EDUCATION

A fatal crash is under investigation near Lake Minneola High School in Lake County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

New polling finds America’s college campuses are seen as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes to free speech.

Head Start programs serving more than 10,000 disadvantaged children would immediately lose federal funding if the government shutdown isn't averted.

A 22-year-old former employee of an Orange County middle school was arrested in an investigation led in part by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

The Biden administration is releasing a playbook on best practices for training workers as the low 3.8% unemployment rate and years of underinvestment have left manufacturers, construction firms and other employers with unfilled jobs.

Algeria is among many countries in Africa to take steps to transition parts of its education system away from French and toward English.

This Getting Results Award winner has a track record of providing aerospace companies with qualified workers.

The Biden administration is asking America’s colleges to step up their efforts to make campuses more racially diverse.

A new study by Study.com ranks U.S. states where teachers might want to move — and Florida placed in the top 10.

A new federal rule threatens to cut federal money to college programs that consistently leave graduates with low pay or unaffordable debt.

Shai Reshef, president and founder of the online, tuition-free University of the People, and Arizona State University professor and researcher Michelene Chi, who has developed a framework to improve how students learn, are the 2023 winners of The Yidan Prize, the biggest award in education.

Michigan State has fired Mel Tucker, saying the suspended football coach failed to present adequate reasons why he should not be fired for cause after having what he described as consensual phone sex with an activist and rape survivor.

What started more than 20 years ago as a small pilot program is now a thriving non-profit organization serving individuals with neurological motor disabilities.

More students in schools serving low-income communities will be eligible to receive breakfast and lunch at no cost under a rule change announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The U.S. military, employers and economic development specialists have been raising alarms about the implications of American students' low math scores for the country's competitiveness and national security.

In a district where addressing student discipline has been a top priority for its school board, Brevard Public Schools is now taking a look at some new school safety recommendations.

Mel Tucker’s attorney says Michigan State does not have cause to fire its suspended football coach after Tucker acknowledged having phone sex with an activist and rape survivor because he did not “engage in unprofessional or unethical behavior” or violate his contract.

Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advantages for teacher recruitment.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several bills aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ+ people.

The escalating cost of college tuition has been a growing concern for students and their families, with affordability differing from state to state.

The family of a Black high school student in Texas has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general over being suspended by his school district for his hairstyle.

Louisiana folklorist Nick Spitzer and Mississippi blues musician R.

Earlier this year, DeSantis signed SB-846 into law, which prohibits schools affiliated with a foreign country of concern from participating in Florida’s school choice scholarship programs.

President Joe Biden’s education chief says he’s open to using “whatever levers” are available — including federal money — to discourage colleges from giving preference to the children of alumni and donors.

Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood is urging parents to check their children’s backpacks and “see what the hell they’re doing” after several guns have been found at schools.

The debate over whether a Black high school student in Texas should be serving in-school suspension for wearing twisted dreadlocks to class has intensified as the student’s family and his school district both took legal action.

An Alabama high school band director says he was just “doing my job” when police officers arrested him and shocked him with a stun gun after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game.

An author's clash with a Georgia school district over a brief mention of homosexuality in a presentation highlights the reach of conservatives' push for what what they call parents' rights.

The Florida State University System’s Board of Governors will discuss a proposal by UCF to close down three of its campuses during a Wednesday meeting.

West Point has been sued in federal court for using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the lawsuit that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions.

With Central Florida's booming population growth, workers skilled in construction and design are in high demand.

Police body camera video shows an Alabama high school band director being shocked with a stun gun and arrested by officers in front of screaming students, in a chaotic scuffle that broke out after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game.

Two schools in Central Florida received the coveted National Blue Ribbon award, the U.S. Department of Education said.

Suspended Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker says he's “disappointed — but not surprised” that the school intends to fire him for misconduct involving activist and rape survivor Brenda Tracy.

The Biden administration says Tennessee and nearly every other state with historically Black land-grant universities have missed out on $12.6 billion in funding over the last three decades.

The ranking uses 2021 data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, taking a look at the number of college graduates in each county.

A Black high school student in Texas has been punished with an in-school suspension over his hairstyle for over two weeks, his mother said.

The commitments were far-reaching and ambitious.

Thousands of South Korean school teachers are calling for tighter legal protections from bullying by parents, a rising problem in a country known for its brutally competitive school environments.

West Virginia University has given final approval to wide-ranging cuts in academic programs and faculty positions.

The minimum base salary for full-time classroom teachers and certified prekindergarten teachers in Florida will be no less than $65,000 starting next July, subsidized by the state’s education department itself; that is, if a bill filed last month in the House were to reach past the governor’s desk.

Belgium authorities are getting worried by a series of school arsons believed to be connected to newly mandatory school sessions in some parts of the country.

A Memphis, Tennessee, couple who took in former NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher when he was in high school denied in court documents filed Thursday that they used a legal agreement between them to get rich at his expense and lied about intending to adopt him.

Two shootings three decades apart at the University of North Carolina show how much has changed.

The National 4-H Council is growing in a new direction – online – by launching its e-learning platform Clover with a collaboration with Netflix and its new movie “Spy Kids: Armageddon.”.

Osceola County’s school district is getting rid of a program that automatically gave students public library access because of concerns about state law and the parental choice movement.

A majority-Black Mississippi school district has received a judge’s approval to shed federal supervision in a desegregation lawsuit that dates back to 1965.

An administrator at Bunnell Elementary School, who had been on leave since a controversial assembly singled out Black students with low test scores has resigned, according to Flagler Schools.s.

A Southern California school district will pay $2.25 million to settle the latest lawsuit involving a teacher who became pregnant by one of at least two students she was accused of sexually abusing.

Principal Donelle Evensen resigned from the district on Thursday amid the district's investigation over an assembly for black students discussing low test scores.

Students and teachers are sweltering in public schools across Puerto Rico and demanding that the government install air conditioners as the U.S. Caribbean territory bakes under record heat this year.

The first day of school is providing challenges for major U.S. cities that are struggling with the influx of tens of thousands of migrants.

Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte and Kimiko Hahn are among this year’s winners of awards from the Poetry Foundation, which announced some of poetry's most lucrative prizes.

The principal of Bunnell Elementary School, who had been on leave since a controversial assembly that singled out Black students with low test scores, has officially resigned, according to Flagler Schools.

More than 9,000 books were discovered in a room. Here's how they will find new life on another continent.

The University of Florida was named the top U.S. public university in the 2024 America’s Best College Rankings, published Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal.

A high school diploma gives graduates a leg up in the workforce, even if they don't pursue any further education.

A co-founder of Moms for Liberty, a “parental rights” group that has sought to take over school boards in multiple states, has been appointed to the Florida Commission on Ethics.

The investigation coming to a close into the two Bunnell Elementary School leaders accused of isolating black students in an assembly to discuss low test scores, according to Superintendent Lashakia Moore.

Faculty at West Virginia University have approved a symbolic motion expressing no confidence in President E.

A California judge has halted a school district policy that requires parents be notified if their children change their gender identification or pronouns at school.

An unprecedented infusion of aid money the U.S. government provided to schools during the pandemic has begun to dwindle.

Flagler County Schools removed the interim titled and named Lashakia Moore the district’s next superintendent Tuesday evening.

Helping teachers of young kids gain confidence in math could be one key to unlocking America’s post-pandemic math recovery.

More libraries are cutting ties with the American Library Association as the professional group stands up for books some say children shouldn't have access to because of their content.

West Virginia University is recommending slashing its language department and dozens of other programs amid a $45 million budget shortfall.

British lawmakers have headed back to Parliament after their summer break but thousands of U.K. children won’t be returning to their classrooms this week.

For people looking to find a home to raise a family in, choosing a county is an important decision.

Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are criticizing the school’s response to a campus shooting that killed a faculty member.

Young students who were hit hardest by the pandemic are entering the upper grades of elementary school.

Children across Russia have returned to school, where the Kremlin’s narratives about the war in Ukraine and its confrontation with the West are taking an even more prominent spot than before.

An atmosphere of joy mixed with sorrow sets the tone for the start of the new school year in Ukraine.

The fallout is still settling after an assembly last month at Bunnell Elementary School that allegedly singled out Black students.

An assistant high school football coach in Washington state who lost his job during a controversy over his public post-game prayers was back on the field after the U.S. Supreme Court held his practice was protected by the Constitution.

A vision of putting an armed guard at every school in Texas is crashing into the reality of not enough police or funding.

A 911 recording indicates police in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, quickly received the name and description of the accused shooter just after a professor was fatally shot this week.

More than 50 years after a Vietnam War-era bombing on the University of Wisconsin campus that killed a researcher, the FBI has released age-processed photographs of a suspect who has evaded law enforcement for more than half a century and been referred to as “Wisconsin’s state ghost.”.

Yale University President Peter Salovey says he will step down next year and plans to return to the school's faculty.

U.S. colleges are searching for solutions as they see alarming numbers of students arrive with gaps in their math skills.

The white supremacist shooter who killed three Black residents over the weekend at a dollar store in Jacksonville, Florida, stopped beforehand at the state’s first historically Black college.

A school shooting that frightened students and left one faculty member dead at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has galvanized gun safety advocates.

The Biden administration is canceling $72 million in student loans for 2,300 borrowers who say they were cheated by Ashford University, a former for-profit college that was purchased by the University of Arizona in 2020.

The government of President Daniel Ortega described the Jesuit-run University of Central America in Nicaragua as a “center of terrorism” and seized its property, buildings and bank accounts on August 16.

Authorities say a University of North Carolina graduate student walked into a classroom building, shot his faculty adviser and then left.

Across the country, schools are scrambling to catch up students in math as post-pandemic test scores reveal the depth of missing skills.

Authorities say a faculty member was shot and killed in a University of North Carolina building.

California's attorney general has sued a Southern California school district over its new policy that requires schools to notify parents if their children change their gender identification or pronouns.

Idalia prompts school closures in Marion County.

Idalia prompts school closures in Central Florida.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden shook hands with middle schoolers on their way to lunch and dropped by an eighth grade math class Monday to welcome students back for the new school year.

While the Sunshine State placed at No. 10 overall, the report lists Florida as a state with a “sizable system” of universities and community colleges.

While college and university tuition costs may be skyrocketing, a bachelor's degree remains essential to many high-paying jobs across the United States.

When classes resume for kids in eight states, they won’t have to worry about where their next meals will be coming from because they’ll be free.

In a video announcement, SCPS Superintendent Serita Beamon and Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma discussed the new measure, which is aimed at improving classroom safety.

Yale University is settling a federal lawsuit that said the Ivy League school discriminated against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring them to withdraw.

SeaWorld Orlando is once again offering free admission to Florida certified teachers for the next year.

Across the country, books and lessons that represent different families and identities are increasingly the target of conservative pushback — even when they're for the youngest of learners.

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition says it will digitize 20,000 archival pages related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' education policies have faced wide criticism from civil rights leaders and educators, among others, but they also have paid off politically.

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