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• Hundreds of Valencia College students received a message at the end of last year saying they would not be able to use their federal financial aid for the incoming spring semester.
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• A new bill in the Florida Legislature would require public high schools to offer religion classes as electives.
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• NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule on Jan. 1. Data collected from the flyby provides insight into Earth’s building blocks.
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• According to data from American College Health Association, the suicide rate of young adults between the ages of 15 and 24 has tripled since the 1950s and is now the second most common cause of death among college students.
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• Some teachers’ unions are rethinking their relationship to charter schools after a US supreme court ruling in 2018 that’s expected to have an impact on union membership and revenue. Education Week writer Arianna Prothero joins Intersection to explain what this means for unions and for charter schools.
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• August babies are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than babies born in September.
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• Of the women entering science, technology, engineering and math careers today, 45 percent of them will be gone from the STEM field by the time they turn 40. 90.7’s Brendan Byrne took a look at the faculty in the engineering field around the state to explore the demographic makeup and salaries of college faculty.
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• The University of Central Florida is launching a program to help cover the cost of childcare for students who are parents. The program covers 50% or more of childcare costs for Pell grant students who have children enrolled at UCF’s on-campus childcare center.
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• The recounts in three statewide races in Florida were closely watched by journalists, lawyers, and voters. For civics teachers this election was also a teachable moment 90.7’s Danielle Prieur talks to 7th grade civics teacher Matt Kiernan about the recount as a lesson in politics.
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• Florida educators are using historic recounts in Florida’s Senate, gubernatorial and agriculture commissioner races as a teaching tool.
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