The governing body that oversees high school athletics in Florida could soon approve a proposal that would allow high school athletes to be paid through business agreements such as endorsement deals. The Florida High School Athletic Association held a discussion on Tuesday about a potential…
Read More FHSAA Considers Compensation For Florida High School Student Athletes
A new six-week restriction on abortion took effect this week, representing a seismic shift in abortion access for Floridians. Meanwhile, Florida health-care regulators Thursday released emergency rules related to treating medical conditions that pose dangers to the lives of pregnant women or unborn children. The…
Read More Florida Abortion Restrictions Take Hold
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed bills that include seeking to prevent “indoctrination” in teacher-training programs and beginning to allow credit unions to hold state money. The teacher-training bill (HB 1291) was one of the most-controversial education issues of this year’s legislative session, which…
Read More Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Teacher Preparation Restrictions
Some Florida state universities have ramped up security and issued advisories for graduation ceremonies amid an already heightened police presence on campuses because of a wave of student protests. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations stemming from the war between Israel and Hamas have led to the arrests of…
Read More Florida College Graduation Events Draw Security, Advisories
Triumph Gulf Coast earlier this month surpassed the milestone of distributing more than $550 million in grant awards stemming from the BP oil spill settlement, with much of the funding going toward schools in an effort to boost the North Florida region’s local workforce. The…
Read More BP Money Aims To Bolster North Florida Workforce Training
Florida’s public school students of all ages are in line to get lessons about the history of communism and could get programs and services from volunteer chaplains, under bills signed by DeSantis this week. The change that will go into effect first will involve chaplains…
Read More Florida School Anti-Communist Education Backed And Signed By DeSantis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a measure that will authorize school districts to allow volunteer school chaplains to provide services to students, amid opposition from the American Civil Liberties Union. Speaking at a high school in Osceola County alongside Republican allies and a…
Read More Amid ACLU Opposition, Florida Gov. DeSantis Ok’s Volunteer School Chaplains For Students
Flanked by veterans who served in the Bay of Pigs invasion, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a measure that will lead to the history of communism being taught in grades as low as kindergarten. The governor, standing behind a placard that read “anti-communism education,”…
Read More Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Communism History Bill
The Florida Polytechnic University Board of Trustees on Monday chose Devin Stephenson to become the school’s second president, succeeding Randy Avent who is slated to step down in July. Stephenson, who is president of Northwest Florida State College in Niceville, was selected in a 7-6…
Read More Stephenson Picked For Florida Polytechnic University President
A federal judge last week rejected arguments by the state that a law restricting teachers’ use of their preferred pronouns is a “pedagogical” decision and blocked enforcement of the measure against one educator, saying it violates the First Amendment. The controversial 2023 law restricted educators’…
Read More Federal Judge Blocks Florida Teacher Pronoun Law, Calling It A “Pedagogical” Decision