While the increase is good news, some education advocates point out that the statistic is just one measure of student success.

Currently, Florida students who are without such permission can qualify for in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. Sen. Randy Fine has also filed a bill that would repeal that provision.

Exchange for Change, which has been bringing college-level writing courses to Florida prisoners for a decade, continues to inspire audiences and change lives.

As Carver Elementary marks more than 125 years of history, astronaut Winston Scott remembers his days as a student and what integration was like as one of the first Black kids to attend Coral Gables High.

Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference in 2021, political scientist Scott Yenor detailed what he sees as the “evils” of feminism, labeled “independent women” as “medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome” and decried colleges and universities as "the citadels of our gynecocracy” — a form of government run by women.

The 33,000-square foot Canyon Branch Library will bring meeting spaces, a podcast studio, a creative lab, Palm Beach County's first drive-up service window, a $370,000 art installation — along with 130,000 books and other materials.

The appointments to the public university in Florida’s western panhandle come two years after DeSantis tapped six new board members to oversee New College of Florida, in what critics say was a hostile political takeover of the small progressive school.

A report from the Helios Education Foundation finds that the Tampa Bay region could gain nearly $1 billion in economic gains if more students went to college.

The board which oversees the state’s universities set goals regarding school rankings, number of degrees awarded and graduation rates.

Hundreds of people who say they suffered physical or sexual abuse at two state-run reform schools in Florida are in line to receive tens of thousands of dollars in restitution from the state, after Florida lawmakers formally apologized for the horrors they endured as children more than 50 years ago.