Category: Education

A day after Gov. Ron DeSantis described the Broward School District as a “disaster,” School Board members held a pair of news conferences Tuesday, inviting the district to be subjected to a state DOGE audit. School Board member Adam Cervera, a DeSantis appointee who has become increasingly vocal about recent district management missteps, held a solo news conference late in the morning to request the state’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to conduct “a whole-scale review... Read More

Vanderbilt University reaffirmed its intention Monday to build a version of its Owen School of Management in downtown West Palm Beach. Along with the commitment, top university officials said they’re launching a second fundraising appeal, this time for $250 million after assembling sufficient funds to start a project that had a reported initial goal of $300 million. The South Florida business school campus has been more than two years in the making for the Nashville,Tennessee-based... Read More

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday excoriated the Broward School District for a “laundry list of failures” and suggested it’s been so impervious to reform that placing it in receivership might be an option to fix it. “Honestly, it’s been a disaster. Let’s just be honest, it’s been a disaster in many different ways. It is really run more to benefit the entrenched interests, particularly the school unions, rather than the parents and the students,” DeSantis said at a news... Read More

Two high-level Broward schools administrators, including one who has already announced her resignation, are facing personnel investigations as a result of an audit that revealed failures in the district’s attempt to hire a company to oversee district construction, Superintendent Howard Hepburn said. The district’s human resources department is investigating Jennifer Andreu, executive director of procurement, and her boss, Chief Operating Officer Wanda Paul, Hepburn told School Board... Read More

Editor’s note: This article was written by Dr. Aarti Raja, a professor at Nova Southeastern University, in collaboration with South Florida Sun Sentinel staff writer Cindy Krischer Goodman. Antibiotic resistance has become an increasingly fatal problem that South Florida college students are trying to solve. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in 2019, antimicrobial resistance killed 1.27 million people worldwide and nearly 5 million deaths were associated with... Read More

Celebrants participate in an African dance at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center during “Africa Rising,” a Kwanzaa Community Celebration of Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) on Saturday, December 27, 2025. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel) Celebrants gathered at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center during “Africa Rising,” a Kwanzaa Community Celebration of Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) on Saturday, December 27, 2025.... Read More

The Broward School District bungled its latest effort to find outside managers to take over its troubled construction program, an audit has found, raising questions about how the district will ensure more than 100 school projects don’t face further delays. Superintendent Howard Hepburn plans to ask the School Board to vote Tuesday to reject all bids received from companies vying to oversee the district’s construction projects, following the report drafted by Chief Auditor John Rhodes,... Read More

A third Broward County high school basketball coach was arrested Friday after he was of accused of improperly renting out school gyms and profiting nearly $3,000 from it. Coral Springs High School girls’ assistant basketball coach Donald Calloway, 49, faces charges of organized scheme to defraud $10,000 or more and grand theft in excess of $10,000 but less than $20,000, according to a probable cause affidavit. Two other coaches were arrested on similar charges Wednesday: Henry Lewis... Read More