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A new poll shows a majority of U.S. adults disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of issues related to colleges and universities, as his Republican administration ramps up threats to cut federal funding unless schools comply with his political agenda.
A Palestinian student arrested as he was about to finalize his U.S. citizenship is accusing Columbia University of eroding democracy with its handling of protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
After white smoke rose out of the Sistine Chapel’s chimney in Vatican City, the bells from the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables and other churches in South Florida started tolling.
President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate diversity initiatives on college campuses didn’t stop minority students at the University of Kentucky from staging their own celebration.
Eight Broward County Public School seniors who earned top marks are honored with full four-year scholarships to the nation’s top schools.
Israel has closed six U.N. schools in east Jerusalem, forcing students to leave early and throwing the education of more than 800 students into question.
Attorneys handling the $2.8 billion NCAA settlement are proposing a massive do-over when it comes to roster limits.
Pro-Palestinian protesters have clashed with campus security guards after staging a protest inside Columbia University’s main library.
The president of Haverford College was berated by Republican lawmakers in a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, with some suggesting the school should lose federal funding because of her refusal to discuss student discipline in the wake of pro-Palestinian protests.
Israeli authorities have ordered six United Nations schools for the children of Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem to close this week.
Pending approval, the $2.8 billion House settlement will allow schools to share revenue with athletes directly for use of their name, image and likeness.
A Michigan court says it won’t accept an appeal from a school shooter who was sentenced to life in prison in 2023 for killing four students and wounding others.
A tax on the endowments of America’s wealthiest colleges began during President Donald Trump’s first administration, collecting 1.4% of their investment earnings.
As Congress looks to slash spending and raise revenue for President Donald Trump’s tax bill, Republicans have turned attention to the huge endowments amassed by the country’s wealthiest colleges.
It was a great start to the week for 144 students across Miami-Dade County, after they received scholarships for college from a South Florida charity.
Harvard University will receive no new federal grants until it meets a series of demands from President Donald Trump’s administration, the Education Department announced Monday.
State prosecutors have dropped felony charges against seven people accused of trespassing and resisting police a year ago during the break-up of a pro-Palestinian camp at the University of Michigan.
Gorillas continue to be at high risk of extinction in the wild in Africa due to threats that include poachers.
A former substitute teacher in Miami-Dade County was sentenced Monday to 25 years in state prison after police said he provided drugs to seven female students in exchange for sexual favors.
Students and faculty at Dakota State University are facing free speech concerns for the first time now that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is set to deliver the commencement speech May 10.
The National High School Ethics Bowl has just concluded its competition at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Florida lawmakers approved an expansion Friday on the ban on cell phones for elementary and middle school students, and are testing it in high schools.
International students in the U.S. are reconsidering their travel plans this summer after a wave of student status terminations and visa revocations.
After a Brevard County teacher drew fire for calling a student by a “preferred name,” more teachers are now being investigated, according to the local teachers’ union.
A Dartmouth College professor who worked as a consultant on the latest Assassin's Creed video game ended up getting harassed by gamers.
New York City’s police department provided federal immigration authorities with information about a Palestinian woman who was arrested at a protest.
A Nashville high school student who fatally shot a classmate before killing himself in January was on probation after threatening a student with a box cutter three months earlier.
Several thousand Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of the northern half of ethnically divided Cyprus’ capital Nicosia to protest what they say is Turkey’s attempt to erode their secular roots and to strengthen the hold of political Islam over their society.
A teacher who works at J.C. Bermudez Doral Senior High School was arrested Thursday after being discovered engaging in unlawful sexual activity with a 17-year-old student in his classroom, authorities confirmed in an arrest report obtained by Local 10 News on Friday.
A Department of Health and Human Services employee has emailed dozens of people this week, mistakenly including plans to slash research related to child safety net programs.
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across the South should be eliminated.
Prosecutors in Thailand say they don't intend to press charges against an American academic arrested for royal defamation.
The North Carolina House advanced its own restrictions on diversity, equity and inclusion practices for state agencies.
A prosecutor in Syracuse, New York, says he’ll bring charges against several students suspected in a violent hazing linked to a high school lacrosse team.
The Trump administration is moving to cancel $1 billion in school mental health grants, saying the award reflect the priorities of the previous administration.
A judge has released a Palestinian student activist who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship.
Chief Justice John Roberts appears to hold the key vote over whether the Supreme Court will allow the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma.
The federal government is expanding the reasons international students can be stripped of their legal status in the U.S., where thousands have come under scrutiny in a Trump administration crackdown that has left many afraid of being deported.
A judge has ruled that the state of New Mexico must commission a remedial plan for K-12 education because the system hasn't adequately helped Native American students and others from low-income households.
Harvard University is promising to review its academic offerings and admissions policies in response to a pair of internal reports on antisemitism and anti-Arab prejudice at the Ivy League campus following pro-Palestinian protests.
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.
The Catholic Church in Oklahoma wants taxpayers to pay for an online charter school that “is faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ.”.
The Trump administration says it's launching investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a law aimed at preventing future school shootings like the one that killed two students and two teachers in September at the Apalachee High School.
A disability-rights case at the Supreme Court grew unusually heated on Monday, including accusations of lying and references to one side’s position being a potential “five-alarm fire.”.
U.S. states are adopting and expanding programs that use taxpayer money to pay for private schools even as their costs rise and budget pictures become more uncertain.
The U.S. Department of Education says it plans to investigate whether New York education officials are being discriminatory by threatening to withhold funding if a Long Island school district doesn’t stop using a Native American-themed logo.
Democratic attorneys general in 19 states are suing the Trump administration, challenging directives to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools.
College journalists across the U.S. are navigating a surge in requests to remove previously published content amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on student protesters and what critics describe as unprecedented attacks on campus speech.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s guidance forbidding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in K-12 public schools.
Hundreds of university researchers in the U.S. have had their National Science Foundation funding abruptly canceled to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive to end support of research on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the study of misinformation.
Bogdan Daraban is among the experts who believe in the power of education to deal with fraudsters who exploit easy-to-use artificial intelligence apps.
The State Bar of Texas has rescinded a speaking invitation to the NAACP’s president after the civil rights group challenged the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Education Department.
Florida students who were traumatized by the 2018 Parkland school shooting — and last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University — are urging lawmakers in the Republican-controlled statehouse not to roll back gun restrictions they passed in the wake of the killing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Some international students in the U.S. who have had their legal status terminated in recent weeks have found a measure of success in court, with federal judges around the country issuing orders to restore students’ status at least temporarily.
The TERRA Environmental Research Institute was the winner of the 7th annual Local 10 eARTh Day Art Contest.
Student survivors of last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University are urging legislators to block an effort to reverse a law passed in the wake of the 2018 Parkland shooting that raised the state’s gun-buying age from 18 to 21.
Starting next month, the Education Department says student loans that are in default will be referred for collections.
The Anti-Defamation League says the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high last year.
Harvard University has filed suit to halt a federal freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after recently announcing it would defy the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus.
The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.
Transit police in Boston are investigating a shooting on a subway platform near Harvard University that prompted the school to issue a shelter-in-place order for students and staff.
Classes will resume at Florida State University on Monday, four days after a deadly shooting on campus left two people dead and six others injured.
Some parents in a suburban Maryland county want to pull their children from elementary school classes that use books featuring LGBTQ characters.
As U.S. colleges are pulling back on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, students of color say they are starting to lose campus mentors, move-in events, scholarships and diversity offices where they always have felt welcome on predominately white campuses.
A federal judge has ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student who was detained by immigration authorities in March to be brought to Vermont.
A class action lawsuit filed Friday asks a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students who have been stripped of their visas in a Trump administration crackdown that has left more than a thousand fearful of deportation.
A few of the people who were at Florida State University for a deadly shooting were also traumatized by the Parkland massacre seven years ago.
Two people were killed and six others were injured when a gunman opened fire at Florida State University.
Police say the shooting at Florida State University that left two dead and wounded six others lasted less than five minutes.
Alabama lawmakers approved a slew of bills that would expand the use of Christian texts in public schools and limit protections for LGBTQ+ students.
The Trump administration is asking Congress to eliminate the Head Start program, a move that would cut early education for some of the nation’s neediest children as part of drastic proposed cuts to federal health funding.
Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz on Thursday announced the immediate suspension of the county’s school bus camera citation program after officials discovered errors in the amounts listed on traffic tickets issued by the vendor, BusPatrol.
For years, President Donald Trump has complained that colleges and universities are “indoctrinating” their students with “radical left” ideas and has said they should lose their tax-exempt status.
Students and staff have returned to buildings on the Florida State University campus to retrieve their belongings a day after a gunman opened fire, killing two people and wounding at least six others.
The chief of police for the Dallas Independent School District says the student who shot four students when he opened fire at a Dallas high school this week was in and out of the building in less than two minutes and is believed to have been targeting a specific student.
Astronomers reported possible signs of life at K2-18 b, a planet light-years away in the constellation Leo that could have a global ocean.
President Donald Trump's administration has escalated its ongoing battle with Harvard, threatening to block the university from enrolling international students, who make up 27% of the campus.
A growing number of conservative leaders are pushing states to upend the long-standing U.S. constitutional right to free public education for children, regardless of immigration status.
Federal databases show Head Start centers across the U.S. have received nearly $1 billion less in federal funding compared with this time last year.
The showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard University is spotlighting bare-knuckled politics and big dollar figures.
The student accused of injuring four in a shooting at a Dallas high school was let into the building through an unsecured door and then walked down a hallway toward a group of students, opening fire on them before appearing to take a point-blank shot at one.
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Department of Defense’s school system over banned race- and gender-related educational materials.
