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Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 5/22 8:31A Associated Press
By COLLIN BINKLEY and MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration revoked Harvard University s ability to enroll international students in its  escalating battle  with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of...

Supreme Court tie vote dooms taxpayer funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 5/22 4:18A Associated Press
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) —  The Supreme Court  on Thursday effectively ended a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, dividing 4-4. The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a...

On education, DeSantis’ Florida paved the way for Trump’s America

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 5/20 7:58A Dana Goldstein
When it comes to education, the United States under President Donald Trump increasingly looks a lot like Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Supreme Court is poised to allow parents to opt their children out of school lessons they oppose on...

Broward schools to teach sex ed in final days of year

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 5/19 9:46A Scott Travis
Broward students will get to learn some lessons about human sexuality before they leave for summer vacation. The Broward school district has gotten approval from the Florida Department of Education to teach sex education next week, which is the...

How Miami schools are leading 100,000 students into the AI future

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 5/19 7:26A Natasha Singer
MIAMI — One morning in April, Tracy Lowd, a social studies teacher in Miami, tried a new approach to making government policy come alive for her high school students. She used artificial intelligence...

DeSantis gets dozens of bills including those on school start times, dangerous dogs

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 5/17 1:44A News Service Of Florida
The Legislature on Friday formally sent about 60 bills to Gov. Ron DeSantis, including a measure that would back away from a requirement about starting high-school classes later in the morning. The measure ( SB 296 ) would largely undo a 2023 law...

Student loans have been confusing lately. Here’s a guide to know where you stand

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 5/16 6:56A Associated Press
By ADRIANA MORGA, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Between collections resuming, courts blocking student loan programs and layoffs at the Education Department , borrowers might be confused about the status of their student loans. Recently, the...

Broward school district to end universal free lunches, raise lunch prices

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 5/14 6:28A Amanda Rosa
Broward County Public Schools will no longer offer free lunch to all students this upcoming school year. At Tuesday’s meeting, the school board was informed that the surplus of federal funds that had been used to offer free lunch throughout the...

As reading scores fall, states turn to phonics — but not without a fight

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 5/10 3:30A Tribune News Service
By Robbie Sequeira, Stateline.org As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not whether reading instruction needs fixing, but how to fix it. More than a dozen states...
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