Rural Schools

The Florida Department of Education appointed a financial board to both Union and Glades counties’ school districts to help with “operations, management and finances and to make recommendations for financial recovery."

Carriers like Verizon and AT&T could use those towers, and in turn, strengthen connections in areas including Lecanto and Inverness.

Thousands of students have left Florida’s public schools amid an explosive growth in school choice. Now districts are reckoning with the financial realities of empty seats in aging classrooms.

In Defuniak Springs in Florida’s panhandle, the third graders at West Defuniak Elementary are learning division.Specifically, 72 divided by six. Their…