StateImpact Florida

Last week, StateImpact Florida told you how a middle school in Miami has added speech and debate courses this year to improve reading, writing and…

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed federal complaints against school districts in Broward, Hernando, Hillsborough and Volusia counties over the…

Lily Eskelsen Garcia is the first Latina elected to lead the country’s largest union – the National Education Association.Thursday was her fourth day on…

Gov. Rick Scott is ready to take the federal government to court over testing rules for students learning English.The U.S. Department of Education says…

I finally know my worth as a teacher—and now that the “value-added model” scores mandated by our state legislature are public, everyone else knows,…

Fifty years ago Bob Moses organized volunteers to register voters in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer.And for decades, Moses has been fighting for…

The for-profit college chain Corinthian Colleges is closing or selling most of its 107 campuses and online programs.

Students and civil rights activists are still asking Florida to hold black and Hispanic students to a higher standard.It’s been a little more than a year…

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

More than four dozen contemporary young adult and children’s authors were in Florida over the weekend for Miami Book Fair International.As Common Core…

Standing at the water’s edge on Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay campus, Nicholas Ogle shows a crowd of teenagers what looks like a giant,…

Community college students are needlessly assigned to remedial math classes to learn lessons they won’t use during their studies, according to new…