Miami-Dade County Public Schools students will receive free breakfast and lunch for the 2024-2025 school year.

Miami-Dade County Public School students are returning to class on Thursday. The yellow buses were already leaving the parking lot at about 6:30 a.m.

As Miami-Dade County public school students prepare to return to the classroom, teachers are hard at work transforming their learning spaces into vibrant and engaging environments.

One South Florida organization is making an effort to meet the needs of students getting ready to go back to school.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools are bracing for a potential influx of migrant students as the district continues to recruit ESOL teachers and offers specialized programs to help foreign-born students acclimate.

Archdiocese of Miami's Catholic schools will welcome students on the first day of the 2024-25 school year on Tuesday.

School officials and students in Broward County has a smoother second day of school Tuesday, after the first was marked with long lines at school entrances because of new security measures.

On Monday hundreds of students attending Broward County Public Schools will be having new teachers, subjects and classmates, but they will also notice some big changes when they walk through the doors. The first one is metal detectors.

Drivers in South Miami could find themselves facing a ticket if they speed in a school zone thanks to a new camera system.

Broward County Public Schools students will receive free breakfast and lunch for the 2024-2025 school year.

Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres held a news conference Friday morning, less than a week before students return from summer break.

South Florida school bus drivers are getting ready to roll out once again for the start of the new year.

Pembroke Pines officials agreed to allocate School Resource Officers at all of the public schools in the city until December and will continue discussions on how to cover the cost.

Altruism can be found in people of all sizes and ages.

There is a new normal at Broward County public high schools.

The United Way of Broward County is helping hundreds of students in military families get ready to return to school.

Teachers around Broward County are putting the finishing touches on their classrooms as they get ready to welcome students for the new school year.

Broward County Public Schools will hold a drive-thru job fair for bus operators for the new school year.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools launched a week of professional training for over 400 new teachers on Monday.

Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and his teammates surprised students with backpacks full of school supplies on Thursday as they prepared to head back to class.

A professional football star with South Florida roots was in town to help local kids get ready for the new school year.

The Family Expo -- the largest, free, family resources event in our community-- will be held in late July and early August to help prepare families in need with services and supplies for back to school.

Broward County Public Schools students marked their first day of school Monday, which also marked Peter Licata’s very first first day of school as the district’s superintendent.

Ten out of about 1,200 school buses will be electric on the first day of school on Monday — for the first time in the history of Broward County Public Schools — and there are 50 more on the way.

It was a gift that was good for the sole.

Whether it be school transportation or staying safe, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue is reminding drivers and students Thursday to enjoy a safe first day of school and school year by observing some safety guidelines which you can read in the story below.

Summer is officially over for Miami-Dade public school students as they head back to the classroom for the first day of school on Thursday.

As the new school year gets underway doctors and parents are expressing concern about the continuing shortage of ADHD medicines and the impact it's having on their children's ability to learn.

A group of “teachers, students, community members and Teamsters” were expected to march to the Miami-Dade school board headquarters Wednesday in protest of Florida’s controversial Black history standards.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ first day of the 2023-24 school year is on Thursday and there will be about 20 new electric buses to pick up students.

Educators are gearing up for a new school year across Broward County.

As students in South Florida prepare to head back to the classroom, Miami-Dade Public Schools held an active shooter training at a Miami high school Monday morning.

Who's excited for the first day of school?! Send us your child's pic to be featured on local10.com and the chance to even be featured on air!

A nonprofit organization hosted a back-to-school giveaway at Wilton Manors Elementary on Sunday.

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Marleine Bastien is hosting two back-to-school events for her District 2 community this weekend.

Nationwide, students have been absent at record rates since schools reopened after COVID-forced closures.

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony and Peter Licata, Broward County Public Schools’ new superintendent, are relying on many of the lessons learned after the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland to improve on-campus security.

Local 10 News received an inside look Wednesday at the new menu items being served to students for free at Miami-Dade County public schools.

The time for South Florida students to head back to their classrooms is fast-approaching.

All public school students in Broward County will receive free breakfast and lunch for the 2023-2024 school year, the district confirmed on Thursday.

A 19-year-old South Florida woman is leaving town on Thursday to head to Yale and begin her PhD.

Teachers are leaving jobs in growing numbers, state reports show.

Florida's recent curriculum changes are stirring up a lot of outrage as they relate to the guidelines on teaching about slavery.

The Broward County School Board voted 5-4 against raising teachers’ wages after a day-long discussion about a proposal on Tuesday that proponents said would have made the district’s teachers one of the highest paid in Florida.

Regardless of the time of year, or how old your kids are, it's important to have a system in place to wind them down at the end of the day.

Parents and guardians of Broward County Public Schools students now have new technology to help them track their child’s school bus.

As kids across South Florida settle into their new school routines, there’s an inevitable part of “back to school” that every family deals with once the bell rings at the end of the day. Homework.

Tools For Schools, a partnership between Publix Supermarkets and Local 10 News, is helping to provide three schools with the supplies students need to be successful during this new school year.

On Wednesday, thousands of children from Miami-Dade County returned back to school.

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Tools For Schools, a partnership between Publix Supermarkets and Local 10 News, is helping to provide three schools with the supplies students need to be successful during this new school year.

Ahead of the new school year, the superintendent in Miami-Dade County opened up about his plan for issues both COVID and non-COVID related that they may face.

As Broward County Public Schools students head out for their first day of school on Tuesday, technology will soon be launched to track their school bus.

Thousands of students in Broward County are heading back to classrooms Tuesday.

Tools For Schools, a partnership between Publix Supermarkets and Local 10 News, is helping to provide three schools with the supplies students need to be successful during this new school year.

Kraft Heinz is recalling thousands of pouches of Capri Sun after some cleaning solution accidentally mixed with the juice on a production line.

All public school students in Miami-Dade County will receive free breakfast and lunch for the 2022-2023 school year, the district confirmed on Monday.

With just hours away from the first day of the 2022-23 school year, Broward County Public Schools employees were preparing on Monday for students to return to classrooms on Tuesday morning.

Some Florida schools have moved library books and debated changing textbooks in response to a law critics call “Don’t Say Gay.”.

Summer is winding down and school is just around the corner!

The return to the classroom Tuesday comes after several years of pandemic-related disruptions.

Gov. Ron DeSantis released a video on Thursday encouraging U.S. military veterans to participate in his effort to deal with teacher shortages.

It's time for students to get back-to-school health checkups.

Barry University played host to active shooter drills Thursday, as Miami Shores police brushed up on best practices for responding to a mass shooting.

Akaya Giles was preparing to start driving students to and from public school starting on Monday in Broward County.

As students prepare to go back to school, Broward County deputies trained for the worst-case scenario Thursday, holding an active shooter simulation at Deerfield Beach High School.

It has been a year since Vickie L. Cartwright became interim superintendent of Broward County Public Schools. In February, the school board gave her the job permanently.

The event, held at Overtown’s Williams Park, has been going on for twenty years. It offered services like dental cleanings, haircuts, nails and backpacks filled with school supplies.

Residents at The Palace Gardens in Homestead, an assisted living and memory support community, are making art to make a difference.

It’s hard to think of a more bittersweet moment than when you send a kid off to kindergarten for the first time.

Broward County Public Schools has 1,300 job openings it is trying to fill as it gears up for the upcoming school year.

The sex education textbook discussion continues Thursday for the Miami-Dade School Board, a week after it voted to disallow two controversial textbooks in the classroom.

Florida’s back-to-school sales tax holiday begins next Monday, giving families a break on the 6% sales tax rate as the start of the new school year nears.

The cost of basic school supplies are out of reach for some financially-strapped families, and it’s often a situation where teachers need to step in and help.

The U.S. Secretary of Education visited Cypress Bay High School and Broward College on Monday in Weston.

Bedtime stories are a fond memory many of us have from our childhood, and on the same note, it’s a memory many of us want to give our children, as well.

Now that the school year is well underway and students are off to the races for another year of learning and studying, we thought we’d ask: Can we see your pictures?

Bigger is not necessarily better anymore, especially when it comes to gatherings. But that doesn’t mean children and families can’t get together, in some sense, for some fun.

As the Delta variant fuels a surge in COVID cases in South Florida, the School Board of Broward County decided to continue standing by the enforcement of indoor face mask use.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho is scheduled to report on the first day of the 2021-22 school year at 3 p.m., on Monday.

University of Miami students go back to class on Monday. The school released COVID-19 health and guidance measures on Friday, stating that masks are required in all indoor public spaces, including classrooms.

Miami-Dade County Public School students head back to classrooms with improvements in place, yet still a shortage of bus drivers and teachers.

Broward Health launches a monoclonal antibody clinic in their pediatric center with the goal of preventing patients from being admitted into the hospital and ICU.

Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and the Miami-Dade County school board will have to deal with a legal battle with the state of Florida after defying Gov. Ron DeSantis' order against school face mask requirements.

We somehow made it to August, which means it’s back-to-school time for students and teachers everywhere.

The mother of a student at Renaissance Charter School at Cooper City is worried about her son’s safety since the school is not enforcing the universal indoor face mask mandate that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended for schools, and it is not reporting the number of COVID cases.

Broward County Public Schools started the first day of the 2021-22 school year on Wednesday with a universal indoor face mask mandate. Interim Superintendent Vickie L. Cartwright said only one student and one teacher in the entire district refused to wear a mask.

Seven-year-old Annabell Saintil arrived at St. Lawrence Catholic School with a face mask and said she was ready to start the 2021-22 school year on Wednesday in Miami-Dade County.

The School Board of Miami-Dade County is likely to side with Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s recommendation to implement a universal face mask mandate with a medical opt-out, a school board member said on Wednesday.

The school board in Miami-Dade County voted to approve a face mask mandate that will be in place when the new school year begins next week.

With students now going back to school or preparing for that very moment, there are probably lots of groans over the fact that summer is about to end -- and understandably so.

Florida’s education chief Richard Corcoran wants to punish Broward County Public Schools for not following Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order that bans mask mandates.

School is back in session Wednesday in Broward County, and at a time when pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising, some are worried more children could get since as they return to the classroom.

Getting dinner on the table at a reasonable hour can be a challenge, but those who have Instant Pots know that dinner can be done in 30 minutes or less with this trendy cooking machine.

Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho announced Miami-Dade County Public Schools will implement a face mask mandate with an opt-out medical accomodation. The policy was still being crafted Monday afternoon.

More and more students are taking advantage of the opportunity to graduate high school early, mostly a semester early in December or January.

More and more students are taking advantage of the opportunity to graduate high school early, mostly a semester early in December or January.

The first day of school is hard, but one 8-year-old boy helped his classmate with autism, who was having a particularly hard time.

On Twitter, a woman posed the following question.

Starting high school can understandably create nervousness among parents and kids.