The Florida Department of Education may have fined the company responsible for the glitch-ridden Florida Standards Assessment, but critics say the fine won’t solve the underlying problems of the assessment test.
State Rep. Irv Slosberg, who hopes to move to the Florida Senate by taking down an incumbent in Tuesday's Democratic primary, has dug deep into his personal bank account --- $1.878 million --- for a job that pays about $30,000 a year.
And while Slosberg's self-funding total may dwarf the spending of other primary candidates, he's not alone in using his private fortune to seek office this year.
In primary contests Tuesday, 11 state Senate candidates, including Slosberg, have loaned more than $100,000 to their campaigns, according to finance reports filed last week.
Republicans are gaining on Democrats in Florida -- by the numbers, anyway. Which may not make the November election such an easy lift for Hillary Clinton.
Florida is bracing for strong winds and heavy rains which will soak the Tampa Bay area and the western portion of the state later this week.
Voters across Florida hit the polls on Tuesday to vote in primaries with a lot on the line in congressional races. After the latest round of redistricting, several incumbents retired and there are close battles across the Sunshine as Democrats and Republicans cast their ballots.
Florida gambling overseers were wrong to do away with a rule governing controversial "designated player" card games at pari-mutuel facilities without replacing the regulations, an administrative law judge said Friday.
Judge E. Gary Early's ruling could have widespread implications within the state's gambling industry and could have an impact on a lawsuit filed by the Seminole Tribe of Florida challenging the card games.
A Tallahassee judge blasted the Florida Department of Education and several school districts in Florida for their failures to follow state law when it came to promoting students to the fourth grade without taking the state’s standardized test.
Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program continues to grow in the Sunshine State and enrollment numbers are higher than ever for the 2016-2017 school year.
A tropical disturbance could become a hurricane and threaten Florida and the Gulf Coast in the next few days, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The National Hurricane Center warned Floridians there was a 70 percent chance of tropical storm system Invest 99L turning into a tropical cyclone over the next five days.
If the storm strengthens to a named storm, it would be the eighth named storm of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane season. The disturbance would be known as Hermine if it is upgraded to a named storm.
For retiring Congresswoman Gwen Graham, 2016 is all about 2018.
When announcing that she would not run for a second term in Congress back in April, Graham threw open the door to running for governor, the post her father Bob Graham held for eight years in the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s.
While Graham isn’t on the ballot this year, thanks in part to the latest round of redistricting which made her district far more hospitable to Republicans, she is staying busy on the campaign trail.
