Broward County Public Schools administrators announced Sunday morning that a person had been arrested over threats.

In a lengthy discussion Tuesday, the Broward County School Board postponed the vote on whether to suspend or terminate a Broward Schools employee and mother of a transgender athlete.

Things got heated at the Broward County School Board Tuesday as board members discussed an exit package for Peter Licata, a little more than a month after the superintendent’s abrupt retirement after less than a year on the job.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg interviews Broward County School Board Member Debra Hixon, Billy Corben, The Miami Herald’s Editor Joey Flechas and Reporter Sarah Blaskey, and WLRN Reporter Josh Ceballos.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg interviews Broward County School Board Member Debra Hixon, Billy Corben, The Miami Herald’s Editor Joey Flechas and Reporter Sarah Blaskey, and WLRN Reporter Josh Ceballos.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg interviews Broward County School Board Member Debra Hixon, Billy Corben, The Miami Herald’s Editor Joey Flechas and Reporter Sarah Blaskey, and WLRN Reporter Josh Ceballos.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg interviews Broward County School Board Member Debra Hixon, Billy Corben, The Miami Herald’s Editor Joey Flechas and Reporter Sarah Blaskey, and WLRN Reporter Josh Ceballos.

There were heated discussions at Tuesday's Broward County School Board meeting over resolutions supporting Pride.

On Thursday, more families of the victims — as well as survivors — of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre visited the building where their loved ones, colleagues and classmates were killed more than five years ago.

The Broward State Attorney's Office has confirmed that family members and survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre will be allowed inside the 1200 building where the shooting occurred beginning Wednesday.

Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Peter Licata will have to continue to wait for school board members to vote on his contract agreement.

Following Monday’s very heated Broward County Public Schools town hall meeting where most of the crowd was against clear backpacks for the upcoming school year, a new item has been added to the agenda Tuesday where board members will get to vote on removing clear backpacks for consideration.

After a jury couldn’t agree on the death penalty in the Parkland school shooting, Republican lawmakers in Tallahassee are proposing to make it easier to send condemned convicts to death row.

Broward County School Board members gave the superintendent another chance to prove herself and in 90 days she will have to provide a progress report.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg welcome Broward School Board members Laurie Rich Levinson and Debra Hixon, Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart and state congressional candidate Ashley Gantt.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg welcome Broward School Board members Laurie Rich Levinson and Debra Hixon, Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart and state congressional candidate Ashley Gnatt.

A Florida grand jury report, years in the making, examined school safety, the spending for it and why progress is lost in bureaucracy.

The prosecution team that is seeking the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland school shooter, started to call witnesses after Assistant State Attorney Michael J. Satz delivered his opening statement on July 18.

Two gun control advocates from Parkland, one a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting and the other the parent of a student killed, are in Washington, D.C., at the second March for Our Lives rally.

March for Our Lives was started by teens in 2018 after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. On Saturday, hundreds gathered to once again implore lawmakers for action on gun control.

The tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School created a deep pain across a community that prompted a district-wide discussion on how to better secure school campuses.

The school districts in Broward and Miami-Dade counties are each looking for a new superintendent, but their processes differ.

As Nikolas Cruz entered his guilty plea Wednesday in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom, there were tears and hugs among families of the victims.

The Broward County School Board voted 8-1 in favor of keeping their mask requirement for students and staff members at the start of the upcoming 2021-22 school year.

The Broward County School Board voted Tuesday to approve the mutual separation agreement for Superintendent Robert Runcie that was agreed upon a day prior between Runcie’s attorney and board Chair Dr. Rosalind Osgood.

The Broward County School Board is meeting again Thursday to finalize negotiations regarding its separation with its general counsel Barbara Myrick.

The School Board of Broward County is meeting on Wednesday for a workshop in Fort Lauderdale.

The Broward County School Board met Thursday with agenda items that would allow a moving forward of negotiations with the superintendent and the school districts lawyer, who are facing charges of perjury.

Lori Alhadeff said on Wednesday that the latest School Board of Broward County workshop is the beginning of a much-needed process.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg is joined by Director of Florida Division of Emergency Management Jared Moskowitz, Broward School Board member Debra Hixon, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, and attorneys Shannon Ligon and Aaron Carter Bates.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg is joined by Director of Florida Division of Emergency Management Jared Moskowitz, Broward School Board member Debra Hixon, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, and attorneys Shannon Ligon and Aaron Carter Bates.

Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie and school district attorney Barbara Myrick were arrested last week.

Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie was arrested Wednesday morning on a charge of perjury in an official proceeding. School Board attorney Barbara Myrick was also arrested.

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – Debra Hixon defeated Jeff Holness for Broward School Board Seat 9 in a runoff election Tuesday after neither candidate received at least 50% of the vote in August’s primary. Holness is the cousin of Broward County Mayor Dale Holness and has worked in the Broward School System for 17 years as an educator. This was Holness' fifth attempt at running for public office, having unsuccessfully ran for Plantation City Council three times and the Sunrise City Commission once. In the August primary, Hixon received 41.6% of the vote while Holness picked up 25.9%. The Broward School Board seat became available when Robin Bartleman, a longtime member of the board, was elected to a seat in the Florida House of Representatives.