StateImpact

It’s a midweek school night at Miami Beach Senior High School.Students, their parents and siblings -- roughly 80 people in all -- are waiting in the...

Florida is getting ready to go to court over the federal government’s school accountability standards. The Florida Legislature passed a law last spring…

Millions of U.S. students will log on to take a new generation of online tests less than a year from now.The tests are tied to the new Common Core…

For the past few years, the new nationwide Common Core state standards have been slowly rolling out in Florida’s schools. Next year, all schools will…

It makes sense that Florida's new K-12 math and language arts standards based on Common Core will mean changes for those classes. But science, social…

Florida’s teachers aren’t as diverse as their students. That’s the finding of a new study that looked at the “diversity gap” in the classroom.StateImpact…

Today is the start of Teacher Appreciation Week.The North Carolina-based Center for Teaching Quality has launched a social media campaign called Teaching…

This week Florida students are taking FCAT math, reading and writing exams for the final time. The test starting as a way to measure student progress. But…

For the next several weeks, students across Florida will be sitting for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test one last time. Florida gets a new…

Two weeks ago a bill expanding Florida’s private school tax credit scholarship program nearly died.House and Senate lawmakers couldn’t agree whether those…