The cost of college just went up by an unexpected $1,500 for some of Florida’s top students. Recipients of the highly competitive, merit-based Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship have received letters from the state this month saying the federal government is no longer funding the awards. About 1,400 students in Florida and 28,000 nationwide received [...]

The already dysfunctional relationship between City Hall and the School District of Philadelphia was further complicated this week when the Public School Notebook published a leaked draft version of the district’s “rightsizing” plan, which calls for closing as many as two dozen schools over the next two years. From a political point of view, the [...]

I ran a piece by Etienne R. LeGrand earlier this year that sparked a lot of discussion here on the blog. LeGrand is president and co-founder of the W.E.B. Du Bois Society, whose mission is to transform the lives of more African-American youth through increased academic ambition. She sent me this piece that I wanted [...]

SALEM – On a dramatic tie vote of 30-30, the Oregon House defeated legislation that would loosen enrollment restrictions on online virtual schools in the state. Immediately after the vote, legislative leaders for both parties held closed-door caucuses to discuss whether the bill might be revived and how to proceed on the rest of a [...]

The state budget likely to be approved by Wednesday will mean that the School District must find another $35 million in cuts on top of those already made, District officials said Tuesday. To close a $629 million budget gap, the District has made more than 3,000 layoffs and slashed programs and services including school counselors, [...]

LAKE WORTH — Palm Beach State College remains committed to building a fifth campus despite the fact that Gov. Rick Scott recently vetoed the $7.3 million the school planned to use to help build it, the school’s board stressed at a workshop this morning. The five-member board met at the Lake Worth campus to discuss [...]