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President Donald Trump is demanding a $1 billion payment from Harvard University to end his prolonged standoff with the Ivy League campus, doubling the amount he sought previously as both sides appear to move further from reaching a deal.

Spain's government plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said.

School districts across Central Florida are making adjustments in transportation and on campuses to prepare for freezing temperatures Monday.

A video alleging fraud in Somali-run child care centers in Minneapolis has drawn attention throughout the United States.

Despite proclaiming last February as National Black History Month, President Donald Trump's second term has been marked by what critics say are attacks on Black history in the United States.

An Osceola County school is trying to reassure the community after someone posted a picture of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on the school’s morning TV announcements.

In a letter, BPS Superintendent Mark Rendell announces the district will cut 7% of staff positions in each department.

Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” star Rose Byrne as its 2026 Woman of the Year.

The Trump administration has concluded that San Jose State University discriminated against women by letting a transgender athlete play on the women’s volleyball team.

Claiming to give every child “a shot at financial freedom,” President Donald Trump is unveiling the new Trump Accounts initiative, which gives $1,000 to every newborn if their parents open an account.

Yale University is eliminating tuition for new undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000 a year.

A Florida Senate bill would allow parents to opt out of vaccines if they conflict with their conscience, adding to an already-existing exemption for religious beliefs. The bill would also allow Ivermectin to be sold without a prescription.

The district is preparing to decide whether to close seven Orange County schools because of low enrollment. A workshop will discuss community meetings and review survey results from families.

An Osceola County mother says her 13-year-old son was put in an unsafe situation after multiple students were forced to sit on the floor of a school bus due to overcrowding.

The Trump administration has thrown up new obstacles for international students, from travel bans to a pause in visa appointments and new layers of vetting.

Federal education officials say a New York school district is “erasing its Native American heritage” and violating civil rights law by changing its team name from the “Thunderbirds” to the “T-Birds.”.

A federal judge ruled that the academics, who are party to a lawsuit alleging U.S. policy singles out noncitizens for detention or deportation over their pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses, can seek relief from the court if their immigration status is changed as retribution for taking part in the case.

President Donald Trump's budget office is telling government agencies to compile data on federal money sent to a group of 14 mostly Democratic-controlled states and the District of Columbia.

Missouri gambling regulators have rejected an NCAA request to ban bets on college athletes' performance.

An auction house in New York is marking the United States' 250th birthday by selling items that trace the nation’s history through some of its most iconic documents.

The former Des Moines superintendent has plead guilty in federal court to falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and illegally possessing firearms.

The State Board of Education on Wednesday took up a report that showed the greatest needs for teachers. For example, about 8,900 of the 37,200 total English courses taught in Florida's public schools had teachers during the 2024-2025 school year not certified in the field, according to the report.

The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colleges.

Orange County Public Schools are operating under capacity due to a decline in birth rates, an aging population, and increased school choice, which have drastically lowered enrollment numbers and impacted the district financially.

A former Uvalde schools police officer who was among the first to respond to the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school has been acquitted of criminal charges that he failed his duty to confront the gunman.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he owes Indiana Gov. Mike Braun some key lime pie and stone crabs after losing a bet.

School threat hoaxes can cost upwards of $10,000 to respond to and investigate, on Central Florida sheriff said after a trio of school threat hoaxes in a five-day-span. But the ripple effects extend beyond wasted taxpayer dollars.

The district is considering closing Cape View Elementary School in Cape Canaveral because of a decline in enrollment.

Many students will have to prepare for lectures about communism coming later this year.

The Trump administration is delaying its plans to withhold pay from student loan borrowers who default on their payments, backing off a measure that threatened to deliver a financial blow to millions of Americans.

The Education Department is opening fewer sexual violence investigations at schools and universities.

Federal prosecutors are investigating a major betting scheme involving NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games.

A federal appeals panel has reversed a lower court decision that released former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail, bringing the government one step closer to detaining and ultimately deporting the Palestinian activist.

Garnishments were suspended during the global pandemic but now, they’re back and a lot of folks are about to receive some unpleasant news.

Classes at Christopher Columbus High School in Miami are canceled Tuesday.

Statewide, the Florida high school graduation rate is at 92.2%, up from 89.7% the previous year. Central Florida's school districts are also touting improved rates.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference in Pinellas County to announce his pick of Judge Adam Tanenbaum to serve on the state’s supreme court.

Orange County Public Schools is considering significant changes to seven schools as enrollment declines.

Amid a push to replace Gov. Ron DeSantis later this year, one candidate is promising to impose a 50% "Sin Tax."

Ahead of the general election later this year, a 19-year-old student at the University of Central Florida is running to hold a position on the Seminole County School Board.

A state audit is recommending that Orange County Public Schools maintain attendance records to demonstrate that at least one school resource officer is present at each school every day.

Lake County school board will once again discuss rebuilding Eustis Elementary, a school that has been a community cornerstone for 100 years.

Truancy is a significant issue across Central Florida, where six counties—Flagler, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola and Volusia—have rates above the state average for students missing 21 or more days. To intervene early, legislators are considering HB 1181 and SB 1190, which would create a mandatory alert system. This system would require school districts to notify parents when students reach truancy levels.

Opening statements began Friday in the trial of five current and former Stanford students who overtook a university building during 2024 pro-Palestine protests.

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month.

Security will be increased at Seminole County Public Schools after law enforcement officials receive several tips about a social media video.

Austin Peay State University has reinstated a professor who was fired for his social media post after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from Head Start grant applications and barred it from laying off any more federal employees in the federal Office of Head Start.

The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a campaign to end court orders they describe as outdated.

A bill filed in the Florida House calls for mandatory middle school recess.

As a shooting unfolded at Brown University on Dec. 13, students turned to the anonymous app Sidechat to document fear, confusion and grief in real time — often before receiving official alerts.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on the $12 billion Child Care and Development Fund, which subsidizes care for 1.4 million children from low-income households, has rattled child care providers and families that rely on the aid money.

Messy winter weather brought snow, ice, freezing rain and dangerous driving to the New England states as the region prepared for more unpleasant conditions later in the week.

The entire student body at one Orange County school is getting an opportunity for free college tuition.

Bonneville, Chickasaw, Eccleston, McCoy, Meadow Woods, and Orlo Vista elementary schools, and Union Park Middle School in Orange County could all potentially close. An email obtained by News 6 explains what could happen to the schools after.

The Trump administration is giving Iowa more power to decide how it spends its federal education money.

Cape Canaveral city leaders got their shot at convincing the Brevard County school board not to close Cape Canaveral’s only school on Tuesday, saying if the city loses the school, it also effectively loses its identity.

The U.S. Department of Justice has revealed that the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor planned the attack for years.

The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant applications, including “race,” “belonging” and “pregnant people.”.

The sudden closure of Legends Academy charter school causes problems for parents.

With the start of the New Year squarely behind us, it’s once again time for the annual CES trade show to shine a spotlight on the latest tech companies plan on offering in 2026.

College football Hall of Famer Urban Meyer has been appointed to the board of trustees at New College in Sarasota.

Greek authorities have removed more than 300,000 inactive university students from public university records.

Florida cities landed five spots on WalletHub’s new list of the nation’s top 20 college towns, underscoring the state’s growing influence in higher education and student life, according to an article from.

Protesting university students in Serbia have collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election.

As 2025 wraps up, The Associated Press has curated a list of memorable stories and enjoyable reads published this year.

The Trump administration says it will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default early next year.

Brown University has placed its campus police chief on leave as it reviews security policies following a tragic shooting.

Several parents are now speaking out after Orange County Public Schools announced it is moving forward with a plan that could lead to the closure of seven schools, including McCoy Elementary.

Investigators are still trying to figure out much of what Claudio Neves Valente was doing in New England in the weeks before they say he opened fire in a Brown University lecture hall and later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.

The Portuguese suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings came to the U.S. through the diversity immigrant visa program.

Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.

The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge’s order reversing billions of dollars in funding cuts to Harvard University.

Officials say a man who is suspected in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility.

An autopsy has found that the man suspected in last weekend’s attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two days when found.

A Northern California school district near the state's border with Nevada is caught up in a dispute over the states' differing policies on the participation of transgender athletes.

Four-term North Carolina Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, a major figure in late 20th-century state politics, has died at 88.

A police report obtained by News 6 Thursday reveals more details about why law enforcement was concerned about a possible threat earlier this month at a Seminole County middle school. The boy seen on school security cameras holding the clarinet “in the position of a shouldered rifle” was also dressed in camo and wearing a tactical vest.

Security footage released by the FBI shows a route taken by a person police are seeking in connection with the Brown University shooting.

Brown University says it's issuing early-decision admission offers Wednesday evening, even as the search continues for a suspect in the weekend mass shooting on campus.

A Republican push to make drilling cheaper on federal land is creating new fiscal pressure for states that depend on oil and gas revenue, most notably in New Mexico.

Police have intensified their search for a suspect in the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor Nuno F.

When a measles outbreak hit West Texas this year, school absences surged far beyond the number of children who likely became sick.

Authorities searching for a shooter who attacked students at Brown University are asking for tips from people who might have video of the shooter potentially casing the area the week before the attack.

Brown University is mourning the loss of two students killed in a classroom shooting.

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been fatally shot at his home near Boston and authorities say they have launched a homicide investigation.

Authorities have released three new videos of a man they believe is responsible for the shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine.

Authorities have released a new video timeline and a slightly clearer image of the man suspected in the Brown University shooting.

Orange County school board members will hold a special meeting on Tuesday at 1 p.m. to discuss the possible closure of several schools as the district grapples with declining enrollment.

An aspiring neurosurgeon at Brown University and a leader of a campus Republicans group were in a study group preparing for an economics final, with the end of the semester in sight.

With the Brown University shooter still on the loose, police fanned out to Providence schools to reassure parents, kids and teachers as investigators push for new evidence that might help them crack the case.

A group of students and professors in Alabama is appealing a state law that bans diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in public schools.

It’s well established that children have an easier time learning second languages.

Brown University junior Mia Tretta experienced a tragic sense of déjà vu when emergency alerts warned of a shooting on campus.

The latest shooting on a college campus in the U.S. unfolded Saturday at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Florida officials are plowing ahead with a proposal to roll back certain vaccine mandates for the state’s schoolchildren.

Since pandemic-fueled anti-Asian hate surged in 2020, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander advocates have mobilized to make AAPI history mandatory learning.

A bipartisan group in Congress is urging the Education Department to add nursing to a list of college programs that are considered “professional.”.

Measles outbreaks in South Carolina and on the Arizona-Utah border are growing.