Kate Payne | Associated Press/Report for America
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State police are showing up at Florida voters’ homes to question them about signing a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the ballot in November.
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A Florida county's plan to turn a historic ship into the world's largest artificial reef hits a snagA Florida county is in talks to acquire a storied but aging ocean liner in a proposed deal that could create the largest artificial reef in the world. But the plan hit a snag Tuesday, after local officials in coastal Okaloosa County in the Florida panhandle postponed a vote on the plan to buy and purposefully sink the SS United States.
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Attorneys for the state of Florida say the execution of a man with Parkinson’s symptoms should not be delayed. Death row inmate Loran Cole is appealing the state's lethal injection procedures to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Tens of thousands of students have left Florida’s public schools in recent years amid an explosive growth in school choice. Now districts large and small are reckoning with the harsh financial realities of empty seats in aging classrooms.
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School board candidates in Florida backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis were defeated in several counties, results that opponents of the Republican say are a rebuke to his conservative education agenda.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t on the ballot — but his education agenda is. DeSantis is once again throwing his weight behind county school board candidates across the state.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “parental rights” campaign didn’t win him the Republican presidential nomination, but he’s still waging that fight on another front. He's targeting Florida schools, where the movement could have an impact on public education long after he leaves office.
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The rollout of new metal detectors made for a chaotic first day of school in Broward County. The botched rollout has further frustrated students and parents in the country’s sixth-largest school district. The district has long faced criticism for rushing new policy changes.
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A storm system brewing over Cuba on Friday could bring torrential rain and flooding to the Florida peninsula this weekend. The forecast is expecially concerning for low-lying coastal and urban areas that were inundated in June.
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Millions of children are going without extra food on the table this summer, after 13 states said no to joining a federal program that helps families in need buy groceries.