EDUCATION

The future of Broward County School Public Schools Superintendent Vickie Cartwright is still unknown.

Schools contending with soaring student mental health needs and other challenges have been struggling to determine just how much the pandemic is to blame.

The Mississippi Department of Human Services is changing its demands against retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre in a lawsuit that seeks repayment of misspent welfare money.

Tensions over gender identity and sexual orientation pervade the campuses of hundreds of U.S. Catholic and Protestant universities.

Two college students have won $100,000 in tuition after a confusing finish in the SEC championship game’s halftime competition.

Broward County Public Schools confirmed Friday that two previously scheduled early release days will be regular school days to make up for the days students missed school during hurricane season.

The Supreme Court says the Biden administration program to cancel student loans will remain blocked for now, but the justices have agreed to take up the case in late winter.

A flag flap has come to the Miami-Dade School Board, and it involves fling the American flag at schools and outlawing others.

Yale University is being accused of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring some to withdraw from the prestigious institution and then placing “unreasonable burdens” on those who seek to be reinstated.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg welcome Broward School Board Chair Lori Alhadeff, Broward Schools Superintendent Vickie Cartwright, Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, and Feeding South Florida President and CEO Paco Velez.

Broward County's embattled schools superintendent arrived on the job to a district in chaos.

Last week brought big changes to the direction of South Florida schools, and for Broward County in particular.

The bodies of more than 80 Native American children are buried at the former Genoa Indian Industrial School in central Nebraska.

Florida Gov. Ron Desantis has appointed a new member of the Miami-Dade County School Board.

The Broward County School Board is in a state of turmoil and has been for several months.

Despite an influx of COVID-19 relief money, school districts across the country have struggled to staff up to address students’ mental health needs that have only grown since the pandemic hit.

The four University of Idaho students who were stabbed to death near campus last weekend were more than just college students and crime victims.

The University of California, Berkeley’s law school on Thursday joined the law programs at Harvard and Yale in pulling out of U.S. News & World Report’s rankings over concerns that they punish efforts to attract students from a broad range of backgrounds.

The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the president’s student debt cancellation plan, according to a legal filing.

There is no playbook to instruct how athletic departments are to respond to the tragic death of one of their athletes.

Chinese authorities locked down a major university in Beijing on Wednesday after finding one COVID-19 case as they stick to a “zero-COVID” approach despite growing public discontent.

President Joe Biden is facing mounting pressure to extend a pause on student loan payments after his cancellation plan suffered a pair of legal blows.

Students hid inside laboratory closets and dorm rooms across the University of Virginia after getting warnings of an active shooter.

The Broward County School Board voted five to four on Monday night to fire Superintendent Vickie L. Cartwright.

A federal appeals court St. Louis has thrown up another roadblock for President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness.

President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers lost another battle in court on Monday when a federal appeals court panel agreed to a preliminary injunction halting the program while an appeal plays out.

Nearly 48,000 unionized academic workers at all 10 University of California campuses have walked off the job, demanding better pay and benefits.

A new group of Rhodes scholars from the U.S. has been chosen for the prestigious academic program in a selection process that was conducted online for the third consecutive year.

President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness has been blocked by a second federal court, leaving millions of borrowers wondering if they’ll get debt relief at all.

A U.S. judge in Texas has blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness.

The former Yale University women’s soccer coach whose cooperation with authorities helped blow the lid off the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal by leading the FBI to the scheme’s mastermind has been sentenced to five months in prison.

Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse has won final approval to become the 13th president of the University of Florida, capping a swift and sometimes contentious process.

Fraternity parties are temporarily suspended at Cornell University after reports that a student was sexually assaulted over the weekend and four others were reportedly drugged in recent weeks.

Japanese video game maker Nintendo has reported a 34% surge in its profit for the first half of the fiscal year on strong sales of products for its Switch console like “Splatoon 3,” a paint-shooting game.

School choice — allowing taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition instead of only financing public schools — has become another front in the partisan battles over education this election season.

As growing numbers of schools move to limit student access to cellphones, many are navigating pushback from parents.

All this week, we've been introducing you to Local10’s five Eco-Hero finalists.

Virginians have used a tip line that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin set up to submit complaints about curriculum, remote learning, controversial books, mask policies, teachers and other topics.

With less than a week until the Midterm Elections, Miami-Dade school officials want to make sure voters don't miss an important item on the ballot.

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz has been formally sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Millions of students have begun trooping back to public schools across the Philippines.

President Joe Biden’s education secretary has tested positive for COVID-19.

A new campaign in France allows young children to flag abusive attacks by simply dropping letters in easily accessible mailboxes across the country, for experts to assess.

Families of the 17 children and staff members Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz murdered have concluded their first day of confronting him in court.

The Biden administration is moving forward with an overhaul of several student debt forgiveness programs, aiming to make it easier for borrowers to get cancellation if they are duped by their colleges or if they put in a decade of work as public servants.

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education.

A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the use of affirmative action in higher education.

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison this week, but not before the families of the 17 people he murdered get the chance to tell him what they think.

When the Supreme Court takes up the issue of affirmative action again Monday, it'll be for the second time in six years.

The University of North Carolina was once a bastion of segregation.

A coroner rules Celia Marsh died after eating a Pret a Manger vegan wrap with traces of milk.

“Education is a family affair”: It’s all about the children. Wiggins is seen hear reading to students at Collins Elementary School in Dania Beach , Florida. In his quest to lift up our young people, Rev. Wiggins has been engaged in educating students everyway he can. Paul R. Wiggins is seeking election for the Broward County School Board, District 1 Seat in 2022.

Long after Covid is gone, countries that closed schools longer and didn’t teach well online will do worse than others.

A former Chicago Public Schools administrator who founded the city’s charter school program will take the helm next month as the new superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Chicago, church officials said Monday.

It’s not surprising then that the value of higher education is often reduced to dollars and cents or that people are questioning whether it’s worth the cost. Such commitments are a step in the right direction, but they are only one of many necessary steps on the road to racial justice. Much of the conversation on accountability for racial equity in higher education focuses on using quantitative data to close access and attainment gaps. BioKayla C. Elliott, Ph.D., is director for higher education policy at the Education Trust. Inside Higher Ed received financial support from the Gates Foundation for coverage of the foundation’s report on the value of higher education.

President Joe Biden has faced mounting criticism from fellow Democrats over his approach to the situation, and for not being more critical of Israel.

The 4-year-old boy, who has not been identified, was found dead in the middle of the block before 7 a.m. CT Saturday, according to police.

May 16—A female dog named Charis recently received a special treat marking her one-year anniversary at the Effingham County Humane Society. But Charis had something else to bark about. She was going to be picked up later by her newly adopted family. Charis was a little feisty at her party. There were quite a few new faces she had never seen before, according to ECHS Adoption Coordinator Angie ...

An Italian judge accused of taking bribes to free mobsters from prison is at the centre of an arms trafficking investigation after allegedly amassing a huge arsenal of illegal military-grade weapons. A new arrest warrant was issued for Giuseppe De Benedictis, after police discovered one of the largest private stashes of weapons ever confiscated in Italy. The Bari judge was already facing corruption charges after police bugged gangsters bragging about buying him for 30,000 euros. It comes as Italy reckons with the ongoing influence of organised crime in a mafia "super-trial," in which more than 350 alleged mobsters and their collaborators will face justice. It is the biggest mafia trial since the 1980s. The arsenal was hidden beneath a rural farmhouse among the olive and almond groves north of Bari. When police lifted the cellar's heavy iron lid, which had been soldered shut, they discovered nearly 200 different weapons, including Kalashnikovs, AR15s, UZI, Socimi and Beretta machine guns, pump action shotguns, CZ and other semi-automatic pistols, hand grenades, 100,000 rounds of ammunition, and even an anti-tank mine. Anti-mafia authorities are now investigating whether some military equipment may have been stolen from the Italian army to be sold on the black market. Prosecutors believe Mr De Benedictis and an Italian army officer may have been helping organised crime gangs move illegal arms through the port city of Bari, but the ex-judge maintains the collection was just a side hobby. A known, passionate collector of rare and antique guns, he reportedly firsty told authorities he had dumped any questionable weapons into the Adriatic Sea, but police continued to search for the cache, following leads from wiretapped conversations. According to Lecce prosecutors and the 40-page arrest warrant issued by Investigating Magistrate Guilia Proto, Mr De Benedictis had wiretapped conversations with an Italian Army official in Bari, Corporal Major Antonio Serafino, about how to procure arms and where to hide them. Corporal Major Serafino worked at the passport office of the Italian Armed Forces Mechanised Brigade “Pinerolo” in Bari. The brigade has infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments with access to howitzers and other arms. According to court documents, police bugged his car, and the hidden microphone picked up the sound of machine gun fire from Serafino’s balcony in a Bari suburb on New Year’s Eve, as he and Mr De Benedictis tested out some of their weapons. The same bugs picked up conversations between the judge and the army officer debating about whether and how to move the cache of weapons from the “well” in a rural location. The well turned out to be an underground storage cellar in an outbuilding of a farmhouse near the village of Andria. The arrest warrant issued this week charged the farmhouse owner, Corporal Major Serafino and Mr De Bendictis with illegal arms dealing. It referred to them as “authentic traffickers of weapons of war” which they deny. Prosecutors are in the process of verifying the provenance of the arms to determine if they may have been the property of the Italian Army, and if so, what other public officials might have been complicit in aiding their disappearance.

Longtime friendship with boy and his parents leads to idea of help funding college.

Education is the answer to all our problems, and that’s not a cliché, it’s a fact. I learned from Les Winston of the Endow America Network Foundation, who drew my attention to section 664 of the IRC that there is already a real solution to America’s financial problems.…. he has coined the phrase Social Secharity to explain it. ; We have long since passed that, and so arises the need for Social Secharity. Basically, instead of part of your paycheck going into an SSI account, and the government keeping those funds anyway, you would open up a Social Secharity trust.

Why should I hold on to my vaccination card? Should I let my child play sports? These are coronavirus questions we asked health and science experts.

The University of Florida's graduate programs got the highest cumulative marks of any Florida college in a national ranking by U.S. News & World Report.