FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUCATION

Board members voted to withhold some funds and offset federal grants that "support noncompliance" with state rules.

Board members voted to withhold some funds and offset federal grants that "support noncompliance" with state rules.

The decision is the latest development in the showdown between DeSantis and local school districts.

The State Board of Education has given two Florida school districts 48 hours to drop their mask mandates.

Less than two days after the Florida Board of Education (BOE) ruled two school boards violated Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order and the state’s Parents’ Bill of Rights Act by imposing mandatory mask mandates and are subject to sanctions, three more districts have adopted similar policies.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is now facing a revolt from a growing number of school districts - including some of the largest in the country - that have passed tough mask mandates for the new school year despite his administration's threat to sanction them. On Wednesday, three districts voted to impose tough masking mandates: Miami-Dade County, the fourth largest in the country; Hillsborough County, the eighth largest; and Palm Beach County, the 10th largest after a meeting that lasted m

Three major school districts voted for mask mandates on Wednesday despite sanction threats by the DeSantis administration.

The DeSantis administration contends that the Alachua and Broward county public schools did not allow parents to opt their children out of the mask mandate.

The statement appears to clarify penalties mentioned in DeSantis' executive order, which threatened to withhold funding from school districts that enact mask mandates.

With a new school year just weeks away in Miami-Dade and Broward, emergency rules set on Friday by the Florida Board of Education became the latest salvos in the cash over masking.

Judge finds US discriminated on farms, but don’t tell the kids by at MiamiTodayNews.com.

It’s either chutzpah or hypocrisy, maybe both, that leads Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran and the Florida Board of Education to crack down on our children’s history lessons. First, they spread fear that our kids will actually learn that (gasp!) the United States has not always been purely mom and apple pie. Then, satisfied they’ve sufficiently whipped up hysteria, they require a civics ...

PARKLAND, Fla. – The parent of a student who was killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting has been tapped for a seat on the Florida Board of Education. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he has appointed Ryan Petty to the position. Petty's daughter, Alaina, was one of 14 students and three faculty members killed in the Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The appointment is not a complete surprise, given his efforts to improve school safety in the aftermath of the shooting. He unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the Broward County school board in 2018.