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Daylina Miller/WUSFThroughout history, each generation has wanted better opportunities for the next. And for many migrant farmworkers, getting a better education for their children is a key value. But economic hardships often force teenage migrants to leave school early and go to work. -
Students at historically Black colleges and universities in Florida are finding different ways to cope with illness, grief, family obligations and uncertainty. For the multiethnic Black community, COVID-19 has been an added stressor atop another centuries-long pandemic: racial injustice.
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When schools shut down last spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the closures were especially difficult for families of children with disabilities or severe medical conditions. Then came perhaps an even tougher dilemma: what to do when schools reopened in the fall.
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It's long been true that some students who attend Monroe County schools struggle with not having enough food to eat, and COVID-19 has made the situation worse. Educators say the pandemic also has led to new solutions for student hunger.
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A nationally representative survey released late last year by Education Next, a peer-reviewed education research journal affiliated with Harvard University, found that white students were much more likely than Black or Latino students to be learning in person.
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By the time Lilia Francois gets behind the wheel, a school has tried everything else to locate the child missing from class.
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Students in the greater Tampa Bay region are learning more about the history of their communities through an educational project involving African American cemeteries.
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We examine the impact COVID-19 has had on students in Florida during a special report starting Sunday afternoon at 3 on WUSF 89.7, followed by a conversation about the series on Florida Matters, Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
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These women search for farmworkers’ children, to help educate them. COVID-19 made their jobs harder.
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The president spoke to CNN and a small group of socially distanced Americans about his coronavirus response.
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The emergency order points to a “disproportionate numbers of educationally disadvantaged students learning off-campus or not attending school at all" due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Parents in the Sunshine State are planning a “bright future” for their children by investing in Florida Prepaid College Savings Plans.
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The new rules allow 50 percent capacity at all outdoor events, and four spectators for each athlete or performer at indoor events, with a 50 percent capacity.
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He says school districts should "stay the course" and reiterated that schools "have been operating safely for in-person instruction since last August."
