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This month, the Education Fund got a boost of $50,000 from the LifeTime Foundation, a nonprofit run by a national fitness company, to expand and maintain the forests. Since the Food Forest Program started in 2015, 30 school in the county have planted food forests.
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Student protesters supporting Palestine at the University of Florida are now vulnerable to suspension following continuing protests. This comes as colleges and universities are cracking down on a recent surge in students protesting against the war between Israel and Palestine.
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When Galina Ilcheva first signed up for the Children's Trust Book Club for her son David, she thought the program was too good to be true. Four years later, her son has a whole library of free books — and he’ll keep getting a new one every month until he turns five.
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The college has been without a permanent leader since last October, when the then-president abruptly resigned. The application window is now open and candidates have a soft deadline of May 3, 2024.
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Like in Palm Beach County, various schools districts in Florida are taking students and parents to truancy court to find the most hard-to-reach families in the midst of a national post-pandemic spike in chronic absenteeism.
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The tuition price falls within the range of several other private universities and is lower than UM sister schools University of Southern California with a yearly tuition of $69,904 and Tulane University with a tuition of $68,678.
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Israeli survivors of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 visited college campuses in South Florida in April to bring their stories to students and combat antisemitism.
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The state's top education official has long been an advocate for school choice. Now, he's pushing Broward County Public Schools to pay millions to charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run.
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The move to fire the lead lawyer stems from a controversy surrounding a 2018 tax referendum that requires Broward schools to share taxpayer dollars with charter schools.
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The in-person program is a collaboration with the Florida Virtual School and Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
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A transgender Hillsborough County teacher is one of two instructors who are seeking a preliminary injunction. The judge says he will do his "best to get out an order as quickly as possible.”
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A Hillsborough County teacher is among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which contends the restrictions violate a federal civil-rights law and the First Amendment.