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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott is vetoing nearly $400 million from the state's new budget.Sco...
TALLAHASSEE, FLA. (Florida News Network) -- He's not actually using the "V-word," but Governor Rick Scott is dr...
TALLAHASSEE (Rick Flagg and Alan McBride/FLORIDA NEWS NETWORK) -- It would appear that the governor's plan to give every ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott is signing into law a sweeping education bill that rolls back graduati...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Chinese Consulate in New York says a Chinese national was among those killed in the marathon bombin...
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man who killed a 10-year-old girl he snatched off her bike on her way to school has been executed...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A proposal aimed at elevating the role of parents in charting a turnaround for failing public schools ma...
The Universtity of Florida Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a health insurance mandate for future students. Thi...
(ABC NEWS) -- A University of North Carolina sophomore who accused a fellow student of rape says she's facing possible ex...
Reprinted by Samantha Shavell / WUFT NewsGAINESVILLE -- During a press conference Monday morning in UF’s Nanoscale Rese...
The University of Florida is aiming to become one of the top public universities with the help of Gov. Rick Scott’s new...
ATLANTA (AP) — A 14-year-old student was wounded in a shooting at a middle school Thursday, and a suspect was taken int...
MIAMI, Fla. (AP) -- The governor’s office has announced that every member of the Florida College System offering four-y...
MIAMI, Fla. (AP) -- The governor’s office has announced that every member of the Florida College System offering four-y...
MIAMI (AP) — Governor Rick Scott is expected to announce additional state colleges that are accepting his challenge to ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Rick Scott is seeking a pay raise for Florida's teachers after spearheading a success...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott is asking state lawmakers to put aside money in the coming year to giv...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's high school graduation rate is the highest since 1976, but more than a fifth of stud...
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN (ABC NEWS) -- A California high school teacher is being hailed a hero for talking a 16-year-old shooter in...
Bernie Machen will not retire, and has agreed to remain as UF President. Gov. Rick Scott and UF Board of Trustees Chairman Da...
A bomb threat mailed to Trenton Elementary School will keep students in all Gilchrist County Schools home for the day. School...
By ARLETTE SAENZ / ABC NEWSDec. 18, 2012Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder today vetoed a bill that would have invalidated "gun f...
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN and ERIN KEOHANE / ABC NEWSNEWTOWN, Conn. -- Dec. 18, 2012Local officials closed a Newtown, Conn., element...
By ALYSSA NEWCOMB/ABC NEWSPresident Obama will visit Newtown, Conn. today to meet with the grieving families and thank the fi...
Twenty children died today when a heavily armed man invaded a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and sprayed staff and student...
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, CANDACE SMITH and CHRISTINA NG / ABC NEWSDec. 14, 2012Twenty childlren died today when a heavily armed m...
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, CANDACE SMITH and CHRISTINA NG / ABC NEWSA heavily armed man invaded a Newtown, Conn., elementary school...
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A shooting at a Connecticut elementary school Friday left 27 people dead, including 18 children, ...
TAMPA (AP) -- Indiana's recently ousted state school superintendent was hired Wednesday as Florida's new education co...
TALLAHASSEE (AP) — Florida education officials are pleased with the first vocabulary test results from the National Ass...
By MARK GREENBLATT/ABC NEWSNov. 26, 2012Jason Sobek says he left his job as admissions supervisor at the nation's second-...
450 persons turned out at the Reitz Union, protesting several recent events. Pictures surfaced from a Beta Theta Pi ''...
from ABC NewsAccording to Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the solution to the growing grumbling over re-vamp...
from ABC NewsChicago's first teachers strike in 25 years will come to an end after a week and a half when the teachers un...
from ABC NewsChicago teachers went on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after their union and district officials f...
from ABC NewsThe negative effects of binge drinking are well-known, which makes the findings of new research released today l...
from ABC NewsLax loan standards have left many college graduates struggling to repay private student loans, according to a ne...
Alachua County schools will set up an anonymous "bullying hotline" by the time school begins again in the fall. Stu...
UF President Bernie Machen has told trustees that he will need to make up to $4 million in additional budget cuts. He sai...
Alcohol,not marijuana, is the gateway drug that leads adolescents down the path toward more serious substances. That's th...
Statistics were released Wednesday. 13 schools from Alachua County received an "A" grade and six"B's"...
Florida A&M's dean of students wanted to suspend the school's marching band for hazing three days before Robert Champ...
Vanguard High School in Marion County will be allowed a student-run Gay-Straight Alliance. Tuesday the Marion County School B...
Vanguard High School in Marion County will be allowed a student-run Gay-Straight Alliance. Tuesday the Marion County School B...
The 9 % increase approved by the Board of Governors was the lowest requested in Florida. FSU students will pay 13 % more.
Former offensive coordinator Mark Whittemore is the new head football coach at Buchholz High School replacing Matt Kerstetter...
After a 1-9 record in his first season, coach Matt Kerstetter is out of a job. Buchholtz had five different quarterbacks last...
The Board Of Trustees is proposing the maximum increase allowed under state law. If approved by the State Board Of Governors,...
The ACLU is suing Marion County Superintendent of Schools Jim Yancey as well as the Alachua County School Board. They say Yan...
She's sometimes been controversial. Marion County School Board member Jackie Porter will try to beat out Wally Wagoner an...
Four new cases of chickenpox have been discovered. One of the four cases is at Santa Fe High School where 139 students have n...
25 year old Andrew Noell is accused of travelling to Alachua County late Tuesday night to meet who he would thought would be ...
The Marion County School Board votes Tuesday on Francis Marion Military Academy's request. Meanwhile the school hopes to ...
A committee of the Florida Board of Governors has rejected UF's new undergraduate fee. They say it amounts to a back-door...
Florida's $70 billion dollar state budget is expected to be approved Friday and it includes 3.6 % more funding for sc...
Marion County voters will be asked in Novembe whether they favor a one mill school tax to pay for academics and capital proje...
Police in Austin, Texas have arrested 26-year old John Peter Bateman of Austin in connection with Monday morning's bomb t...
GAINESVILE POLICE IS INVESTIGATING A BOMB THREAT AT GAINESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL -- SCHOOL IS BEING EVACUATED -- KEEP LISTENING TO...
from ABC NewsOfficials say students were shot at a northeastern Ohio high school and a suspect is in custody.Civil deputy Eri...
The City of Ocala has been ordered to continue to provide electricity and water services for Marion County schools. City of O...
Two Gainesville girls have left Gainesville High School after being accused of posting a racist video on the internet. Eight ...
An Ocala mother has been ordered to pay the principal of Dr. N.H. Jones Elementary School $75,000. A jury ruled that Caro...
from CNNThe University of Florida has temporarily suspended its chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity after learning abou...
Five Marion County girls and two boys accused of beating a female classmate unconscious on a school bus have been charged wit...
It appears the idea of a four day school week for Marion County schools is not going to 'fly'. Superintendent of School Jim Y...
Litgation has ended between the City of Gainesville and the Alachua County School District. The School Board has agreed to fo...
Last summer the School Board voted to implement a four day school week for the 2012-2013 school year. School Board Member Bob...
Marion County School Superintendent Jim Yancy wants an Emerald Shores Elementary Teacher to be fired and the School Board agr...
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