For 29 years, the state of Florida has provided tuition grants for Florida residents attending a private Florida college or university full time. ...more

January 19, 2008

When Gov. Jeb Bush left office a year ago, Florida public schools ranked somewhere between the Bermuda Triangle and Petticoat Junction. ...more

January 19, 2008

TALLAHASSEE Prior to the start of the spring semester, famous class-skipper Ferris Bueller had a chance to make it as an athlete at Florida State. As of Wednesday, he would be kicked off the team by the time the first exams rolled around. ...more

January 10, 2008

TALLAHASSEE - Florida's schools ranked 14th nationally with a grade of C-plus on a report card issued Wednesday by Education Week magazine, although the state placed 38th in public education spending. ...more

January 9, 2008

Now is the time to recognize the critical contributions private nonprofit and for-profit, regionally accredited colleges and universities have made over the years, and more importantly, their great potential in being part of the solution to the financial woes currently beleaguering Florida's higher education system. ...more

December 6, 2007

The Tampa Tribune's recent editorial "Dropout Rate Might Improve If Schools Measured It Precisely" (Our Opinion, Nov. 28), which discusses Florida dropout and graduation rates, uses a flawed report from Johns Hopkins University as the basis for many of its claims. ...more

December 5, 2007

In your editorial on Nov. 21, you criticized the University of South Florida for focusing on a modern six-year graduation rate for students, rather than the four-year curriculum defined in a paradigm established long ago. The editorial was off the mark for several reasons. ...more

November 30, 2007

Regarding, " USF Pays Lip Service To Awarding Four-Year Degrees In Four Years," (Our Opinion, Nov. 21): ...more

November 30, 2007

The debate this fall over how to bankroll Florida's public universities has dealt mostly with raising tuition and new fees. But universities also got a little-noticed new source of money meant to boost their abysmally low graduation rates. ...more

November 5, 2007

Florida's public high schools have some of the worst student retention rates in the country, with half qualifying as "Dropout Factories," four times the national average, according to a new analysis of U.S. Education Department data. ...more

November 2, 2007