Duval County School Board rejects ‘Schools of Hope’ requests from Mater Academy for 2 DCPS schools
Read full article: Duval County School Board rejects ‘Schools of Hope’ requests from Mater Academy for 2 DCPS schoolsThe Duval County School Board has rejected requests from Miami-based Mater Academy to open charters in two Jacksonville schools under the “Schools of Hope” law.
Judge blocks Trump administration from purging DEI-related terms from Head Start grant applications
Read full article: Judge blocks Trump administration from purging DEI-related terms from Head Start grant applicationsA federal judge has directed the Trump administration to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from Head Start grant applications and barred it from laying off any more federal employees in the federal Office of Head Start.
Trump officials and Louisiana put an end to another decades-old school desegregation order
Read full article: Trump officials and Louisiana put an end to another decades-old school desegregation orderThe Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a campaign to end court orders they describe as outdated.
As a shooting unfolded at Brown, students turned to anonymous app for answers before official alerts
Read full article: As a shooting unfolded at Brown, students turned to anonymous app for answers before official alertsAs a shooting unfolded at Brown University on Dec. 13, students turned to the anonymous app Sidechat to document fear, confusion and grief in real time — often before receiving official alerts.
Clay County School Board addresses member’s inflammatory social media comments amid public outcry
Read full article: Clay County School Board addresses member’s inflammatory social media comments amid public outcryThe Clay County School Board is expected to address on Thursday a controversial social media post made by a board member in December.
Trump administration funding threats set child care providers and parents on edge
Read full article: Trump administration funding threats set child care providers and parents on edgeThe Trump administration’s crackdown on the $12 billion Child Care and Development Fund, which subsidizes care for 1.4 million children from low-income households, has rattled child care providers and families that rely on the aid money.
Winter storms bring snow, ice and school and road closures to New England. More bad weather's coming
Read full article: Winter storms bring snow, ice and school and road closures to New England. More bad weather's comingMessy winter weather brought snow, ice, freezing rain and dangerous driving to the New England states as the region prepared for more unpleasant conditions later in the week.
Trump officials loosen strings on federal education money for Iowa. More states could follow
Read full article: Trump officials loosen strings on federal education money for Iowa. More states could followThe Trump administration is giving Iowa more power to decide how it spends its federal education money.
Nassau County woman says she learned lunch debt for students, teachers is up to $200K. Here’s how she’s trying to help
Read full article: Nassau County woman says she learned lunch debt for students, teachers is up to $200K. Here’s how she’s trying to helpA Nassau County woman was recently inspired to find a solution when she learned that thousands of children and teachers in the district carry debt from school lunch costs.
Duval County School Board adds Schools of Hope to legislative agenda amid parent concerns
Read full article: Duval County School Board adds Schools of Hope to legislative agenda amid parent concernsDuval County School Board voted 4-3 to add Schools of Hope to their legislative agenda during a meeting on Tuesday night. Schools of Hope is a controversial law that allows charter schools to share space with underutilized public schools.
Shooter who killed Brown students and MIT professor planned attack for years, DOJ says
Read full article: Shooter who killed Brown students and MIT professor planned attack for years, DOJ saysThe U.S. Department of Justice has revealed that the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor planned the attack for years.
‘Respect the stop’: DCPS, Farah & Farah launch PSA initiative as new data raises concerns over school bus safety
Read full article: ‘Respect the stop’: DCPS, Farah & Farah launch PSA initiative as new data raises concerns over school bus safetyBefore Duval County Public Schools students return to class on Wednesday, DCPS and Farah & Farah will launch a new public education initiative on Tuesday, urging drivers to stop for school buses and slow down in school zones.
Trump officials bar Head Start providers from using 'women' and 'race' in grant applications
Read full article: Trump officials bar Head Start providers from using 'women' and 'race' in grant applicationsThe Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant applications, including “race,” “belonging” and “pregnant people.”.
What to expect from CES 2026, the annual show of all things tech
Read full article: What to expect from CES 2026, the annual show of all things techWith the start of the New Year squarely behind us, it’s once again time for the annual CES trade show to shine a spotlight on the latest tech companies plan on offering in 2026.
College football's Urban Meyer joins board of Florida college transformed by DeSantis
Read full article: College football's Urban Meyer joins board of Florida college transformed by DeSantisCollege football Hall of Famer Urban Meyer has been appointed to the board of trustees at New College in Sarasota.
Greece cuts student population at universities by half after long study breaks are abolished
Read full article: Greece cuts student population at universities by half after long study breaks are abolishedGreek authorities have removed more than 300,000 inactive university students from public university records.
Community leaders call for accountability over Clay County School Board member’s inflammatory social media comments
Read full article: Community leaders call for accountability over Clay County School Board member’s inflammatory social media commentsMore community leaders in Clay County are calling for accountability after a controversial social media post about “the African American community” by a member of the School Board.
Protesting students in Serbia urge support for early election they hope will oust Vucic
Read full article: Protesting students in Serbia urge support for early election they hope will oust VucicProtesting university students in Serbia have collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election.
Number of Duval County schools targeted as Schools of Hope down to 2: Jax Today
Read full article: Number of Duval County schools targeted as Schools of Hope down to 2: Jax TodayMonths after saying it was planning to open charters inside 25 existing Duval County public schools under the “Schools of Hope” law, Miami-based Mater Academy withdrew 23 of those letters of intent this month, according to a report from our news partner, Jacksonville Today. A DCPS parent shared her thoughts on the development.
Clay County NAACP joins demands for resignation of school board member after controversial remarks
Read full article: Clay County NAACP joins demands for resignation of school board member after controversial remarksThe Clay County chapter of the NAACP has joined calls for the resignation of a school board member who is under fire for controversial social media posts about the African American community.
Florida education commissioner calls out Clay County School Board member for ‘discriminatory social media post’
Read full article: Florida education commissioner calls out Clay County School Board member for ‘discriminatory social media post’A controversial social media post by a member of the Clay County School Board captured the attention of the Florida Commissioner of Education on Monday, and he’s calling for the board member to explain himself at a State Board of Education meeting next month.
Brown University police chief placed on leave after fatal shooting, feds launch investigation
Read full article: Brown University police chief placed on leave after fatal shooting, feds launch investigationBrown University has placed its campus police chief on leave as it reviews security policies following a tragic shooting.
Jacksonville private school faces setback after $200K in technology stolen from new location under construction
Read full article: Jacksonville private school faces setback after $200K in technology stolen from new location under constructionMinds of the Future Academy, a STEAM-focused Jacksonville private school with 150 students, was nearly ready to move into the permanent “dream” space it had spent years searching for. Then burglars struck the property last week, leaving the school looking to its community for help.
Clay County School Board to address board member’s controversial remarks about Black people being ‘rude,’ ‘problematic’
Read full article: Clay County School Board to address board member’s controversial remarks about Black people being ‘rude,’ ‘problematic’A Clay County School Board member has responded to a video of another board member that showed him making controversial remarks about African Americans.
Avoiding the ‘winter slide’: Tips for parents to keep kids learning during the holidays
Read full article: Avoiding the ‘winter slide’: Tips for parents to keep kids learning during the holidaysWinter break is a time for family and fun, but experts warn students can lose academic skills during the holidays. Learn simple, affordable ways to keep kids engaged and prevent the ‘winter slide.'
A brief encounter, two attacks and then a break in investigations into the Brown and MIT shootings
Read full article: A brief encounter, two attacks and then a break in investigations into the Brown and MIT shootingsInvestigators are still trying to figure out much of what Claudio Neves Valente was doing in New England in the weeks before they say he opened fire in a Brown University lecture hall and later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
A little-known diversity visa program is paused after the Brown University shooting
Read full article: A little-known diversity visa program is paused after the Brown University shootingThe Portuguese suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings came to the U.S. through the diversity immigrant visa program.
Trump administration will appeal judge's order reversing federal funding cuts at Harvard
Read full article: Trump administration will appeal judge's order reversing federal funding cuts at HarvardThe Trump administration is appealing a federal judge’s order reversing billions of dollars in funding cuts to Harvard University.
Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials say
Read full article: Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials sayOfficials say a man who is suspected in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility.
Brown University attack suspect died 2 days before his body was found, autopsy finds
Read full article: Brown University attack suspect died 2 days before his body was found, autopsy findsAn autopsy has found that the man suspected in last weekend’s attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two days when found.
California school district near Nevada caught up in a dispute over transgender athlete policies
Read full article: California school district near Nevada caught up in a dispute over transgender athlete policiesA Northern California school district near the state's border with Nevada is caught up in a dispute over the states' differing policies on the participation of transgender athletes.
