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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.

One provision of a sweeping state education law allows for a library, community service organization, museum, performing arts venue, theater, cinema or church to house a school.

Between July and December 2022, the free speech advocacy group PEN America reports Florida school districts banned 357 titles.

Thousands of students who have dropped off public school rolls are unaccounted for, according to an analysis. They did not move out of state and did not sign up for private or home school.

School board campaigns officially are non-partisan races, but this year — more than ever — politics is front and center. What’s at stake for parents, teachers, students and voters when state politics comes to public school boards?

They range from proposed funding for public schools to money that would go toward cancer research.

The Jefferson County School District will no longer have its finances overseen by the state. Jefferson was placed under state financial control for the second time in 2016, a decision that came after years of the district running in the red.

The budget proposal also represents a significant investment toward making sure every child can read by the third grade.

Several people who testified in favor of the bill advocated for the removal of books that they said contained sexually explicit content or material that was not age-appropriate.

The school board did not reverse its decision to not renew four charter school contracts, despite pressure from the state’s education commissioner.

Public schools across Florida must have a policy in place by the end of the year allowing students to use medical marijuana on campus, or they will risk...

A sharply divided Florida Supreme Court rejected a nearly decade-old lawsuit Friday that claimed the state isn't living up to its constitutional…