The Florida Department of Health (DOH) is encouraging parents to have their children immunized this month to avoid the back-to-school immunization rush in August.
Orange County voters are expected to vote again next year on a half-cent sales tax that would go toward the continuation of the district's school building program.
The 2013 Florida Department of Education recognized three Orange County Public Schools Partners in Education with the Commissioner’s Business Recognition Award (CBRA), recently, at a ceremony in Tampa, Florida.
Orange County Public Schools kicked off one of its busiest school building programs Tuesday, with a ceremonial groundbreaking at the Pineloch Elementary School.
In a sad twist, Richmond Heights Elementary School celebrated its pending closure with a reception and Kids Carnival on Saturday, capping off Richmond Heights Spirit Week.
Hundreds of kids from schools on Orlando's west side got to have fun, learn new skills and make new friends, thanks to the 2013 Dr. Phillips Panther Youth Football Combine on Saturday.
Lockheed Martin recently recognized 9th, 10th and 11th grade Biology students from Orange County high schools, winners of “Re-Use Engineering Design Challenge.”
Only fifty-eight percent of Orange County Public Schools third-graders scored at grade level or higher on the 2013 FCAT reading and mathematics, according to data released on Friday.
A $3.95 million donation can buy a lot of things, including, apparently, the name of the UCF Sports Arena, which will be changed to the CFE Federal Credit Union Arena, after the credit union that will also now have a branch on campus.
Random metal-detector screenings of students are being instituted immediately in the county's 184 public schools, through the end of the school year, Superintendent Barbara Jenkins said Wednesday.
Florida ranked near the bottom of the barrel nation-wide in how much it spent per pupil in fiscal year 2011, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Valencia College students won't see an increase in tuition when the fall semester begins, as the school's trustees agreed on Tuesday to maintain the current level.
The University of Florida, the state's top-ranked public college, plans to offer 20-25 bachelor's degree programs fully online, at a cost cheaper than on-campus classes.
Joseph Styles, the very talented 17-year-old A/B Honor Student, was honored with a Steinway piano on Sunday, by the Steinway Society of Central Florida Piano Gifting Celebration in Altamonte Springs.
Gov. Rick Scott is expected to veto a 3% increase to tuition for Florida schools on Monday, and approve a $65 million boost in Medicaid funding for hospitals that provide for the poor.
Dr. Phillips High school won its fourth consecutive Metro West Conference All-Sports Award last week, and this week topped the Academic Team Championship for all 19 Metro Conference public high schools.
The Federal government says, universities have an obligation to admit "emotional support" animals into school housing, in view of the separation anxiety some college freshmen face after they leave home.
Physical challenges - cinnamon, salt and ice, and eraser - where students video tape themselves engaging in difficult, dangerous and outlandish "challenges" are sweeping the country.
A group of UCF students got to show off their engineering and computer science skills recently, with the creation of a mind-controlled miniature car that moves when the user wears a special headset, which picks up voltage from the brain to make the car accelerate.
Florida Atlantic University president Mary Jane Saunders has tendered her resignation in the wake of negative media coverage and a school year rocked with several strange-but-true incidents that have turned the school into a curiosity.
Diane Meiller and Associates, Inc., in partnership with Junior Achievement of Central Florida, recently hosted its 6th annual “Me and My CommUnity” event.
Kiera Wilmot, the 16-year-old Bartow High School straight 'A' student who was arrested over a failed science experiment that resulted in a small explosion on school grounds last month, continues to garner strong support from all over the world.
On Monday, concerned parents gathered at the Save Our Schools rally in Titusville, questioning how the school board was spending its money, aiming to "put the public back in education" and stay informed on all of the school board's decisions.
Glenridge Middle School, located at 2900 Upper Park Rd, is no longer on lock down, after thirty Orlando police officers concluded a search of its premises.
David Groover, former principal of Partin Settlement High School in Osceola County, has been sentenced to one year in prison for possessing marijuana and intending to sell it to others.
Today, Governor Rick Scott announced that Dorina Sackman, an ESOL language arts teacher at Westridge Middle School in Orlando, is a 2014 Department of Education/Macy’s Teacher of the Year finalist.
