Education

Volusia County School leaders are exploring options to help recruit and retain teachers. One idea involves helping them find an affordable place to live in the community. To do that, the school board is considering continued work with the local agency Homes Bring Hope.

Some schools in Seminole County are switching to an app called Minga. It works as a digital ID, a timed hall pass, an event notification service, and more, and it’s garnered some mixed reactions from parents and students.

The University of Florida, Florida State University, and the University of South Florida dropped in U.S. News and World Report’s new rankings of public universities, while the University of Central Florida maintained its ranking.

The family of Kaia Rolle, the 6-year-old Orlando girl handcuffed and arrested at a charter school in 2019 is now filing an amended lawsuit.

Nearly 123,000 new students have received private-school vouchers after state lawmakers this year passed a major expansion of voucher programs, while a group that administers the programs says they will not bring an "exodus" from public schools as critics have predicted.

Florida's state university system voted to accept the Classic Learning Test as an alternative to the SAT and ACT for college admission, according to the Florida Board of Governors.

Donelle Evensen informed Flagler Schools Superintendent LaShakia Moore that she is resigning from her post. Moore has called on the school's former principal, Marcus Sanfilippo, to return to the campus in an interim role.

Parents are speaking out after they say, their son was hazed in the locker room at Viera High School and forgotten about.

A mother is suing Orange County Public Schools for allegedly failing to provide her daughter who has learning disabilities with the tools needed to learn. She's even taken her child out of public school and put her into private school.

The University of Central Florida is closing campus on Wednesday ahead of Hurricane Idalia's anticipated landfall along the Gulf Coast on Wednesday.

Here's a running list of school closures in Florida ahead of Idalia's anticipated landfall along the Gulf Coast.