The big story: Finding out whether your local school board member lives in the district he or she is elected to represent could soon become more difficult. A measure moving through the Florida ...

The board also voted to reduce the number of paraprofessionals from two to one in some exceptional education classes.

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. — Florida has six amendments on the November election ballot.. Amendment 1 has voters deciding if partisanship should be included when candidates run for school board.

The Senate Ethics and Elections Committee on Monday voted 6-2 to approve a proposal (SJR 802) that would put in the Florida Constitution eight-year term limits for county commissioners and school ...

A Florida school board is trying to take the deposition of one of its 7-year-old students in the hopes it helps tank a federal lawsuit filed over some of its book ban decisions. The Escambia ...

Fam, who for the past seven months was the sole Republican on the School Board, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Friday that she is moving to Tennessee. “Trump country,” she said.

Two South Florida school districts will be swearing in a new bench of school board members this week. The Broward County School Board is swearing-in some new members and welcoming reelected ones ...

The Florida Commission on Ethics has cleared Marion County School Board member Sarah James of alleged ethics violations. The complaints were filed by one of her fellow board members, Nancy Thrower.

Brevard County teacher Melissa Calhoun attended a school board meeting after being told her contract wouldn't be renewed for using a student's chosen name without parental permission. Public ...

"In 1998, Florida voters approved Amendment 11, an election reform package offered by the 1997-98 Constitution Revision Commission, that required district school board members to be elected in ...

An oft-repeated phrase among parents and community members is that politics have no place in schools.. But, this election, Florida's Constitution could be amended to make school board races ...