By Jeffrey S. Solochek and Nakylah Carter For most of the last decade, Florida schools have struggled to head off a growing challenge: more and more students are vaping. By 2019, the state identified e-cigarettes among the most used substances among middle and high schoolers, with... Continue Reading
By Lauraine Langreo Nearly one-third of K-12 public schools in the United States now require mental health screening for students, but ensuring that they receive adequate follow-up care after a diagnosis is often much harder, concludes a recent study from RAND, a nonprofit research... Continue Reading
By Fadia Patterson Housing advocates from across the state gathered in Orlando this week for the Florida Housing Coalition’s 38th annual conference, where the organization released its latest Home Matters Report. The findings show that while housing demand continues to climb,... Continue Reading
By Katia Riddle and Allison Aubrey It won't happen here. Not at your school. These are the kinds of reassurances that parents want to give their children when something as horrific as a school shooting happens. But here's the problem in the United States: It could happen. School shootings have... Continue Reading
By STEVE KARNOWSKI, MARK VANCLEAVE and GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO A shooter opened fire with a rifle Wednesday through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis and struck some of the nearly 200 children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two and wounding 17 people... Continue Reading
by Cindy Glover Three weeks into the 2025-26 school year, Polk County Public Schools has about 300 teacher vacancies and 490 long-term substitutes, according to district spokesman Kyle Kennedy. Combined, that’s about 1 in 8 of the district’s 6,200 teaching positions. Not... Continue Reading
By Divya Kumar Amid the crackdown on street art, street murals outside several Hillsborough County schools installed for safety purposes will also be removed. Among the schools with brightly colored crosswalks identified by the state’s transportation department as noncompliant: Rampello... Continue Reading
By Alaijah Brown After a rash of school arrests, Leon County Schools Superintendent Rocky Hanna is fed up with students violating the district's top zero tolerance policy: No weapons on campuses. After a year of launching a "see something, say something campaign," launching AI weapons... Continue Reading
By Delaney Rosenberg How can leaders establish a positive, community-oriented culture for the educators on their team? There is a gaping hole in research literature on this topic, despite the fact that our educators’ perceptions of their work have a direct effect on students’... Continue Reading
By Jim DeLa The Manatee County School Board Tuesday selected one of their own to lead the district as its new Superintendent. Dr. Laurie Breslin, executive director for Student Support and Family Engagement, was the board’s unanimous choice over the other finalist, Dr. Misty Mathis, of... Continue Reading
By Jonathan Grass Osceola County has converted the P.M. Wells charter school into a school for students with intense disabilities and behavioral needs. The school, which is the first of its kind in the district, provides a specialized educational environment for students who previously had... Continue Reading
By Kara Arundel After wildfires destroyed parts of California’s Palisades Charter High School campus in January, students began learning virtually — and then from a former department store converted into a school. By January, the school hopes to reunite on its home campus.... Continue Reading
