Broward County School Board

About 50-thousand Broward County public school students and school employees are being told that their personal data may have been breached during a ransomware attack months ago.

Rosalind Osgood, chairwoman of the Broward School Board, faces an imminent deadline to submit her resignation in order to move forward with her candidacy for Florida Senate. She said Thursday she plans to submit her resignation letter by the end of the day Friday.

Vickie Cartwright isn’t Broward’s permanent schools’ superintendent — at least not yet. The School Board voted 6 to 3 on Tuesday to reject a request by member Nora Rupert to forgo a national superintendent search and immediately offer the long-term job to Cartwright, who has been interim superintendent since Aug. 1.

Broward voted in favor of a mask mandate even under threat of losing some board members losing their salaries. A local Paralympian leading the refugee team in the Tokyo games. Plus, a Latina’s guide to the universe.

Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran has issued a letter threatening to withhold money from the Broward School Board if they don’t reverse their decision to require all students to wear masks.

The board voted 8-1, with Lori Alhadeff dissenting, to defy Gov. Ron DeSantis and directives from two state agencies. The board also agreed to pursue legal action challenging state rules that allow parents to ignore mask mandates for their children.

Vickie Cartwright, a longtime Orange County administrator and recent superintendent in Wisconsin, was selected Thursday as the interim superintendent for Broward schools.

Broward County School Board Chairwoman Rosalind Osgood discusses superintendent Robert Runcie's departure and Miami Herald reporters talk about COVID-19 vaccine disparities in Miami-Dade County.

Instead of coming back, however, more than 70 decided to leave their professions, according to the agenda for Wednesday’s scheduled school board meeting.

The Broward legislative delegation met with school board members for a workshop Wednesday — ahead of the upcoming 2021 state session. The pandemic was discussed at length, but not listed as a priority.

Four new elected officials will help lead Florida's largest school districts amid one of the greatest crises in their history: a global pandemic.

Voters narrowed down crowded fields of candidates to two finalists in each race: three in Miami-Dade and one in Broward.