Florida sues textbook companies, claiming they overcharged some schools

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/19 5:47A Skyler Swisher

Florida officials are accusing two publishers of systematically overcharging some school districts for textbooks, including more than $279,000 billed to Osceola County schools. The state is taking...

Oklahoma ideology test for teachers from New York and California draws criticism

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/19 5:24A Associated Press

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JAMIE STENGLE Oklahoma will require applicants for teacher jobs coming from California and New York to pass an exam that the Republican-dominated state s top education official says is designed to safeguard against...

South Florida childhood vaccination rates plunge. Who is vulnerable, and why?

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/18 1:00A Cindy Krischer Goodman

Despite an outbreak of measles last year in a Weston elementary school, Broward County saw a dramatic drop in its immunization rate for kindergartners in 2025. In Broward, only 82.2% of 2024-25 kindergartners got their required vaccinations — the...

Microschools are growing in popularity, but state regulations haven’t caught up

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/17 3:20A Tribune News Service

By Robbie Sequeira, Stateline.org When Siri Fiske founded the Mysa Microschool in Washington, D.C., in 2016, there wasn’t a widely accepted term for her small, one-room schoolhouse model. Related Articles Where are the students? Enrollment drops...

Where are the students? Enrollment drops in new places in Broward schools

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/17 1:00A Scott Travis

Broward s efforts to improve student performance and convert elementary schools into K-8 academies are showing no signs of reversing a decades-long trend of plummeting enrollment. The school district...

Critics say Trump’s push for fairness in college admissions is leaving out legacy preferences

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/15 4:00A Associated Press

By COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump attempts to reshape college admissions , he’s promising a new era of fairness, with an emphasis on...

For these incarcerated students, online school has been a disaster

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/14 7:10A Associated Press

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS, AP Education Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — To earn his freedom, 15-year-old Cayden Gillespie had to complete three school assignments a day. But school had gone virtual for...

Multiple Texas students are injured in a school bus rollover crash on the first day of class

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/14 2:04A Associated Press

LEANDER, Texas (AP) — A Texas school bus carrying more than 40 students on Wednesday rolled over after veering off a rural road on the first day of class, injuring multiple students, authorities said....

Trump administration ordered to restore some withheld grant funding to UCLA

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/13 10:08A Associated Press

By JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in National Science Foundation grants it has withheld from the University of California, Los Angeles, saying they were made in...

How Florida’s new education chief is rattling schools with public threats

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/13 6:32A Jeffrey S. Solochek

The  X post  by Florida’s education commissioner caught Hillsborough County school district officials off guard. It showed the cover of a book, “Trans Mission,” which commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas said was filled with unspecified...

Broward’s first day of school running smoother than last year

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/11 6:42A Scott Travis

Broward schools reported few issues on the first day of school Monday, a stark contrast from a year ago when new metal detectors left thousands of high school students waiting in long lines and...

Decades-old Florida desegregation case ends

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/11 6:20A Jim Saunders

TALLAHASSEE — A federal judge last week approved ending a Hendry County school-desegregation lawsuit that started in 1970, after the U.S. Department of Justice and the district agreed that “vestiges of the prior de jure segregation” had been...

Free breakfast and lunch for all Palm Beach County students this school year

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/11 5:41A Lauren Brensel

All Palm Beach County students will keep receiving free breakfasts and lunches for the 2025-2026 school year, according to the school district. “This helps ensure that every child has access to the healthy meals they need to be successful in the...

Back to school in South Florida: What to know about new rules and campuses in 2025

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/10 1:00A Scott Travis

South Florida students are heading back to school for a new year that will include some new schools and some new rules. Broward and Palm Beach counties begin the 2025-26 school year on Monday, while...

College endowment tax is leading to hiring freezes and could mean cuts in financial aid

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 8/8 6:11A Associated Press

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY A big increase in the tax on university endowments is adding to financial uncertainty for the wealthiest colleges in the U.S., leading several already to lay off staff or...