Category: Education

Measles is now spreading in Florida, with 68 cases reported in the state already this year. Florida Department of Health tracking shows that as of Feb. 7, the most recent data available, most cases in the state of the highly infectious disease are in Collier County, where, each day, more students and professors at Ave Maria University near Naples are showing symptoms. Although the state’s tracking charts show 45 cases in college-aged students in the area, the university said in a statement... Read More

Broward School Board members are seeking outside legal advice on whether they can claw back bonuses that high-paid administrators received from a voter-approved referendum. It’s far from certain that the School Board has the votes to seek reimbursement, even if a lawyer says it’s legal. But board members say they need to understand their options, after School Board member Allen Zeman said he plans to bring a formal request at the March 10 to require any employee still working for the... Read More

By MAKIYA SEMINERA SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Sandra Mosqueda watched with an amused smile as her 2-year-old son, Atreus, began sweeping the floor with a miniature mop. Atreus is part of the inaugural class of infants and toddlers receiving free preschool in a citywide program in San Antonio, Texas. It’s something his mother doesn’t take for granted. As a child, she herself wasn’t able to start preschool this young. In the case of her two older boys — now in first grade and kindergarten —... Read More

The Broward School District has agreed to return most graduation ceremonies to rented venues after a plan to move them to three high school gymnasiums generated a firestorm of controversy. Superintendent Howard Hepburn issued a memo to Broward School Board members late Friday announcing the change in plans. The School Board heard from numerous students, parents and elected officials at a Wednesday meeting opposing the use of high school gyms. Public speakers questioned why some classes got... Read More

By JAIMIE DING LOS ANGELES (AP) — A conservative group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Los Angeles schools policy meant to address the harms of segregation, alleging that it discriminates against white students. The 1776 Project Foundation, created by the 1776 Project PAC, targeted in its lawsuit a Los Angeles Unified School District policy that provides smaller class sizes and other benefits to schools with predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian or other non-white students.... Read More

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