Broward County School District

The Broward County School Board has company.  The board might feel empowered to defy Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on mask mandates after the Alachua County School Board did so Tuesday night. Miami-Dade County Public Schools says it will decide the issue based on science and evidence. So Broward’s school board will have an emergency meeting next Tuesday to decide...

No one was satisfied with the distance learning experience that teachers and students were forced into when schools abruptly closed at the beginning of the pandemic last March. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports on the new training teachers gone through for the fall semester.

Broward County school teachers are beginning their new year Wednesday morning – while students wait one more week before starting their year the way their last one ended: with e-learning.

Entering hallways will be replaced with entering a log-in for the first day of school at all Broward County public schools next week.

With school starting in South Florida in just a couple of weeks, both Broward and Miami-Dade counties are working to iron out the details of a school year in the midst of a pandemic. In Broward County, students with special needs may be some of the first to go back into classrooms, Superintendent Robert Runcie announced Tuesday. “I have also…

In Broward County, students with special needs may be the first to go back into the classrooms. Superintendent Robert Runcie discussed fine tuning the school district’s plan for the start of school.

Superintendent Robert Runcie says he will recommend distance learning as the sole option to start the 2020-21 school year if numbers do not improve in terms of positive cases of the virus in the county. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

Families picking up free meals at schools has become the new normal in South Florida. Now both the Broward and Miami-Dade school districts have moved to a twice-a-week schedule for food handouts.  The superintendents in each county see an acute need to feed children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic.  “There is no alternative, if we do not provide...

For our local school districts, the worst of the economic impact is still down the road. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

Educators nationwide are struggling to engage students in distance learning, especially the kids who are already bored or tune out easily.  So a group of teachers from Broward County Public Schools is using a Trojan horse concept. They’re sneaking academic lessons into something the students already love, video games, such as Minecraft.  “It reaches them where they are because...

Vincent Grossi is currently a math teacher at Cypress Bay High School in Weston and has been with the school district for over 25 years, according to testimony from his lawyer during court proceedings.

A South Florida mother says her daughter is being bullied and is frustrated with the way school officials are handling the situation.

In most schools, uneaten gets thrown into the garbage. Tons of food, wasted. So a teacher at Beachside Montessori K8 Center in Hollywood, Elaine Fiore, came up with the Food Rescue plan.

Of the state’s approximately 3,900 public schools, only 116 completed an optional security assessment in 2016 and 16 were filed in 2017, said the chairman of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission.

The parents and spouses of the 17 students and staff who died in the Florida high school massacre are calling for the removal of the school board in the upcoming election, saying they have failed to adequately improve campus security.

Almost immediately after the Valentine’s Day massacre happened at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, the conversations about making schools more secure started.

After denying for months that accused Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz had any connection to a program created to soften school punishment and reduce student arrests, the Broward County School District is now changing their story. Back in March, Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie said Cruz was not involved in the PROMISE program while in high school but on...

The parents of Joaquin Oliver – one of the 17 slain on February 14th inside the Parkland school – are expected at a news conference with attorneys already representing two other victims’ families.

Video released Thursday shows the moments when school officials and a Broward County deputy first reacted to shots being fired inside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School just over one month ago.

Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School returned to school a week ago following the deadly shooting that took place on Valentine’s Day. However, they have been attending classes on a modified schedule – until this morning.