Last year, the state eliminated a tuition benefit that let students receive in-state tuition, regardless of their immigration status.

The popular visa program, established in 1990, allows U.S. employers to hire foreign professionals with highly specialized knowledge and at least a bachelor’s degree. More than 500 foreigners were employed as of last year at Florida public and private universities under the program.

Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of Los Angeles public schools in the nation’s second-largest district, was put on paid leave Friday, two days after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the district’s headquarters. He previously headed Miami-Dade schools.

A home in Southwest Ranches, in Broward, was searched by federal agents as part of a probe into Alberto Carvalho, the former Miami-Dade County district superintendent. It is the home of Debra Kerr, a former sales representative for AllHere Education, a failed artificial intelligence company that received a $6 million contract by Carvalho's new school district in Los Angeles.

Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of the Los Angeles school system, started working in Miami-Dade County Public schools as a teacher more than 30 years ago before serving as its superintendent. A home in Southwest Ranches, in Broward, was also raided.

This February marks 50 years since Congress recognized Black History Month. Recently, more than 300 Broward County high schoolers spent the day going deeper into learning how Black and Jewish activists came together to advocate for one another during the Civil Rights movement.

In November, the Florida Board of Education adopted standards for teaching middle and high school students about communism. After that, President Donald Trump directed the U.S. military to invade Venezuela and capture Maduro.

The schools on the complaint against Step Up For Students say they have cut education programs their students rely on in the face of delayed voucher payments that have affected their operations — programs critical to their students with disabilities.

Commissioner Stasi Kamoutsas' comments come after students across the state participated in walkouts protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE.

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival began at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus in 1997 as a one-day, student-run event. Today, it’s one of the country's largest culinary festivals. But one thing hasn’t changed: the FIU connection and the students behind the scenes.