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The teachers of Broward County Public Schools have been training. In fact, it’s been going on for weeks, with the single objective of making the e-learning experience better on both sides of the computer screen, for teachers and especially for students.

A growing number of people infected with COVID-19 are refusing to take part in the county contact tracing program, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez told commissioners at a meeting on Tuesday. “It is one of the troubling signs we are hearing from the health department. 50% or more are not participating,” he said. The program, along with the availability of tests,…

After three weeks of distance learning, Monroe County Public Schools reopened Monday, welcoming thousands of students back to their classrooms.

The pandemic numbers are improving, and so is the outlook for the physical reopening of Broward and Miami-Dade Public Schools.

Reopening schools in Florida could slow down after a judge Monday blocked Governor Ron DeSantis and education officials from forcing public schools to open their doors. The Florida Education Association had sued the state for issuing the mandate or risk losing funding.

It’s a strange time to be a college student. St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens is a microcosm of what’s happening nationwide.  St. Thomas has about 1,400 undergraduate students, and more than 500 of them live on campus. Those students are moving into their dormitory rooms as the cloud of COVID-19 looms over everything.   “We are taking as...

It’s a strange time to be a college student. St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens is a microcosm of what’s happening nationwide.

Whether you call them learning pods or microschools, they are a national phenomenon and a direct response to dissatisfaction with distance learning.

South Florida public schools are in various stages of reopening. Broward schools open Wednesday morning, while Miami-Dade and Palm Beach county schools open on August 31. Of course, they’re opening virtually, not physically.

Broward Schools are set to reopen Wednesday with distance learning amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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.

Entering hallways will be replaced with entering a log-in for the first day of school at all Broward County public schools next week.   The school board held a special meeting Tuesday to review reopening plans before giving final approval. The district said changes will bring more structure to their distance learning program. One major initiative is help for parents…

It’s been a long summer for parents teachers and even some students – but school begins next week in Broward and the final reopening plan is set to get board approval tomorrow. NBC 6’s Arlene Borenstein reports.

One of the biggest public charter school operators in Florida surprised parents and teachers by doing an about-face this week on its reopening plans for this coming school year.  Charter Schools USA had initially said it would physically open its South Florida schools, but this week officials announced that in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties, the COVID positivity rates are...

One of the biggest public charter school operators in Florida surprised parents and teachers by doing an about-face this week on its reopening plans for this coming school year. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

You’ve already heard that all public and almost all private schools will reopen this year with remote learning only. That’s grades K-12. However, pre-kindergarten is a different age group and a different story.

We know school will be starting in a few weeks all online, but some much-younger students will be in the classroom with their teacher. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

Both Miami-Dade and Broward County Public Schools have said they won’t bring students and teachers back to their campuses until the counties’ infection rates go down, so likely not until October. But what about the private schools?

During Wednesday afternoon’s school board meeting, Carvalho announced schools would reopen a week late, on August 31, and all instruction would be online.

Last school year ended with teachers and students trying to make the best of an emergency situation, learning and teaching from home.  At a news media event at a school in Clearwater Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and state education commissioner Richard Corcoran reiterated a position they took weeks ago: that parents should have the options of keeping their...