Education

Registration for Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) is now open for spring programs in Lee, Collier, Hendry and Glades Counties. The free educational program is available to 4-year-olds who reside in Florida, regardless of family income.

An artful duo from Southwest Florida has struck again. This time they have incorporated one Lee County school's way of teaching into a vibrant and eye-popping mural.

In the 1980s, Fu Xiangdong was a young Chinese virology student who came to the United States to study biochemistry. More than three decades later, he had a prestigious professorship in California and was conducting promising research on Parkinson’s disease.But now Fu is doing his research at a Chinese university. His American career was derailed as U.S.-China relations unraveled, putting his collaborations with a Chinese university under scrutiny. He ended up resigning.Fu’s story mirrors the rise and fall of U.S.-China academic engagement.

A workshop by the board is scheduled for earlier in the day, beginning at 1 p.m. The meeting itself starts at 6 p.m. Tuesday. All meetings can be viewed here.

Lee County School District begins distribution of Naloxone to all schools to combat potential opioid overdoses

In this installment of "Reflections of a Colored Girl," Bireda explored how education has been used for and against African American students. And how it lead to her career as an educational consultant.

Florida teachers are leaving the state and their profession. They blame unrealistic workloads, restrictive laws and stagnant pay.

The authors of some of the nearly 400 books removed from the libraries of Collier County public schools have made their feelings known about these actions.

The Black Power Movement promoted racial pride, self-respect and the acknowledgement of the beauty and dynamism of our culture. Most pronounced to me, as a former colored girl, was our definition of beauty: “Black is beautiful.” Our afros were the rage.

In my life, I have found myself as a colored, a negro, a Black, an African American, and a person of color. This is my reflection as a colored girl. Cultural deprivation is a sociological theory that asserts that ethnic and social groups possess inferior values, norms, skills, and knowledge which place them at a disadvantage in the larger society.

The Collier County Supervisor of Elections office partnered with Collier County schools to challenge students to register and pre-register to vote.