State Impact Florida

Next year’s state budget boasts what Governor Scott has called record funding for K-12 education. After deep cuts spurred by the Recession, per-pupil...

Thousands of the most dramatic teenagers in Florida are in downtown Tampa this week for the annual state conference of the International Thespian…

Know the joke about how many college students it takes to screw in a light bulb?Probably not, since it’s not a real joke. Nor is the decision some…

Students who are considered homeless by Florida schools can be living in hotels, trailer parks, in campgrounds or doubled up with friends or relatives.…

During a time when many Florida counties were cutting back on summer school due to a lack of money, Pinellas County started expanding theirs using a…

The first time some students learn about finances is during a high school economics class. Others learn by trial and error, but one program in the Tampa…

It’s just a few dozen yards from the charter busses to the stately columns of the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts entrance.Dozens of energetic 12- and…

Of the more than 600 charter schools in Florida. Some focus on the arts, some on sciences. Others are high schools that help students who are at risk for…