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A new billboard welcoming visitors to "Florida: The Sunshine 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' State' is seen Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Winter Park, Fla. Billboards, which are being placed in key areas with high visitor traffic and visibility, are part of a new advertising campaign launched by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Controversial education bill read to be heard in Florida Senate

A measure that would expand 2022’s controversial “Parental Rights in Education” law — known to critics as “don’t say gay” — is primed for consideration by the full Florida Senate.The proposal (SB 1320) would broaden the 2022 law’s prohibition on instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through third grade to pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.

The Southwest Key-Casa Padre Facility in Brownsville, Texas, formerly a Walmart, is one of more than 150 federally contracted shelters for unaccompanied minors that will lose educational and legal programs as a result of the mandate by Health and Human Services.

Administration Cuts Education And Legal Services For Unaccompanied Minors

The Office of Refugee Resettlement is telling migrant shelters to scale back on activities that are "not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety."

Parkland Drama Teacher To Receive Education Award At Tonys

Rachel Martin talks to Melody Herzfeld, a survivor of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. A week later she guided her students in a performance during a CNN town hall.

Shirley Malcom, head of Education and Human Resources at AAAS, talks during a discussion on the implications from the Minority Male STEM Initiative at the Symposium on Supporting Underrepresented Minority Males in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 at NASA headquarters in Washington. (Paul E. Alers/NASA via Creative Commons)

Improving STEM Education In America, And Making It More Diverse

The U.S. continues to lag other countries in STEM education, and new hires in science and tech overwhelmingly tend to be white and Asian men.

Education Secretary Says Status Quo In Schools Is 'Unacceptable'

U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. discusses the department's latest rules to make school funding more equal. Republicans and teachers unions have criticized the rules.

College loan debt isn't easing up, and students are struggling to navigate a plethora of obligations.

Loan Education Becomes Prerequisite As Student Debt Balloons

Americans hold about $1 trillion in student loans, and the debt burden is only getting heavier. One financial aid counselor says students are starting to smarten up and asking questions he'd never considered himself before the recession hit.

Longtime educator wins bid for Lee superintendent seat

Lee County is voters pick Denise Carlin as its new superintendent of schools

Fort Payne Sees Future in High-Tech Education

After seeing its sock industry decimated by competition from lower-wage countries, Fort Payne, Ala., aims to prepare its youngest residents for a high-tech future. It's investing in technologically advanced education tools in hopes that its high school graduates will be able to take advantage of a wave of new high-tech jobs coming to the region.

Education Pick Miguel Cardona Is New To Washington — But Not To Classrooms

President Biden's education nominee has spent most of his professional career as a public school educator in the city where he grew up: Meriden, Conn.

Virtual Education Is Impacting College Students' Access To Voting

College students who are studying remotely can vote in the state where their college is located. But this is controversial in some places, and students are organizing.

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