Broward schools end ‘Smart Bond’ program as a new referendum is considered

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/31 3:50A Scott Travis

The SMART Bond program, a school renovation effort that became a symbol of waste and mismanagement for the Broward School District, is coming to an end — at least by name. The School Board agreed in 2023 to set an end date of Oct. 31, 2025, for...

New College of Florida may be first to sign Trump’s university pledge

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/30 12:00A Lucy Marques

New College of Florida may soon be the first public university in the country to sign President Donald Trump’s higher education agreement. The compact offers preferential tax benefits and funding to schools that agree to follow the Trump...

DeSantis wants Florida universities to ‘pull the plug’ on H-1B staff from foreign countries

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/29 6:03A Steven Walker

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wants to pull the plug on H-1B visas at state universities , arguing the program meant to recruit top talent from foreign countries wrongly takes jobs away from Floridians. Almost 400 employees from foreign...

Florida’s ‘anti-communism’ curriculum criticized as ‘propaganda’ by experts

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/28 12:00A Steven Walker

Florida could soon be teaching students about the dangers and evils of communism under proposed new academic standards that some argue amount to propaganda and wrongly aim to rehabilitate the reputation of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who pushed the Red...

Florida historian Jim Clark, UCF lecturer and journalist, has died

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/27 8:51A Dewayne Bevil

Jim Clark , a UCF senior lecturer, author, historian, political commentator and longtime Orlando Sentinel journalist, has died after a heart attack at his home in Orlando. He was 78. Clark was a native of Washington, D.C., and grew up in Chevy...

‘Total mistake’: $2.6 million Broward schools office rental raises questions amid budget concerns

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/24 2:36A Scott Travis

Broward Schools have agreed to pay $2.6 million over the next five years to rent space in an office building for 75 employees, despite the district facing severe budget cuts and having plenty of room at underenrolled schools. The decision also...

Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/23 5:44A Associated Press

By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After decades of gradual growth, the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions,...

Congressional members seek to save Latinos in Action program in Broward

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/22 12:00A Scott Travis

Some federal lawmakers are asking the Trump administration to reconsider ordering Broward schools to end a program focused on empowering Latino youth, saying the demand was based on a grossly inadequate and incomplete investigation. Four...

How a transformative change in charter school rules came back from the dead and became Florida law

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/19 12:00A Anthony Man

A new Florida law allowing select charter school operators to set up their programs within the walls of traditional public schools, rent free, is a lesson in power, politics, money — and how the three...

How charter schools may use new rules to share space with A-rated district-run schools

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/18 1:00A Scott Travis

A program once pitched as a lifeline for families stuck in failing schools has now morphed into one where charter schools are vying to occupy vacant space in existing schools, even ones that are A-rated. Schools of Hope, which are a special type...

Anti-bullying parade and education event in Fort Lauderdale | PHOTOS

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/14 3:39A Amy Beth Bennett

More than a hundred local students participated in the Anti-Bullying Parade and Education Event hosted by Broward County Parks on Monday, Oct. 13, at Roosevelt Gardens Park in Fort Lauderdale. The Dillard High School Marching Band led the...

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation donating $50 million to historically Black Atlanta colleges

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/13 6:35A Associated Press

By MICHAEL WARREN ATLANTA (AP) — The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation announced a $50 million donation to Atlanta’s historically Black colleges and universities on Monday, aiming to close financial aid gaps that might otherwise prevent students...

Education Department layoffs hit offices that oversee special education and civil rights...

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/13 6:17A Associated Press

By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings , threatening new disruption to the nation’s...

Law aimed at punishing Trump protesters is used against UF fans who rushed football field

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/13 4:32A Olivia Evans

GAINESVILLE — Four exuberant football fans who rushed the field after the University of Florida s upset win over Texas are facing first-of-their-kind, felony trespass charges under a new law a Republican senator said was intended to punish...

When human bones turn up in South Florida, this professor and her students get the call

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 10/13 2:00A Shira Moolten

The discovery of what appeared to be a human femur and pelvic bone might have unnerved the construction workers who unearthed them near Lake Worth Beach last week, but for Dr. Heather Walsh-Haney and...