Thirty-six speakers addressed the board, all of them expressing distress over budget cuts, teacher non-renewals and the system’s $46.7 million budget deficit.

Protecting kids from abuse and exploitation online is focus of program held by Collier schools, sheriff's department.

Guadalupe Center Tutor Corps seniors earn more than $4 million in scholarships

Laurel Blackburn is a regional math coach serving 22 schools.

Lee County school board to vote on hiring of a staff attorney Tuesday

A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emisoft. Instructure, the company behind Canvas, said in an update late Thursday that the system was available for most users. An expert says the hacking group posted online that nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were affected, with billions of private messages and other records accessed.

Local officials thought a dispute over who would pay to collect a voter-approved school tax had been settled when Sarasota County commissioners agreed in a surprise vote this week to resume covering the millions of dollars withheld by Tax Collector Mike Moran. Turns out, the fight isn’t over. Behind the scenes, county, school and tax officials spent the next few days sparring over whether Tuesday’s commission vote actually restored the decades-old practice — or whether another formal vote would be required before the money could be released to the school district, according to emails obtained by Suncoast Searchlight.

Collier County teachers just got a raise, but not as much as they had hoped.

Community Eligibility Program changes mean fewer Charlotte County school students will receive free breakfast and lunch.

Nicole Radonski was an educator for close to 20 years before joining the school board.