Cornell University’s Faculty Senate has voted “no confidence” in the school’s leadership over its handling of sexual assault allegations on campus.

Schools are often a hub for food waste: Parts of lunches brought from home don’t get eaten, or perhaps the cafeteria menu isn’t all that appetizing.

Borrowers around the country are turning to private lenders to help pay for college since the Trump administration imposed new limits on federal student loans.

Four men named in a former Cornell University student’s lawsuit are joining a co-defendant’s effort to block New York’s attorney general from leading a reopened criminal investigation into the woman’s gang rape allegations.

The Department of Justice has filed a complaint against Penn State University challenging its policy of offering in-state tuition rates to some immigrants in the country illegally, part of a sweeping crackdown by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Brevard County’s school superintendent is stepping down. Dr. Mark Rendell will become the new vice president of Workforce Education at Eastern Florida State College.

Mass protests have drawn huge crowds across France, including Paris, demanding higher wages and supporting the student protest movement.

Community colleges in Arizona are offering a free, three-month semiconductor crash course that leads to interviews with major tech companies.

Osceola County voters delivered a major win for their local school district by approving a new property tax to fund teacher salaries, safety personnel, and student extracurricular programs. The vote marks the first-ever operational millage for Osceola County schools.

A former Manhattan federal prosecutor who oversaw high-profile sex crimes cases against music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and fashion executive Peter Nygård will lead a reopened criminal investigation into gang rape allegations at Cornell University.

Students using Google software in schools will not be allowed to use Google search unless their school system also provides them access to artificial intelligence tools.

Ormond Beach city commissioners are set to vote on a $2.5 million purchase of the former Osceola Elementary School site, with plans to convert the 11.6-acre property into a public park before it can be sold to residential developers.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Harvard University over its alleged failure to provide admissions records that the Justice Department demanded to ensure the Ivy League school stopped using affirmative action in admissions.

Parents in Marion County are demanding answers from Ocala Christian Academy after a fifth-grade teacher was arrested last week for admitting to taking pictures up a young girl’s skirt. Parents say they want to know why the teacher was allowed back in the classroom after initial reports from a parent.

The college basketball season tips off with many players unexpectedly gaining an extra year of eligibility.

The holiday season is a great time to escape into a bookstore and find the perfect gift for kids.

French authorities have expressed relief after recent protests over rising living costs resulted in less violence than previous weekends.

Lake County Public Schools is working to notify the families of some 1,800 students that their education records were shared with someone unauthorized to receive them.

An Oberlin College professor and his wife are dead, and the educator’s 31-year-old child is being held on a $3 million bond and facing murder charges in their deaths.

Bard College in New York's Hudson Valley has opened a center dedicated to Ralph Ellison, a key figure in Black arts and literature.

The eligibility chaos playing out in lawsuits and courthouses all over the country has reached the basketball season.

The provost of Dartmouth College has resigned after a faculty committee found that he used artificial intelligence in his writing, including in a Washington Post guest column on AI cheating.

Department staff discovered the breach on Oct. 19, tracing the intrusion to its financial aid website. The department says current financial aid disbursements, tuition payments, scholarships, grants, and student loan eligibility will not be affected.

A state judge is considering whether social media posts by New York’s attorney general should disqualify her from leading a criminal investigation into gang rape allegations at Cornell University.

A review of Promethean video boards conducted after one fell on a Brevard County elementary school student and killed him shows “no pattern of improper installations.” District superintendent Dr. Mark Rendell told school board members Tuesday that the district finished its review of the more than 3,000 video display boards at the county’s schools.

Cornell University says it will review how it handled the co-ed housing assignment of a student who returned to campus after serving a suspension connected to an alleged gang rape at a fraternity house.

Villanova University is deepening its ties to the Vatican, thanks to its famous alumnus, Pope Leo.

France’s government has pledged to replace its national online university admissions platform in 2028.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower-court ruling that prevented portions of a Mississippi ban on diversity, equity and inclusion from being enforced.

A man accused of killing a North Carolina college student 14 years ago has been convicted of first-degree murder, rape and other charges.

Defense attorneys for the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk have suggested a 2029 trial date.

The beloved children's musician Raffi continues to charm audiences with his timeless songs.

The Trump administration is moving to end its legal fight to overhaul a popular student loan forgiveness program.

A teacher wounded in last week’s attack on a special education classroom at an Oregon elementary school says she never had a chance to try to shelter any of the children inside.

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella says he is leading a cultural shift by removing exhibits from the National Museum.

Polymarket has removed a contract from its prediction market platform that allowed users to wager on whether any of the seven men accused of raping a Cornell student in 2024 will be charged with a felony sex crime.

A woman who accused seven Cornell University students of raping her at a fraternity house says the university’s president questioned why she waited to report the alleged assault, leaving her feeling disbelieved and unsupported.

Orange County Public Schools has lost about 8,000 students since October 2025, including roughly 5,000 immigrant students, raising questions about the role of immigration-related fears and what the district can do to reverse the decline.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about race in middle school admissions.

Many American scientists are being recruited by foreign universities holding out offers of stable funding and academic freedom.

A special-needs teacher and student wounded in a deadly shooting at an Oregon elementary school remained hospitalized Saturday, but friends said their survival was a spot of hope in a community in mourning.

Newly-released 911 calls from the city of Palm Bay detail what school employees say led up to a video screen falling and killing an elementary school student last week. The caller tells a dispatcher that the boy was kicking the video screen. They had noticed the screen attachment was loose a week before and asked to have it repaired.

A roof collapse at a private school in Peshawar, Pakistan, has killed at least 34 children and a teacher.

The Istanbul governor’s office has declared schools closed and placed some public sector workers on leave after heavy rainfalls caused flooding across the city.

Hundreds of thousands of Irish teachers, doctors and civil servants have walked off the job.

Greta Thunberg has thrown her support behind high school protesters in France.

News 6 has compiled a list of the latest "book bans" from across Central Florida as state leaders push for districts to take more initiative.

When Volusia County voters approved a half-cent sales tax in 2014, Read-Patillo Elementary School was slated to receive a new building. But in the district’s 2025-2026 plans, the project is now listed as “TBD.” Parents are demanding to know why.

Every morning, children walk across a busy Central Florida highway to get to school, and parents say drivers aren’t always paying attention. Now, with a plan to consolidate two Belleview elementary schools, some families fear the situation is about to get worse.

A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance.

Parents and families at Riviera Elementary School in Palm Bay are grieving and demanding answers after a young boy was killed when a Promethean board fell from a wall onto him Wednesday. At pickup Thursday, many parents were emotional. Some said they were uncomfortable speaking on camera but shared the same concerns: How did the board fall, who is responsible and are other boards in the district safe?

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died.

Marion County school officials are moving forward with a roughly $150 million project to build a combined grade 6-12 campus in Dunnellon, but rising interest rates mean taxpayers will foot nearly $38 million of that just in interest alone.

Thousands of young people have been arrested in France during protests demanding better school funding, drawing criticism that police tactics are excessively violent and are politicizing young protesters.

An effort to address decades of underfunding at some historically Black college and universities kicked off Wednesday with a lawsuit against the state of Missouri.

Some of the guardrails for children that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product do not work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children.

A lawyer for the woman who says she was gang raped at a Cornell University fraternity says she was “misled” by authorities about the status of the criminal investigation in the weeks after she first went to police.

Thousands of Brazilian students have marched in Rio de Janeiro against the possibility of Flávio Bolsonaro winning the presidency.

The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a $70,000 fee for international students who are seeking to work in the United States.

Some of the students furious over the handling of an alleged fraternity house gang rape at Cornell University are directing their ire at the school’s president.

Cornell University trustees have announced that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will review how the university handles sexual misconduct complaints.

Osceola County School District is taking a significant step to combat student vaping, planning to install vape detectors across multiple middle and high schools using money from the county’s opioid settlement fund.

More than a quarter of a million people have marched in cities across France in support of school pupils demanding more education funding, increasing pressure on the government of outgoing President Emmanuel Macron.

A federal appeals court has heard arguments over whether a judge had the authority to restore billions of dollars in funding that the Trump administration cut from Harvard University.

A new study from PEN America reveals that there were nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools over the past year, the highest since tracking began five years ago.

The Florida Department of Health is moving forward with its push to remove the requirement for four vaccines for children entering schools, but has dropped its attempt to expand exemptions for the immunization requirements.

A wave of solidarity has surged on social media in support of a young woman who is suing Cornell University and seven fraternity members she accuses of raping her.

Cornell University’s president has called the alleged gang rape of a student at a fraternity house in 2024 “deeply disturbing.”.

Lake County voters will decide in November 2026 whether to increase an existing school property tax that helps pay for school safety, student mental health services and teacher compensation.

A woman who says she was gang-raped at Cornell University testified at a campus hearing that she “felt like bait” as the attackers were “like lions around me.”.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says the woman who accused members of a Cornell University fraternity of gang rape was “failed” by people obligated to protect her, including police and the county prosecutor.

The Justice Department found Thursday that the law school at the University of California, Los Angeles, illegally considered race in admissions.

New York’s governor has appointed a special prosecutor to oversee an investigation into a woman’s allegations that she was gang raped at a Cornell University fraternity house, saying she had lost faith in the local district attorney’s ability to handle the case.

The Trump administration has proposed rules for a new federal scholarship program that launches at the start of next year.

France's prime minister has convened a crisis meeting to address nationwide protests by high school students.

A former fraternity leader at Northern Arizona University has been sentenced to two months in jail and three years of supervised probation for his role in a deadly hazing.

A gang rape allegation at Cornell University has brought fresh scrutiny to the Ivy League school’s history of misconduct and reforms in the Greek system.

A woman who filed a lawsuit saying she was sexually assaulted by seven men at a Cornell University fraternity house told campus police that she could “say with 100% confidence I was raped.”.

Carnegie Mellon University announced Wednesday that hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin is donating $3 billion, with the bulk of the money to be used to start a new campus in Miami that will focus on societal challenges.

The Defense Department has decided to stop appointing civilians as tenured faculty at U.S. military academies.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for an investigation into Cornell University's handling of a 2024 gang rape allegation.

The Florida Department of Education has announced that new science standards may be coming for students in the state.

Parents of Head Start preschoolers are lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill, worried proposed changes by the Trump administration threaten the backbone of the federal preschool program.

A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit.

The plight of more than 500 million children in desperate need of an education has been one of the key issues on the sidelines of this week's annual meeting of world leaders at the United Nations.

The Trump administration has shifted the approach to civil rights enforcement in American schools.

Italy’s conservative government on Thursday has approved a school decree limiting classrooms to 30% of students with insufficient Italian-language skills and banning full-face Islamic veils, including burqas and niqabs.

The Oxford English Dictionary has officially added over a dozen Caribbean words."

Schools in Seminole County are testing a new security system that uses mobile panic buttons to help with response to emergencies on campuses. The wearable panic buttons allow teachers and staff to call for help or trigger a lockdown from any location on campus.

Right now, Orange County Public Schools said it has about 20 openings available for the 98 unassigned educators. The district told News 6 it has until Oct. 2 to fill those vacancies. Educators who are not placed by then will be let go, though the district said they will be notified if openings become available later.

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration directive that would have barred some immigrants from accessing Head Start preschools, plus other federal programs.

Maps can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else.

News 6 has compiled a list of the latest "book bans" from across Central Florida.

The Florida Board of Education on Wednesday passed rules for the use of artificial intelligence in K-12 public schools and state colleges, including parental consent and a prohibition on using AI for certain graded assignments.

Charlie Kirk’s family is blaming Utah officials for failing to prevent the conservative activist’s assassination at a state university.

Federal authorities have charged a dozen people for fraudulently collecting over $10 million in childcare payments without having actual attendees at their facilities.

First lady Melania Trump is visiting northwestern North Carolina to talk to elementary school students, teachers and staff about how they’re using technology in the classroom.

As the new school year kicks in, the debate around student AI use is raging.

Jason Eaton insisted he was acting on orders from the CIA and Mossad when he shot three Palestinian college students who were walking past his home a few days after Thanksgiving.

Proponents of the Protect College Sports Act are pushing to pass the legislation through the Senate before the chamber breaks in the coming weeks.