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The Lee County School Board will discuss solutions to the district’s school bus driver shortage and the many resulting issues during Tuesday night’s meeting. It’s no secret: Lee County parents are unhappy with the current school bus system. Children are often picked up late or come home late. Parents regularly receive text alerts about their […]

A group of faith leaders is coming together to fight the state of Florida’s proposal to eliminate African American studies and diversity programs. An advanced placement (AP) course currently in development offers high school students an evidence-based introduction to African American studies, and the Florida Department of Education rejected it. “For me and other pastors, […]

Florida would make every student eligible for vouchers to attend private school with taxpayer money under proposed legislation that House Speaker Paul Renner said Thursday will be a priority for the session that begins in March. The bill could greatly expand the state’s current voucher programs but would give priority to low-income and special needs […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has blocked a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies from being taught in high schools, saying it violates state law and is historically inaccurate. The state education department rejected the program in a letter last week to the College Board, which oversees AP classes. Florida education officials did not […]

The Florida House next week could start moving forward with a proposal (HB 99) that seeks to allow colleges, universities and their employees to steer endorsement opportunities toward student-athletes. The House Postsecondary Education and Workforce Subcommittee is scheduled Tuesday to take up the measure, which would make a major change in Florida’s athlete pay law, […]

  Tuesday is the first day back in school after winter break in Lee County, and not a day too soon for some parents and students. Some kids who spoke to WINK News couldn’t wait to return to school to see their friends again, while others could have done with another week off. Students had […]

Professors and other plaintiffs are urging a federal appeals court to keep in place a preliminary injunction against a new Florida law that seeks to restrict the way race-related concepts can be taught in universities. Attorneys in two challenges to the law filed documents Thursday arguing that the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should […]

A 15-year-old Cape Coral High School student was arrested Monday after police say he made a school shooting threat online. According to the Cape Coral Police Department, school resource officers from CCPD learned that a student had posted “I feel like shooting the school up ngl” to Google Classroom, a blended learning platform utilized by […]

  On Monday, Hector A. Cafferata Jr. Elementary School students and staff reunited in portable classrooms for the first time since Hurricane Ian. The Cape Coral school couldn’t be used after the hurricane because of the severe damage it sustained, but hundreds of children who went there finally came back together, just not in the […]

Many Cape Coral parents are still contacting WINK News about people breaking the rules of the road near elementary schools without being held accountable. Dozens of parents have spoken out about speeding in school zones and all of the damaged or displaced road signs and traffic lights. This time, she set out to answer two […]