StateImpact Florida

Florida’s "A-F" system for school grades has been fraught with controversy.Supporters say it’s a way of holding schools and districts accountable. Critics…

A handful of public schools in Florida have either all-girls or all-boys classrooms. More could be coming.Rep. Manny Diaz, R-Hialeah, is behind a bill…

With January just around the corner, here are some of the education stories expected to be in the headlines in 2014.IMPLEMENTING NEW COMMON CORE…

From Common Core, to Florida's next standardized test and changes to high school graduation requirement, education was a top story time and again this...

When Allison Rojas looks at a painting by Alice Neel, the high school junior sees more than a seated woman in a purple sari.“She uses very bold lines as…

Uzelea Evans has had a tough run recently.Her unemployment payments have been hung up for six weeks because of the state’s new online system.And the…

To get into Florida colleges and universities, you have to have studied — or speak — a second language.But — Florida students don’t have to take foreign…

More than 200 people gathered at Hillsborough Community College Tuesday evening to speak their minds about Florida’s new K through 12 education standards,…

The Florida Department of Education is asking communities to weigh in on the Common Core standards in public schools.The state is hosting three public…

There are fewer custodians and support staff in Florida public schools than there were in 2007.A StateImpact Florida analysis of jobs in Florida public…