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Over the past decade, the U.S. education system has seen a growing number of students whose native language is something other than English.
A week after a mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, national and international officials are reflecting on what to do about gun policies.
Democrat Gillum said of DeSantis, “Now, I’m not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist, I’m simply saying the racists believe he’s a racist.”
DeSantis "goes around the state vilifying teachers and staff," and sowing division, said Spar of the Florida Education Association.
New results from Florida's third grade reading exams statewide are not good, and one school official is cynical about the future.
Overshadowed by the statewide crisis, legislation to make mobile homes and manufactured homes safer was signed into law recently.
Florida health officials continue to respond to an outbreak of a serious, potentially deadly bacterial illness called meningococcal disease.
While DeSantis calls them "significant reforms," the report indicates several insurance companies are still expected to fail.
The report indicates that this ruling -- which diminishes Black representation -- is a composite of three Republican-appointed judges.
"Whenever there’s a possibility a vote in the right-wing base might be lost, there’s deafening silence (by DeSantis),” Mac Stipanovich said.
Florida Senate Democrats tried dozens of times Tuesday morning, to no avail, to alter the course of a GOP-sponsored property-insurance bill.
The Florida Senate voted 30-9 to adopt a property-insurance bill to help Florida's collapsing marketplace.
The nation reels and reacts to another devastating mass shooting, this time killing 19 elementary students and two adults in Uvalde, Texas.
Fine mocked with impunity President Biden's pledges to solve gun control. The report states Fine has made offensive comments in the past.
It occurs 30 days before the one-year anniversary of the Surfside Champlain Towers South condominium collapse, which killed 98 people.
This occurs amid questions on the first piece of legislation related to Florida's property insurance crisis that has roiled insurers.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the Florida Capitol complex Tuesday to urge legislators to support additional restrictions on abortion.
DeSantis was certain a federal appeals court would side with him on his attempt to punish social media companies. Well, he was wrong.
Florida House Democrats elected their new leader, Fentrice Driskell, the first Black woman to serve in the role of House Democratic Leader.
A state appellate court has refused to transfer litigation over Gov. Ron DeSantis's plan to erase a Black-access congressional District.