charter schools

One provision of a new sweeping state education law allows for a library, community service organization, museum, performing arts venue, theater, cinema or church to house a school.

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.

HB 109 would allow municipalities to apply to convert public schools within city bounds into charter schools.

Property taxes collected through discretionary 1.5-mill local levies and allocated for constructing and renovating traditional public schools and buying land could largely go toward charter schools through the state budget.

School districts will still serve as sponsors and ultimately be in charge of monitoring the charter schools once they're approved.

Waivers for those opposed to vaccination are easy to obtain under state regulations, and schools will work with students who aren't inoculated, the district's superintendent said.

A proposal that would allow state colleges and universities to authorize the creation of charter schools and sponsor the schools is advancing in the Florida Senate. The proposal would allow higher education institutions, upon approval by the state Department of Education, to solicit applications from charter schools.

After voters approved the ballot measure, two charter schools, Academy for Positive Learning and Palm Beach Maritime Academy, and two parents filed a lawsuit against the Palm Beach County School Board arguing that charter schools were entitled to a portion of the money.

When schools shut down last spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the closures were especially difficult for families of children with disabilities or severe medical conditions. Then came perhaps an even tougher dilemma: what to do when schools reopened in the fall.

Parents hoping to send their children to an actual school campus this fall may have to shell out money for a private school.Despite pressure from the…

Some of Miami-Dade’s wealthiest private schools and publicly funded charter schools are benefiting from millions of federal dollars that are supposed to…

TALLAHASSEE --- In an issue that has drawn heavy debate in the Legislature, a divided appeals court Wednesday backed the Palm Beach County School Board in…