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Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford isn't shy about pushing a non-traditional education agenda.It’s based on his own life experience.He's in favor of…

Citing his experience at many levels of education and his work on new, national Common Core standards, the State Board of Education unanimously chose Tony…

Wendy Pedroso has never liked math, but for most of elementary school and middle school she got B’s in the subject.It wasn’t until ninth grade at Miami…

Shakira Lockett was a pretty good student in elementary, middle and high school. The Miami-Dade County native says she typically earned As and Bs in…

The StateImpact Florida reporting team covers education across the state by focusing on how the policies affect the individual students.

If you're interested in the future of education in Florida and our nation, there's just one place you want to be on Oct. 10 -- next to your radio and/or…

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was in Sarasota Thursday, laying out his ideas for improving the economy. Romney’s five-point plan included an education plank. Romney praised former Gov. Jeb Bush and

Student-teacher ratios at K12, the nation’s largest online educator, are nearly twice as high as Florida’s state-run virtual school, according to internal company documents obtained by the Florida Center for

Seminole County teacher Amy Capelle had to make a decision. Her supervisor at the nation’s largest online school, K12, asked her to sign a roster saying she’d taught 112 kids. She’d

NPR's Tell Me More is holding a Twitter Education Forum (#npredchat) to engage influencers, policymakers, journalists, and activists, and most importantly educators, parents, and students – in a continuing conversation about education reform.

Editor’s note: This story was written by Trevor Aaronson with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. Executives for K12, the nation’s largest for-profit online educator, discovered in May that the

Editor’s note: This story was written by Trevor Aaronson of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and John O’Connor with StateImpact Florida. Florida’s Department of Education has launched an investigation