Stuart Bell speaks at a commencement ceremony at the University of Alabama, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He stepped down at Alabama shortly after and is the lone finalist for the University of Florida presidency.

Treadmills in the new Perry Weather Heat Lab, part of the Korey Stringer Institute. | University of North FloridaInstitute’s new UNF satellite location include these treadmills. | UNF

Florida State University students wait for news amid an active shooter incident at the school’s campus April 17, 2025, in Tallahassee. | Kate Payne, AP

William M. Raines High School opened on Jan.y 25, 1965. It was named in honor of longtime local educator who was principal of segregated high schools before his death in 1950. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Alex Monteagudo will graduate with a double degree in economics and political science from Yale on Monday, May 18, 2026. Monteagudo is a Jacksonville native who will become a naval submarine officer after graduation. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Jacksonsville City Council member Tyrona Clark-Murray was removed from classroom duties in the Duval County Public Schools. | Campaign website for Tyrona Clark-Murray

Students arrive to catch an early morning school bus, Oct. 9, 2025, in San Antonio, Texas. | Eric Gay, AP

A cursive handwriting practice sheet. The Florida Legislature passed a bill that mandates cursive instruction for grades three through five. | Photo illustration by Kaley Mantz

Cameras on Duval County school buses will capture images of people passing illegally. | Nancy Guan, WUSF

A billboard alerts people to Talkable Communities' suicide prevention training in a six-county area. | Talkable Communities

The original Hogan–Spring Glen Elementary School on Beach Boulevard. | Duval County Public Schools

The St. Johns County School District faces a budget shortfall that the superintendent blames partly on private school vouchers. | Megan Mallicoat, Jacksonville Today

A statue of children reading in front of DCPS headquarters | Megan Mallicoat, Jacksonville Today

The 2026 Student Mental Health Conference gave nearly 500 Duval County Public Schools students a chance to share specificity about their mental health programming needs. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

People carry signs that read, in Spanish, "Justice for Immigrants" and "We are humans." Hundreds gathered to protest peacefully against Florida Senate Bill 1718, which imposed restrictions on undocumented immigrants, June 1, 2023, in Immokalee. | Rebecca Blackwell, AP

The Clay County Sheriff's Office arrested a Jacksonville teacher on charges of transmitting child sexual material. | File photo

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters, state Rep. Wyman Duggan, R-Jacksonville, and Jacksonville City Council Member Ju'Coby Pittman announce a $3 million investment in job training programs in Northwest Jacksonville on Thursday, April 16, 2026, near a memorial to the victims of a race-motivated shooting at a Dollar General in Grand Park. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

St. Augustine archaeology crews are hard at work, including this site at the St. Benedict the Moor school. | City of St. Augustine

Cameron Frazier is the founder and principal of Becoming Collegiate Academy. The school's mascot is a brown bear in homage to the children's book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?" | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

River City Science Academy Elementary School on Beach Boulevard. | Google Maps

A crash crumpled this school bus on Zoo Parkway in Jacksonville. | News4Jax

A school bus and a truck collided Wednesday, April 8, 2026, near the Jacksonville Zoo and Botantical Gardens. | News4Jax