Florida Schools

Florida Southern College’s Roberts Academy marks 15 years of helping students with dyslexia close literacy gaps — and reshape their futures.

The move opens the door to the possibility of religious charter schools and state-funded scholarships for religious universities.

Last school year, more than 54,000 alerts were sent from Florida campuses. Nearly half — 0r 44% — were related to student behavior. Only 1% of alerts were related to suspicious activity and another 1% for a campus threat.

As South Florida school districts predicting dwindling enrollment into next school year, the steady decline in birth rate will contribute to the dramatic year-to-year student loss.

On "The Florida Roundup," best-selling author James Patterson talks about increasing children's reading literacy, how parents can help and his thoughts on some of the state's educational policies.

Florida school districts have control over some of the local tax money they receive and have the ability to decrease tax rates, but all taxes that school districts levy have some level of state control.

The Orange County School Board has voted to close six elementary schools and one middle school largely due to under-enrollment.

School choice expansions in recent years have given parents more options for their children. This has led to an increase in "micro schools" in Florida. One such school in New Port Richey bases many of its classes around nature.

Schools of Hope were initially meant to serve children in impoverished areas where student performance is low. That expanded last year to allow charters to take up space in nearly any school with unused space.

Commissioner Stasi Kamoutsas' comments come after students across the state participated in walkouts protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE.

Texas' Bluebonnet curriculum uses the Bible to teach math and language arts.

There have been dozens of student walkouts protesting the actions of ICE held at high schools throughout the state this month.