling in

Broward County voters will have a big decision to make about school funding in November.The School Board of Broward County School approved a resolution to…

Brown v. Board of Education — the Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools were inherently unequal — turns 60 years old this year.Earlier this…

Correction: An earlier version of this story identified Michael Kamen as the director of the the film, Mr. Holland's Opus. He in fact is the composer who…

A recurring theme in Florida education is that policies intended to address separate issues can and do conflict with each other.For instance, Florida…

President Barack Obama’s proposal to equip nearly every school with high-speed wireless Internet will cost $800 million per year — $3.2 billion total by the 2018 deadline — according to

There are questions about whether a conservative political group has too much influence at a public college. Florida State University rewrote its…

Jackie Mader / The Hechinger Report Laurie Langford, a second grade teacher at West Defuniak Elementary, helps two students look for evidence in a reading passage about public sector jobs.

The percentage of Florida third graders passing the state's FCAT math and reading exams did not improve this year -- remaining largely flat for the past…

Hackers stole employee data earlier this month from the American Institutes for Research, the company chosen to produce Florida’s next standardized test. No student information was stolen, according to Education

A recent University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform report concluded charter schools receive less funding than traditional public schools across the country. But that study only looked at revenue,

This story is part of a series from The Hechinger Report and StateImpact Florida looking at how Florida schools are getting ready for Common Core…