Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas said the declaration establishes an “affiliation” with the Heritage Foundation and promotes what the board supports rather than what it opposes.

Veterans learn roofing and carpentry at the free nine-week training at the Home Builders Institute in Orlando.

The food bank has partnered with 85 public schools and colleges in Central Florida to feed students.

Federal funding for the centers ran out Nov. 1.

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings says almost 175,000 people in his county will be without food assistance if funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program runs out on Saturday.

The governor says Florida universities should rely instead on American workers to fill open positions at the state’s public universities and colleges.

The prize acknowledges community colleges for high achievement and student performance.

Superintendent Carmen Balgobin wrote a letter to the community defending the district’s gains during the last school year.

18-year-old Shannon Rushing, a Forest High student, was killed walking to her bus stop in northwest Ocala.

The bills will be considered once the legislature reconvenes on January 13.

The report published this month found student test scores and problematic behaviors improved in the two years since cell phone restrictions took effect.

Head Start relies on federal grants to provide free, essential early-learning services to low-income students and families.