The big story: Florida’s scores on the latest round of the National Assessment of Educational Progress didn’t offer much to cheer about.

The state’s 8th-grade reading score was below the national average for the first time since 2015, and its 8th-grade math score was the lowest in 20 years.

Today, the Florida Department of Education announced that mid-year progress monitoring results show students continue to succeed under the first-in-the-nation progress monitoring assessments.

The Florida Department of Education plans to cooperate with the Trump administration's new directive to allow immigration enforcement within schools. Why it matters: The state's cooperation could discourage undocumented parents from enrolling their children in public schools.

Data from the Florida Education Association shows there are more than 3,000 teacher vacancies in the state right now, an improvement from last year’s numbers.

Two Central Florida Democrats have filed legislation that would allow some K-12 students to take standardized tests in a language other than English in Florida.

FIU hosted a week-long series of events to showcase the university’s cutting-edge research in the midst of the U.S. Presidential transition of power.

The state’s public universities worked for months to vet their general-education courses in an attempt to bring them into compliance.

South Florida school districts are responding to federal policy changes that would allow federal immigration officers to conduct searches and arrests on school grounds after a directive issued last week removed restrictions that prevented raids in schools.

Recent data indicates that Florida's public school students have experienced significant declines in reading and mathematics performance since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Facebook post that garnered hundreds of shares, comments and reactions alleged that agents showed up “looking for someone,” but were turned away by staff. More rumors surfaced later that similar things had happened at Dunedin High School and King High School in east Tampa.

Last fiscal year, 29 students graduated from the GED program, with 324 students enrolled in the program and 179 tests administered.