Richard Corcoran

Florida Job Growth Grant Fund money will be used to build a new facility on the campus of Pasco-Hernando State College.

Tensions have run high at school board meetings around the nation in recent months.

One superintendent asks the Board of Education to take his pay, too, but was refused. Others argued their strict mandates were needed to protect students.

Hillsborough and Sarasota are among three school districts that avoided being punished by recently changing their mask policies.

Florida is the last state to submit a plan to the U.S. Department of Education that's required before more than $2.3 billion in federal aid for Florida schools can be released.

Two districts revised mask mandates to allow parental opt-outs, but others aren't backing down. Education Commission Richard Corcoran has now suggested pulling funds equal to federal grants awarded to cover the penalties of noncompliant boards.

The federal government continues to withhold one-third of the state’s allocation, which amounts to $2.3 billion.

Officials will look at the districts’ compliance with initial and revised Department of Health rules. Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran is expected to report findings of “probable cause.”

Rather than testing students at the end of the school year, DeSantis wants to move to assessments in the fall, winter and spring as a way to be more "nimble."

The U.S. Education Department announced Friday that it is investigating Florida over its rules that block local schools districts from enacting student mask mandates.

The Miami-Dade County School Board, the NAACP and other parties say the department did not have a legal basis for a rule aimed at preventing district mask mandates.

The state claims the trial judge substituted his "own health policy preferences or risk assessments for those of the governor or, more importantly, the state health officer and surgeon general.”