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Open for business: Struggling schools looking for ways to make money

Cash-strapped school districts across Central Florida are scrambling to find a new source of money by marketing everything from online websites to gymnasium naming rights -- and even Friday night football games.

Schools pass over laid-off teachers when jobs open up

A lot of principals, under a new accountability program, can only hire teachers with a proven record of boosting student achievement, a school official says

Evans High School students tell story of homeless via video

Evans sophomore Katherine Abreu thought homelessness happened only to old men.

UCF cuts affect more than 1,000 students

UCF trustees voted Thursday to eliminate four academic programs and suspend a fifth within the next two years to cut spending by more than $4 million a year.

Drugs, low self-esteem: Survey paints troubling picture of Seminole teens

Academic, athletic, artistic and high achievers, many of them live in the most affluent middle-class communities in Central Florida.

6,000 rally to demand better education funding in Florida

They've starved themselves, launched letter-writing campaigns and even held a "funeral" for public education that turned up on YouTube. And Saturday, parents, educators and others gathered by the thousands in Orlando to rally against school-funding cuts in what was Florida's biggest statewide

Central Florida schools see sizable spike in free meals

Schools across Central Florida are seeing a sharp increase in the number of students getting free or reduced-price meals since the economy went into a tailspin last fall.

Is a 4-day week in Florida public schools' future?

Is a 4-day week in Florida public schools' future?
Kids in Florida public schools could be going to classes four days a week instead of five next fall if the Legislature lets financially strapped school districts adopt the cost-saving measure.

Higher learning: More middle-schoolers leapfrog into advance classes

But are minorities being left behind?
Denise-marie Balona
For decades, high-school students have taken community-college courses to dress up their resumes and prepare for college. But the nation's foremost scholars in middle-school education are worried the fast-growing trend is leaving minority children behind. They also question whether the practice is legal because, nationwide, it has tended to result in students being segregated by race.

Crist warns of possibility of more school budget cuts

Gov. Charlie Crist said Wednesday that he would try to protect Florida's classrooms from more cuts this year, but that may not be possible as the state's revenue picture continues to deteriorate.

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