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  1. Gov. Rick Scott proposes boosting education funding by more than half a billion dollars in the fiscal year that begins July 1. In this Dec. 7, 2011, photo, he is releasing his 2012 budget that adds $1 billion to K-12 education. Tallahassee Democrat

    Scott wants a $500 million boost for schools

    Scott touts increase in education budget.

    • Jan. 27, 2014
  2. Around 100 people came out Monday night for the Republican Liberty Caucus of Florida Stop Common-Core forum at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Viera. CRAIG RUBADOUX/FLORIDA TODAY

    Caucus rally speaks out against Common Core

    Signs dotted the room: 'Keep Local Control.' 'Stop Fed. Govt. Takeover.' 'Stop Common Core.'

    • Jan. 28, 2014
  3. Interactive: Brevard's half-cent sales tax

    The Brevard County School District is taking a different approach to the half-cent sales tax vote in 2014. See how things differ to 2012.

    • Jan. 26, 2014
  4. Terri Friedlander author of Chasing Her Destiny is now available on amazon.com, booksamillion.com AND barnesandnoble.com!

    What if we didn't need a plan to improve?

    What if this was a perfect world? Students would be eager to learn, full of respect for each other and printers would never jam.

    • Jan. 25, 2014
  5. Chandler

    Cram Session: I Am Proof out to help boys, young men

    A program designed to help pre-teen boys and young men called I Am Proof begins with a ribbon-cutting from 6 to 8p.m. Thursday at the Holiday Inn on Wickham Road in Viera.

    • Jan. 25, 2014
  6. Eastern Florida in running for Aspen Prize

    Eastern Florida State College is among 150 institutions selected to compete for the 2015 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.

    • Jan. 24, 2014
  7. Work on the new Public Safety Institute is currently underway. Cold weather did not keep a large turnout from the Wednesday morning groundbreaking ceremony at the Melbourne campus of Eastern Florida State College. TIM SHORTT/ FLORIDA TODAY

    EFSC breaks ground on Public Safety Institute

    Wednesday morning, Eastern Florida State College conducted a groundbreaking ceremony for a future $14 million Public Safety Institute.

    • Jan. 23, 2014
  8. Superintendent Brian Binggeli presents a preliminary budget for 2014-15 at Tuesday's School Board meeting. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY

    School board, public discuss list of potential cuts of $6 million

    On Tuesday, Brevard School Board members were presented a $6 million list of potential budget cuts that could take place in 2015-16 if a proposed half-cent sales tax fails at the November election.

    • Jan. 22, 2014
  9. The Brevard School Board. FLORIDA TODAY file

    Updates: Brevard School Board meeting on textbook

    Watch live: Brevard School Board members will hear presentations during the meeting tonight on multiple issues that have been in the spotlight of late.

    • Jan. 21, 2014
  10. A committee of concerned citizens, retired military, teachers, administrators and parents make recommendations on a world history textbook. MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY

    Brevard textbook committee to offer solutions today

    Brevard School Board members will hear a presentation from a committee formed to review a controversial World History textbook with alleged pro-Islamic bias.

    • Jan. 21, 2014
  11. Barbara Wilcox works with her Tropical Elementary School students on a science project to make and learn about snow and winter. The students pictured from left to right are: Landon Rodriguez-Fields (transitional kindergarten), and kindergarten students Onyx Blevins, Zana Quader and Michael Pritchett. For FLORIDA TODAY

    Cram Session: M.I. teacher honored by award

    Tropical Elementary teacher thrilled by national science award

    • Jan. 20, 2014
  12. Scenes of students in Caroline Kent's Pre-AICE Chemistry class at Rockledge high school. Tim Shortt/FLORIDA TODAY

    Brevard School Board to look at paring graduation requirements

    A less-stringent path to a high school diploma could be one result if a proposed half-cent sales tax for schools fails to win voter support in November.

    • Jan. 19, 2014
  13. Textbooks and an apple Getty Images/Comstock Images

    Mentors help in all kinds of ways

    January is mentoring month, giving adults the opportunity to start to make a difference in a child's life.

    • Jan. 18, 2014
  14. Anikka Schliesmann and Jamie Perry take a look at Twitter messages projected on the wall of English teacher Valerie Williams' ninth-grade classroom at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy. TIM SHORTT/FLORIDA TODAY

    Teacher trains 'digital citizens' with Twitter-based discussions

    Students at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy tweet their class discussions about literature.

    • Jan. 17, 2014
  15. Students from Saturn Elementary in Cocoa celebrated at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center today after they were named winners of a statewide video contest promoting reading. L-R J'Shawn Williams, Luis Merced, Chloe Deaton, Ashlyn Friend, Elizabeth Leib and Darius Davis. Scott Gunnerson, FLORIDA TODAY

    Saturn Elementary students win statewide video contest

    Students from Saturn Elementary in Cocoa celebrated at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center today after they were named winners in a statewide video contest promoting reading.

    • Jan. 16, 2014
  16. Column: Decline in students' writing skills painful

    Decline in writing skills apparent to teacher.

    • Jan. 11, 2014
  17. Business group offers scholarship

    Oceanside Chapter of American Business Women's Association offers $1,000 scholarship.

    • Jan. 11, 2014

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