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School choice is a priority for the education advisory committee Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis has convened to help shape his policy goals. The panel met for...

Next year’s state budget boasts what Governor Scott has called record funding for K-12 education. After deep cuts spurred by the Recession, per-pupil...

Republican Joe Negron was sworn in as the new President of the Florida Senate last month and he recently laid out his priorities for education in the...

Charlie Crist has to close a sale. The one-time Republican governor now wants to become governor as a Democrat. But he needs to convince Democrats he’s…

State Sen. John Legg heads the education committee in the Florida Senate. StateImpact Florida's Robin Sussingham sat down with Legg recently, and asked...

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop died Monday. He was 96. As surgeon general, Koop turned an office with little power into a mighty platform to educate Americans about AIDS prevention and the dangers of smoking.

States are thankful for the opportunity, but critics say there's no guarantee that states will succeed in two crucial areas the old law — known as No Child Left Behind — failed.

While only Congress can shutter the department, the president is reportedly considering executive action to severely scale back its responsibilities and staffing.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Juan Martinez, one of the many thousands of students the philanthropist Eugene Lang helped send to college. Lang died over the weekend.

Few remember a Virginia case in which an African American principal started a petition for equal school facilities and teacher pay in Pulaski, Va.