Broward County Schools

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.

The school board unanimously rejected a plan brought by Superintendent Peter Licata for the district to begin building out its own full-scale police force as soon as next month.

UPDATED: With heavy rain causing major flooding in South Florida from Wednesday night into Thursday morning, city and school officials warned residents to keep off the roadways and announced closings and cancellations.

Broward's new top leader has spent nearly three decades in neighboring Palm Beach County public schools, most recently as a regional superintendent.

The head of one of Florida's largest school districts is out of a job. Broward Schools Superintendent Vickie Cartwright was fired with a 5 to 4 vote by a “reform board” controlled by five appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The South Florida school district has found one more way to fill many vacant positions going into the school year: hiring from the Philippines.

Broward school officials are taking steps to fix a question about a proposed school tax that was inaccurately translated on voter ballots.

Miami-Dade and Broward school district students performed better on this year’s annual statewide exams compared to last year’s, but only slightly more than half of the students earned a passing score of Level 3 or higher in English and math.

A long-awaited report from a grand jury, which has already indicted the former Broward school superintendent and two other administrators, will recommend that Gov. Ron DeSantis remove some school board members, a new court ruling says,

The search for a superintendent of schools in Broward County is down to two. A fiery lawsuit against the Miami Dolphins and the entire NFL alleging bribery and racism, plus peacocks: Love them or hate them, they may lose some of the protections they enjoy.

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.

The Broward County School Board voted Tuesday to make masks optional for high school students. It comes after the board said it would reconsider its mask mandate once the county met two thresholds: a 66 percent COVID-19 vaccination rate and a three percent or lower positivity rate for 10 consecutive days.