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Florida’s expansion of vouchers for families who want to enroll their children in private schools is leading to tighter budgets at public schools across the state.

Education leaders watching how immigration policies affect schools expect classrooms to get emptier every year, but this year, they were caught off guard by falling enrollment rates in some of Florida’s largest districts.

Colleges and universities across the country are under extreme pressure, financially and politically. Their students are feeling stressed out, too.

Head Start relies on federal grants to provide free, essential early-learning services to low-income students and families.

Returning from summer break, University of North Florida professor John White was caught off-guard by the urgent news, relayed by administrators, that the state ordered certain taboo words to be removed from all class syllabi or course descriptions in the university’s teacher-education department.

The state had more than 2,300 titles taken off shelves last school year, according to data released by PEN America, an organization fighting against the law enabling book challenges.

The NAEP test compares student proficiency in math, science, reading and writing state-by-state.

In a Faculty in the South survey conducted by various conferences of the American Association of University Professors, 31% of Florida respondents said they have applied for a job outside of Florida since 2023. That number was 25% among all survey respondents in the South.

Now, school districts with programs aimed at lifting up Black students, and others, are finding themselves legally vulnerable. The White House is pursuing a reversal of the federal government’s traditional role on race and schools, going after what it calls “illegal DEI,” or diversity, equity and inclusion.

The publishers sell textbooks and other learning materials to K-12 schools throughout the country.

A federal judge has ruled that a key part of a 2023 Florida law that led to books being removed from school libraries is "overbroad and unconstitutional."

The federal government has frozen $396 million in funding for Florida schools and other educational groups.