-
Across the state, educators and school district leaders call for increased funding.
-
Under current state standards, public-school students do not encounter lessons about communism until seventh grade. But the Senate and House are considering bills that could lead to changes.
-
The Florida Education Association said the state needs more than 4,000 teachers and almost 3,500 support staff members.
-
The State University System chancellor responded on The Florida Roundup to controversial congressional testimony by the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania about antisemitism.
-
The bill provides $45 million in grants to secure Jewish schools and institutions and other places that could be vulnerable to hate crimes.
-
A recent Gallup report found Gen Z students rank affordability and career preparedness as the most important factors when considering where to pursue higher education.
-
Ashlee K. Thomas, a local playwright, tells us about her musical The Busy Bees’ Great Adventure playing at the Arsht Center. It's about a group of bees on a quest to learn about the environmental crisis. Public schools worked together to build a whole curriculum around the show
-
Florida approved Ramsey's textbook, just as a new state law came into effect requiring a financial literacy course in order for incoming freshmen in high school to graduate.
-
Under the new law, middle and high school students must learn about 9/11 for at least 45 minutes in their social studies class.
-
The changes to the Hillsborough curriculum guides were made with legislation prohibiting classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in mind — laws that critics refer to as "Don't Say Gay."
-
Months after access to a popular children’s book about a male penguin couple hatching a chick was restricted at school libraries because of Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay law, a central Florida school district says it has reversed that decision.
-
Vice President Kamala Harris said some states have tried "to ban teaching Latino and Hispanic history." Her spokesperson cited two examples — and one of them doesn’t back up her claim.