Education

Hillsborough schools Superintendent Addison Davis applauded the education commissioner for giving families the same choices they had during the first semester.

The Pasco County School District withdrew its ban on spectators at extra-curricular activities, but some limitations remain in place.

In his first public appearance in almost a month, Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed Monday that Florida's schools will offer e-learning for the second half of the school year, but they must also remain open with an in-person option.

Thanksgiving has come and gone and, as of Friday evening, Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran had not yet issued a new emergency order despite saying he expected to do so by the holiday.

Kevin Giordano found himself back on the St. Petersburg College campus years after graduating.

In the latest effort to stop the spread of COVID-19, the Pasco County School District will not allow spectators at sporting events or musical/theatrical performances beginning Monday, November 23, 2020.

Florida students will be able to continue to learn remotely through the second half of the school year as the state grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said Wednesday.

President-elect Joe Biden is considering forgiving student loan debt for millions of people, but says that the action should take place in Congress.

Trying to end months of legal wrangling, the state is urging an appeals court to keep in place a decision that backed Gov. Ron DeSantis and Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran in a fight about reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As students prepare to head home for Thanksgiving, universities are taking steps to keep young people from spreading COVID-19. Some schools are requiring mandatory exit tests while others are having students finish out the year online.

For hours, dozens of parents spoke at Tuesday’s Pinellas County School Board meeting. Many are still upset their kids are required to wear face masks inside classrooms.

At the beginning of the school year, parents made a choice about which type of learning they wanted for their children amid widespread COVID-19 precautions. While they'd hoped it wouldn't still be an issue by now, school superintendents want to keep one key option in place as infection rates continue to surge.

The Hillsborough County school district says a teacher has died due to complications from COVID-19.

When COVID-19 shut down the country in the spring, some of the brightest engineering minds at the University of Florida's Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World went to work.

There’s a new way for parents and others to separate fact from fiction about COVID-19.

The principal was fired last year after he told a parent he "can't say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event" and added, "not everyone believes the Holocaust happened." Last month, the district voted to rehire him, but now board members say they've changed their minds.