Seminole County Public Schools (SCPS) is seeking community leaders to participate in the SCPS Teach-in on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 in honor of American Education Week, November 18-23, 2013.
Orlando School Counselor Linda Martin, is among five finalists for the 2014 School Counselor of the Year awards program of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA).
On Tuesday, the Seminole County Public Schools recognized winners of the 2013 "Let's Read, Seminole!" summer reading program and presented each student with their own personal Nexus 7 tablet.
In an effort to break the impasse over teacher pay increases, the Orange County School District sent a letter Thursday, to the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association, proposing that the appointment of a Special Magistrate be bypassed and the matter be taken directly to the School Board.
Fern Creek Elementary will be the first school in Central Florida to plant an American Heart Association Teaching Garden as part of an innovative national, school-based program to re-establish what it means to be healthy.
Gov. Rick Scott is directing the state Education Board to withdraw from the national consortium creating tests to accompany the new Common Core State Standards.
Parents, educators, and community leaders called on Gov. Rick Scott today, to invest any additional state revenue into public education instead of tax giveaways to corporate special interests.
Contract negotiations between teachers in Orange County, Florida, represented by the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association, and the School Board, reached an impasse on Thursday.
Nearly 90 business leaders representing 40 innovating firms focused on science, technology and engineering will come together Tuesday for Florida Polytechnic University's first Industry Partner Summit to help shape the university's curriculum.
Under the sponsorship of the Urban League of Florida the “We Care” Traveling Circus was initiated to travel around the state in high minority urban areas disseminating their well-rehearsed and carefully coded propaganda.
Olympia High School baseball and softball fields will now be known as "Baptiste Orthodontics Ball Fields" under a 5-year naming rights agreement approved by Orange County School board Tuesday.
Florida Polytechnic University will offer $5,000 annual scholarships for the first three years and $3,200 the fourth year, all to try to draw top-notch students to the new school.
Students at the Ocoee High School will demonstrate how they are using MacBook Air laptops for learning in the classroom on Thursday, part of a year-long pilot program prior to the introduction of a digital curriculum.
As some 180,000 Orange County Public School students head back to school next Monday, Sheriff Jerry Demings is warning reckless drivers that, a citation will be given if they are exceeding the posted speed limits in schools zones.
When the Orlando Magic hosted the Back to School event to benefit the Parramore Kidz Zone on Wednesday, it allowed more than 200 elementary and middle school students to play video games, compete at laser tag, have their faces painted and receive balloon animals.
One hundred years later with over sixty schools and a district that consistently rank as one of the top performers in Florida, Seminole County Public Schools has much of which to be proud.
In a major setback to Gov. Rick Scott, Florida's education commissioner Tony Bennett resigned Thursday amidst controversy over school grades in his home state of Indiana.
