Education

Answering the question of how the state would handle standardized testing this year, the Florida Department of Education issued an emergency order Friday…

Florida lawmakers are trying again to limit the salaries of local school board members. The idea is one that’s been tried before. Now a proposed constitutional amendment would ask voters to decide whether to keep paying locally elected officials who oversee the state’s public schools.

CPR from a bystander can double or triple a person’s likelihood of survival following a sudden cardiac arrest. But not everyone knows the steps. A measure under consideration this session would make training a requirement for graduation.

In an effort to offset COVID-19’s impacts on Florida’s education system, a Senate committee Tuesday gave bipartisan support to a proposal that would…

House and Senate budget leaders are eyeing cuts to higher education spending, but early recommendations would go about it in different ways.A Senate…

The school district says it must make the cuts, or risk not being able to pay its staff by summer.

The Florida Senate this week could drastically overhaul a controversial proposal aimed at reducing state Bright Futures scholarships for students in degree programs deemed unlikely to lead to jobs.

According to a fall 2020 report, post-secondary enrollment is on the decline, down 2.5%, nearly double the decline in 2019.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing a $106 million civics education initiative for Florida's public schools, supporting civics literacy and education. “I’m...

Republican Sen. Dennis Baxley’s plan to revamp the state’s bright futures scholarship program is moving again after a significant re-write of the bill.