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News orgs urge Orange County schools to change policy that "chills First Amendment-protected speech
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (398+ words) A coalition of news organizations and a press freedom group have penned a letter to Orange County Public Schools, urging district leadership to revise a...
Blue-collar city workers on Florida's Space Coast form new union
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1420+ words) A group of blue-collar city workers employed by the city of Titusville on Florida's Space Coast voted 79 to 12 in late April to form a new union with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 606, after seeing their former union decertified…...
Florida schools directed to add AI to internet safety policies
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (24+ words) All districts already have an "Internet Safety" policy in place, and now the DOE is requiring districts to amend the policy to include AI....
University of Florida presidential hopeful Stuart Bell says he won't bring "woke' back
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (1205+ words) Stuart Bell, the lone finalist to be the next president of University of Florida, aimed to avoid the fate of the previous solo finalist by pledging allegiance to the conservative higher education policies storming Florida campuses." During an afternoon of…...
Orange County Library System offers free book to kids in June as part of summer reading challenge
1+ week, 6+ day ago (539+ words) Orange County's public library system will offer one free book to children up to 18 this June, while supplies last, as part of the library system's 2026 summer reading challenge. "For the past couple of years, they have donated money for the…...
Orange County commissioner Nicole Wilson launches youth leadership council
3+ week, 1+ day ago (680+ words) Orange County commissioner Nicole Wilson, representing District 1, has launched a new youth leadership council in partnership with the Orlando-based nonprofit Empower Teens United that will serve as an advisory group highlighting youth perspectives. Wilson's district consists of parts of west…...
Florida school choice advocates push back against union's "frivolous' voucher suit
3+ week, 2+ day ago (18+ words) The state education commissioner and school choice advocates have clapped back at the Florida Education Association's lawsuit....
UCF students boo commencement speaker over AI praise
4+ week, 2+ day ago (410+ words) Join 30, 000 locals who stay current on Orlando news, culture, and events. Get Orlando Weekly's free daily newsletter. A University of Central Florida graduation ceremony turned into a brief humiliation ritual for commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield after she called AI "the…...
Florida teachers union, parents sue state over crumbling public school system starved by state vouchers
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (400+ words) Ladara Royal, a teacher at Lake Buena Vista High School, speaks at a press conference announcing the Florida Education Association's lawsuit (Tallahassee,...
Staff of Gen Z-led nonprofit Youth Action Fund have organized a union
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (444+ words) University of Central Florida students organized a 'student strike' Friday, April 10, 2026, to raise awareness of demands for the university as part of a...