Visa cancellations sow panic for international students, with hundreds fearing deportation

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/15 8:11A Associated Press

By ANNIE MA, MAKIYA SEMINERA and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER WASHINGTON (AP) — At first, the bar association for immigration attorneys began receiving inquiries from a couple students a day. These were foreigners studying in the U.S., and they’d...

Harvard’s challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/15 7:22A Associated Press

By COLLIN BINKLEY On one side is Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, with a brand so powerful that its name is synonymous with prestige. On the other side is the Trump administration, determined to go farther than any other...

In Florida, school-choice advocates tout federal bill that would ‘supersize’ funds

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/15 7:20A Divya Kumar

Advocates for school choice — including U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody — kicked off a national tour in Tampa to tout a proposed bill in Congress that would offer federal tax credits to those who donate toward options outside of traditional public...

Report projects Florida’s traditional public schools will enroll fewer students in coming years

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/15 5:53A News Service Of Florida

Enrollment in Florida’s traditional public schools is expected to decrease in the coming years while voucher programs expand, according to a new report from state economists. The report, compiled by the state Education Estimating Conference, said...

Broward schools look to staff cuts as enrollment shrinks. Here’s what to know.

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/12 9:55P Scott Travis

After years of dwindling enrollment, the Broward School District may finally be getting serious about shrinking. Both Superintendent Howard Hepburn and School Board member Allen Zeman say they are working on plans to right-size the district,...

Schools lined up for help getting cleaner school buses. Then came the EPA freeze

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/11 6:48A Associated Press

By MICHAEL CASEY and ALEXA ST. JOHN BOSTON (AP) — Looking to cut pollution from its fleet of diesel-burning school buses, an Oklahoma school district last year doubled its electric vehicles. Related...

Pump down the volume: Video game headsets lead to hearing loss for younger people

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/11 4:20A Uma Raja

Despite being a hearing aid specialist himself, Joe Gallagher spent three years convinced that his wife couldn’t stop mumbling. A hearing test proved that he had developed noise-induced hearing loss from the volume level on his video game...

Florida universities’ campus police to partner with ICE on immigration enforcement

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/10 3:48A Divya Kumar

Campus police at the universities of Florida and South Florida are among those that have signed on as law enforcement partners with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. UF spokesperson Steve Orlando confirmed that the school’s police...

UF international student detained by immigration agents is now back in Colombia

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/9 8:48A Bea Lunardini

GAINESVILLE — The University of Florida international student arrested near campus and sent to an immigration detention center has returned to Colombia, according to a new statement from his mother...

Florida universities face sweeping state audit under DeSantis’ DOGE mandate

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/9 8:03A Garrett Shanley

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida’s public universities and colleges have just two weeks to turn over six years’ worth of records on staffing, research and grant funding as part of the first formal information request under Gov. Ron DeSantis’ newly...

Schools relying on digital surveillance find security still takes a human touch

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/9 6:32A Associated Press

By CARLY FLANDRO of Idaho Education News and JACKIE VALLEY of the Christian Science Monitor Four years ago, a sixth grader in Rigby, Idaho, shot and injured two peers and a custodian at a middle...

Trump administration halts $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell, $790 million for Northwestern

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/9 2:48A Associated Press

By WILL WEISSERT, CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern...

ADL upgrades 19 colleges’ antisemitism ‘grades,’ as some enact new policies

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/8 4:43A Andrew Lapin

The letter grades that the Anti-Defamation League has issued to campuses on their response to antisemitism are showing signs of growing influence: The group announced that several schools have adopted new policies to improve their grades in the...

Florida private colleges concerned about cuts possibly affecting 21,000 students

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/7 11:55A News Service Of Florida

Private college and university leaders said Monday they are worried about potential cuts in the state Effective Access to Student Education, or EASE, program, which provides $3,500 annual grants to undergraduates at the private schools. Under the...

Maine sues the Trump administration over funding freeze after dispute over transgender athletes

Florida Education News-South Florida Sun Sentinel 4/7 11:15A Associated Press

By PATRICK WHITTLE SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Maine officials sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday to try to stop the government from freezing federal money in the wake of a dispute over transgender athletes in sports....