Class of COVID-19

The multimedia project exploring how the pandemic affected education for the most vulnerable children was a partnership between various Florida Public Media organizations.

WLRN earned 14 awards in the Florida News Awards competition for journalism produced in 2021, including Overall Station of the Year. Sundial's Leslie Ovalle is the top radio producer in the state.

With the help of a local West Palm Beach nonprofit, this teen made it through the pandemic and his high school career.

The 2021 graduating class is unique in so many ways. Staples like prom, graduation and homecoming looked radically different. We hear from a panel of students representing schools across South Florida.

Governor DeSantis threw a punch at big tech––will the new law stand once it hits the courts? Plus, students join us to talk about their experience of school during a pandemic.

WLRN asked middle and high schoolers to share messages to their future selves about what it was like to take classes during COVID-19. We talked to them about some of their responses during a live virtual field trip to the South Florida Fair.

A conversation with Democratic State Sen. Lauren Book, the new minority leader in the Senate. Can you film a police officer making an arrest? We discuss. Plus, a virtual field trip to the South Florida Fair.

WLRN is hosting a live virtual field trip for middle and high school students to "visit" the South Florida Fair and share their #ClassOfCOVID stories.

Hundreds of students in Florida's second-largest school district stopped going to class during the pandemic. Some have switched districts without informing their schools, some didn't have computers or internet access and others had to stay home to take care of siblings.

When lawmakers have slashed Florida's Bright Futures scholarship during past difficult budget cycles, Black and Latino students lost out the most.

COVID-19 has starkly exposed the socioeconomic and racial fault lines at Morningside K-8 Academy, a dual-language magnet school in a gentrifying neighborhood.

The state government pushed local school districts to reopen classrooms last fall sooner than elected school board members thought was safe. Some see it as the state standing up for parent choice, while others interpreted it as the state undermining local decision-making.