desegregation

Thousands of students have left Florida’s public schools amid an explosive growth in school choice. Now districts are reckoning with the financial realities of empty seats in aging classrooms.

While gentrification continues to consume Newtown’s historic Black neighborhood, Sarasota's first African American mayor remains as an advocate and protector for the tight-knit community.

The Tampa Bay History Center is marking a half century of desegregation in Hillsborough County schools with a panel discussion this week.

Florida schools are beginning to re-segregate by race and income, that’s according to a new public policy report . Highly segregated schools are found...

The iconic images of school integration show determined black students making their way through jeering white crowds, just to take their seats in class....

The Pinellas County School District has issued a response to a Tampa Bay Times investigation into the district's lowest performing schools -- saying, "…

The Tampa Bay Times just completed an investigation into a group of low-performing elementary schools in black neighborhoods of southern Pinellas County…

Lou and Lolita Brown are brother and sister, born about eight years apart - just a big enough separation to give them very different life…

This weekend marks the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education — the Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools were inherently unequal...