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Broward County Public Schools has an $80 million headache.

A parental rights law may soon lose a lot of the controversial elements that led critics to give it the well-known nickname “Don’t Say Gay.” The state reached a settlement Monday that provides new guidance and removes what lawsuit plaintiffs described as the most discriminatory interpretations of a 2022 law known as “Parental Rights in Education.” The law bans or restricts instruction of ...

Education officials in South Florida are reacting Tuesday to a lawsuit settlement regarding Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, which now allows students and teachers to be able to speak freely about sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms.

Charter schools in Broward County have long complained about being short-changed millions of dollars, and now the state agrees and has launched an...

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This week on The Florida Roundup, we talk about a proposal to prohibit children 16 and under from creating social media accounts with the bill's House sponsor and then an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (13:20). After that, we turn to a reporter in El Paso, Texas, for more on how Florida’s National and State Guards are being used at the U.S. Southern border. Later, WLRN’s health reporter breaks down this week’s Florida Supreme Court hearings over the abortion ballot me...

Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(WESTON, Fla.) -- The seventh case of measles linked to an outbreak at a Florida elementary school was confirmed by Health officials Tuesday.Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) said it was informed by the Florida Department of Health – Broward of the additional case at Mantatee Bay Elementary in Weston, which is 20 miles west of Fort Lauderdale.The infected patient has not physically been on campus since Feb. 15, and the distri...

Thanks to the Broward County School Board's 6-3 vote in favor of new contracts with the Broward Teacher's Union, educators can expect a bump in their paychecks.

Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(WESTON, Fla.) -- The seventh case of measles linked to an outbreak at a Florida elementary school was confirmed by Health officials Tuesday.Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) said it was informed by the Florida Department of Health – Broward of the additional case at Mantatee Bay Elementary in Weston, which is 20 miles west of Fort Lauderdale.The infected patient has not physically been on campus since Feb. 15, and the distri...

Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(WESTON, Fla.) -- The seventh case of measles linked to an outbreak at a Florida elementary school was confirmed by Health officials Tuesday.Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) said it was informed by the Florida Department of Health – Broward of the additional case at Mantatee Bay Elementary in Weston, which is 20 miles west of Fort Lauderdale.The infected patient has not physically been on campus since Feb. 15, and the distri...