FSU issues ‘shelter in place’ notice on Tallahassee campus after active shooter report

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/17 6:39A Kathy Laskowski

TALLAHASSEE — Police are responding to  Florida State University early Thursday afternoon after reports of an active shooter on campus. A shelter-in-place notice was issued by the university while an investigation was underway. The school sent...

How war, money and the quest for discovery entwined the US government and universities

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/17 6:36A Associated Press

By ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard University is spotlighting bare-knuckled politics and big dollar figures. But in the battle...

Trump administration takes aim at Harvard’s international students and tax-exempt status

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/17 4:37A Associated Press

By ANNIE MA, JOCELYN GECKER and COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump s administration has escalated its  ongoing battle with Harvard , threatening to revoke the...

Tennessee’s GOP leads the fight to deny public education to children without documents

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/17 2:07A Associated Press

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Damian Felipe Jimenez has many dreams about his future — he could be a restaurant owner, a scientist or maybe...

Harvard stands to lose $2.2 billion in federal funding. Researchers fear science will suffer

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/16 6:06A Associated Press

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS, AP Education Writer CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — In a high-stakes standoff, President Donald Trump’s administration says it will freeze $2.2 billion in federal research grants for Harvard University, which is pushing back on...

Trump administration sues Maine over participation of transgender athletes in girls sports

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/16 4:44A Associated Press

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and PATRICK WHITTLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday sued Maine for not complying with the government s push to ban ...

Visa cancellations sow panic for international students, with hundreds fearing deportation

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/15 8:11A Associated Press

By ANNIE MA, MAKIYA SEMINERA and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER WASHINGTON (AP) — At first, the bar association for immigration attorneys began receiving inquiries from a couple students a day. These were foreigners studying in the U.S., and they’d...

Harvard’s challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/15 7:22A Associated Press

By COLLIN BINKLEY On one side is Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, with a brand so powerful that its name is synonymous with prestige. On the other side is the Trump administration, determined to go farther than any other...

In Florida, school-choice advocates tout federal bill that would ‘supersize’ funds

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/15 7:20A Divya Kumar

Advocates for school choice — including U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody — kicked off a national tour in Tampa to tout a proposed bill in Congress that would offer federal tax credits to those who donate toward options outside of traditional public...

Report projects Florida’s traditional public schools will enroll fewer students in coming years

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/15 5:53A News Service Of Florida

Enrollment in Florida’s traditional public schools is expected to decrease in the coming years while voucher programs expand, according to a new report from state economists. The report, compiled by the state Education Estimating Conference, said...

Broward schools look to staff cuts as enrollment shrinks. Here’s what to know.

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/12 9:55P Scott Travis

After years of dwindling enrollment, the Broward School District may finally be getting serious about shrinking. Both Superintendent Howard Hepburn and School Board member Allen Zeman say they are working on plans to right-size the district,...

Schools lined up for help getting cleaner school buses. Then came the EPA freeze

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/11 6:48A Associated Press

By MICHAEL CASEY and ALEXA ST. JOHN BOSTON (AP) — Looking to cut pollution from its fleet of diesel-burning school buses, an Oklahoma school district last year doubled its electric vehicles. Related...

Pump down the volume: Video game headsets lead to hearing loss for younger people

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/11 4:20A Uma Raja

Despite being a hearing aid specialist himself, Joe Gallagher spent three years convinced that his wife couldn’t stop mumbling. A hearing test proved that he had developed noise-induced hearing loss from the volume level on his video game...

Florida universities’ campus police to partner with ICE on immigration enforcement

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/10 3:48A Divya Kumar

Campus police at the universities of Florida and South Florida are among those that have signed on as law enforcement partners with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. UF spokesperson Steve Orlando confirmed that the school’s police...

UF international student detained by immigration agents is now back in Colombia

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/9 8:48A Bea Lunardini

GAINESVILLE — The University of Florida international student arrested near campus and sent to an immigration detention center has returned to Colombia, according to a new statement from his mother...