education

At a recent Miami-Dade County School Board meeting focused on sex ed textbooks, opponents of the curriculum derailed the deliberations. One person was arrested — but it wasn't any of the women causing the disruption.

Florida’s new restrictions on discussions of race, diversity, and LGBTQ issues in classrooms have some teachers and school districts worried that partisan politics are seeping over into schools. Critics of those new policies say they’re contributing to a massive increase in teacher vacancies.

Recently released federal guidelines would extend protections under the law to include schools’ “obligations not to discriminate based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation and gender identity.”

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the George Washington University law school received calls to drop Thomas and cancel the seminar he taught.

Saying federal guidelines aimed at preventing discrimination against students based on such things as gender identity would “vastly expand the application” of Title IX, Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. told school officials Thursday to ignore the guidelines.

The Florida Department of Education published a proposed rule designed to carry out part of the controversial new “Parental Rights in Education law,” which critics disparagingly dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

The jury began hearing testimonies this week for Nikolas Cruzes penalty trial, and will decide if he lives or dies. Also, the Miami-Dade school board rejected the health education curriculum for middle and high schools students that they previously approved, meaning students will not have sex education classes.

School board campaigns officially are non-partisan races, but this year – more than ever – politics is front and center. What’s at stake for parents, teachers, students and voters when state politics comes to public school boards?

Emphasizing that school-board elections have a “significant impact” on families, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday focused heavily on his support for candidates who align with his education agenda as he helped kick off an event held by the conservative group Moms for Liberty.

With the 15-week abortion ban being reinstated in Florida due to the state's appeal, how will companies handle helping their employees with abortions if they choose to do so? Also Broward County residents will vote in August to decide whether or not to increase their taxes to help keep funding teachers and schools.

A new school year is just weeks away and Florida is missing thousands of teachers. Plus, new laws have changed what some teachers can teach, and how they teach.

A federal judge Friday ruled a university professor, two teachers and a student can move forward with a challenge to a new state law that restricts the way race-related concepts can be taught in classrooms and workplace training.