1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (316+ words) Pinellas County schools could see some drastic changes in the future to deal with declining enrollment. During a school board workshop Thursday, Pinellas superintendent Kevin Hendrick discussed closing six elementary schools: Tarpon Springs Fundamental, Kings Highway, Blanton, Azalea, Bear Creek…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (435+ words) When John Kirtley started Step Up for Students, he only had enough funds to serve 700 students. Within the first four months, he had 12,000 applicants. That was 1998. Now in 2026, the state’s school voucher program, the Family Empowerment Scholarship, which Step Up…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (355+ words) Pensacola State College is poised to tap Alex Kelly, Secretary of the Florida Department of Commerce, as the school’s next president. The school’s board of trustees made its recommendation Friday for Kelly to be the sole finalist after a national…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (576+ words) The state of Florida wants to remove four immunizations from entry requirements for PreK-12 public and private schools. The Florida Department of Health is proposing a rule to remove Hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (779+ words) This spring, an independent review of allegations of teacher misconduct at Riverview High School was leaked to a website and shared on social media, in what one school board member described as a violation of state law that must be…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (410+ words) In one of his first moves as education commissioner, Henry Mack has advanced a rule that would block undocumented students from attending the state’s postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) programs. The programs train students in a wide variety of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (425+ words) After a final recount, Nancy Bostock emerged as the winner of Pinellas County's district 6 school board race, beating her opponent Amanda Lord by a mere seven votes. The district encompasses Pinellas Park, Seminole and the coastline from Indian Shores to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (967+ words) Several Florida county school districts have lost their more conservative board members, signaling a potential shift away from the partisan politics that dominated previous elections. In Tuesday night's primaries, Sarasota, Hernando and Pasco counties saw moderate and Democrat-backed candidates win,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1627+ words) Had Florida’s high school marine biology students read the original draft of their textbook, they would have learned about research that found climate change is killing at least 150,000 people per year, and another 1 degree Celsius of warming would double that....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (378+ words) A Lee County public school teacher’s suspension for a comment about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk should be ended and she should receive back pay, an administrative court judge has recommended. “Ms. Roller’s private Facebook post on her personal Facebook…...