Today, the Florida Department of Education announced that mid-year progress monitoring results show students continue to succeed under the first-in-the-nation progress monitoring assessments.

The big story: Florida’s scores on the latest round of the National Assessment of Educational Progress didn’t offer much to cheer about.

The state’s 8th-grade reading score was below the national average for the first time since 2015, and its 8th-grade math score was the lowest in 20 years.

The Florida Department of Education plans to cooperate with the Trump administration's new directive to allow immigration enforcement within schools. Why it matters: The state's cooperation could discourage undocumented parents from enrolling their children in public schools.

The state’s public universities worked for months to vet their general-education courses in an attempt to bring them into compliance.

The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) and Volunteer Florida are encouraging students to participate in the 2025 Black History Month student art and essay contests.

Florida’s reading and math scores have dropped to their lowest levels in two decades, reflecting ongoing struggles in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Florida Board of Governors, a body that oversees the state’s public higher education system, will meet to approve the updated Gen Ed course list on Thursday.

Data from the Florida Education Association shows there are more than 3,000 teacher vacancies in the state right now, an improvement from last year’s numbers.

Florida higher-education leaders want to quickly hear how universities need to address a pending national legal settlement that is expected to lead to schools facing at least $22.5 million a year in new athletic-department costs.

The city of Pensacola has committed $100,000 to launch a homeless youth program in partnership with the Children’s Home Society of Florida to provide critical resources to help homeless youth.

Two Central Florida Democrats have filed legislation that would allow some K-12 students to take standardized tests in a language other than English in Florida.