At the start of the 2023-24 school year, more than 7,000 teacher vacancies were in Florida. The state had another 5,000 support positions, such as teaching assistants, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and para-educators. That brings the total number of vacancies in Florida to more than 12,000. At the start of the school year, many of those vacancies remained open, and ...

Florida has been going up against Disney constantly for the last year. Starting with when former Disney CEO Bob Chapek spoke out against the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, officially known as the Parental Rights in Education Act, the Walt Disney Company and the state of Florida have been going back and forth in a move that ultimately resulted in the ...