A community input meeting was held at the Mentholee Municipal Building in Newberry Wednesday evening by Education First for Newberry Inc., the group helping to facilitate the city’s plan to convert ...

After seven hours of counting ballots, the initiative that would turn Newberry Elementary School, Oak View Middle School, and Newberry High School into community-based, public charter schools failed ...

The Alachua County School Board met on Tuesday to discuss the April vote to convert three public schools to charter schools starting in the 2025-26 academic year. The conversions would include ...

The proposed bill adds municipalities to the list of groups and entities already allowed to submit an application to convert a traditional public school into a charter. Current state law reserves that ...

The Florida Department of Education's Charter School Review Commission approved the application to convert Newberry Elementary School into a public charter school. The decision comes despite ...