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About five days after two students attacked him on a Broward County Public Schools bus, a 15-year-old boy‘s face was swollen and his head was bruised.
As a reward for being Broward County Public Schools’ 2025 Teacher of the Year, the U.S. Navy Blue Angels took Richard Lamarre on an adventure.
Local 10 News has learned that another weapon was found on campus at Miramar High School Tuesday, prompting Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Howard Hepburn to schedule a press conference to address growing safety concerns.
Enrollment in Broward County Public Schools has dropped by nearly 38,000 students over the past decade, and officials expect to lose another 8,000 next year.
Two Broward County Public Schools have earned bragging rights after winning the championship in the inaugural Minecraft Education South Florida Showdown.
Pembroke Pines police officers arrested a Broward County Public Schools employee on Friday at a high school for the sexual battery of a minor in Miami-Dade County, police said.
Broward County Public Schools has named its top Career and Technical Education Teacher and Rookie Teacher of the year for 2025.
Many school principals around the country are bracing for the possibility of having to deal with President Donald Trump’s new immigration policies.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Janine Stanwood interviews Howard Hepburn, the Broward County Public Schools Superintendent; Harold Pryor, the Broward County State Attorney; Kevin Cooper, the chairman of the Republican Party of Miami-Dade County; and Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, a Miami Beach commissioner. Attorney Ed Pozzuoli and Scott Travis, a Sun-Sentinel reporter, join the Roundtable.
A new proposal for changes at public schools highlighted a painful reality: Student enrollment has significantly decreased at Broward Estates Elementary in Lauderhill.
Parents and guardians of students attending Broward County Schools should take a look at the revised 2024-2025 school calendar, after an update by the district due to hurricane closures.
Broward County Public Schools leaders have been holding meetings to figure out how to deal with declining enrollment and to best use the county’s resources.
Officials with Broward County Public Schools joined their counterparts in Miami-Dade on Monday in announcing upcoming school closures due to Hurricane Milton.
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies announced Wednesday that they have arrested nine Broward County Public Schools students over threats of violence last month and so far this month.
Broward County Public Schools administrators announced Sunday morning that a person had been arrested over threats.
Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Howard Hepburn issued a safety update Monday after concerns arose following a propane leak at an elementary school and a carbon monoxide leak at a high school less than a week apart.
The principal of Cypress Bay High School in Weston plans to welcome students back to class on Monday morning after carbon monoxide poisoning prompted school staff to seek medical treatment on Friday. A Broward firefighter who responded was also affected.
The first two days of the 2024-25 school year were challenging this week for Broward County Public Schools students who had to wait in line to walk through metal detectors before making it to their classrooms.
On Monday hundreds of students attending Broward County Public Schools will be having new teachers, subjects and classmates, but they will also notice some big changes when they walk through the doors. The first one is metal detectors.
Broward County Public School bus drivers were up early on Monday, as they prepared to pick up students for the first day of the 2024-2025 school year.
Pembroke Pines officials agreed to allocate School Resource Officers at all of the public schools in the city until December and will continue discussions on how to cover the cost.
Broward County Public Schools doesn’t have a police department, so not every school will have trained law enforcement officers when students return on Aug. 12.
Metal detectors are coming to all public high schools in Broward County this month after test runs wrap up at summer school programs.
On the second day of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission meeting, the focus remained on statewide school safety.
Broward County Public Schools officials said a fifth-grade teacher’s alleged misconduct during testing is under investigation at Eagle Ridge Elementary School in Coral Springs.
More Broward County students are learning step-by-step instructions on cardiopulmonary resuscitation to help someone in a cardiac or breathing emergency.
Several Broward County Public Schools robotics teams put their STEM skills to the test and brought home high marks after national and world championship competitions.
A Broward principal and two of his staff members have been cleared of wrongdoing and were allowed to assume their responsibilities Wednesday amid the investigation surrounding a transgender athlete playing on a girls’ sports team at the school last year.
On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg interviews Broward County School Board Member Debra Hixon, Billy Corben, The Miami Herald’s Editor Joey Flechas and Reporter Sarah Blaskey, and WLRN Reporter Josh Ceballos.
Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Howard Hepburn has new recommendations to deal with the declining enrollment after protests over the initial plan to consider closing some schools.
On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg interviews Broward County School Board Member Debra Hixon, Billy Corben, The Miami Herald’s Editor Joey Flechas and Reporter Sarah Blaskey, and WLRN Reporter Josh Ceballos.
On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg interviews Broward County School Board Member Debra Hixon, Billy Corben, The Miami Herald’s Editor Joey Flechas and Reporter Sarah Blaskey, and WLRN Reporter Josh Ceballos.
According to a presentation Broward County Public Schools released on Monday night, the district plans to close schools due to under-enrollment.
Howard Hepburn, the new Broward County Public Schools superintendent, attended a town hall meeting on Monday at Hollywood Hills High School.
On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg interviews Broward County School Board Member Debra Hixon, Billy Corben, The Miami Herald’s Editor Joey Flechas and Reporter Sarah Blaskey, and WLRN Reporter Josh Ceballos.
Broward County Public Schools is preparing to close some schools. Their data shows that about 28% of public schools in the district have an enrollment that is under 70%.
The United Nations invited a group of teenagers from Broward County to attend an annual meeting on the status of women next month.
Measles, a highly contagious airborne virus also known as rubeola, recently infected half a dozen Broward County Public Schools students even though it can be prevented by two doses of vaccine.
It’s been six years since 17 people were killed in the Parkland school shooting, and many are honoring the victims Wednesday with moments of silence and other events.
Amid nationwide teacher shortages and as a way to remain competitive, Broward County Public Schools is considering expanding their child care programs.
A former teacher’s assistant for Broward County Public Schools is facing multiple felony charges for making threats to a number of schools the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday.
As South Florida residents and visitors faced a relentless storm, unleashing heavy rain, and whipping winds throughout Thursday, the storm’s aftermath revealed a region grappling with the impact of widespread flooding and the damage that it has caused.
Broward County Public Schools were expected to be fully reopened Friday after all schools and district offices were closed on Thursday due to the heavy rain and flooding issues.
Broward County Public Schools decided to close Thursday, so maintenance workers could assess water intrusions and safety on campuses. Broward also canceled before and after public school activities, events, field trips, sporting events, meetings and evening classes.
A Broward County Public Schools first-grade teacher’s classroom punishments for one of her students constituted criminal child neglect, according to police, leading to her arrest Tuesday.
“Rain, rain go away” was what some of the kids were saying on Wednesday morning after Broward County Public Schools announced that they canceled all of their after-school activities/operations due to heavy rains and potential flooding in the area.
Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Peter Licata reported on Tuesday that there has been a reduction in student enrollment and this will affect the district’s budget.
Marry Carr, a 23-year veteran teacher, was among the protesters who met on Wednesday afternoon to demand better pay from Broward County Public Schools.
One person has been detained after South Plantation High School was placed on lockdown Tuesday morning after a written threat was received by a teacher, police confirmed.
Broward County Public Schools students marked their first day of school Monday, which also marked Peter Licata’s very first first day of school as the district’s superintendent.
Ten out of about 1,200 school buses will be electric on the first day of school on Monday — for the first time in the history of Broward County Public Schools — and there are 50 more on the way.
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony and Peter Licata, Broward County Public Schools’ new superintendent, are relying on many of the lessons learned after the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland to improve on-campus security.
The Broward County School Board voted 5-4 against raising teachers’ wages after a day-long discussion about a proposal on Tuesday that proponents said would have made the district’s teachers one of the highest paid in Florida.
Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Peter Licata will have to continue to wait for school board members to vote on his contract agreement.
The new big boss of Broward County Public Schools joined This Week in South Florida for an exclusive conversation on Sunday.
Following Monday’s very heated Broward County Public Schools town hall meeting where most of the crowd was against clear backpacks for the upcoming school year, a new item has been added to the agenda Tuesday where board members will get to vote on removing clear backpacks for consideration.
Broward County parents, staff and members of the community can participate in a safety town hall meeting Monday in Plantation hosted by the Broward County School Board and Broward County Public Schools.
On Monday, June 12, Broward County Public Schools will host a Town Hall Meeting to address its new clear backpack rule for the start of the new school year.
Teachers and students were waiting outside of their school on Friday in Hollywood after an alleged threat prompted an evacuation, according to Broward County Public Schools.
An 18-year-old Broward County Public Schools student was on house arrest on Monday facing charges over an alleged school shooting threat.
More than two dozen candidates applied to be the next Broward County Public Schools superintendent, according to a list published by the district Friday.
Broward School Board chair Lori Alhadeff announced that Broward County Public Schools will be preparing to reopen on Monday after a flooding emergency prompted schools to close on Thursday and Friday.
