After a year of debate, the Broward County school board adopted superintendent Howard Hepburn's proposal to close or convert under-enrolled schools. The Broward District has seen its enrollment decline by 6.6% since the pandemic, according to federal data. [ PEDRO PORTAL | El Nuevo Herald ]

USF public health professor Donna Petersen says collaboration was critical in helping community leaders respond to the pandemic. In hindsight, she says interventions like shutdowns were in place too long.

Florida lawmakers have started filing what are expected to be hundreds of proposals seeking money for local projects and programs — but legislative leaders are cautioning not to expect as much

When Miramar-based Trinity Health Care Services accepted the overpayments, its CEO was U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who has been the subject of an unrelated House ethics complaint.

A former state representative from central Florida has been arrested on federal fraud charges, reported the Orlando Sentinel. Carolina Amesty "faces two counts of theft of government property related to COVID relief fraud,

U.S. prosecutors are charging former state Rep. Carolina Amesty with stealing from the federal government’s COVID-19 relief funds, the latest humiliating turn in the career of a woman once viewed as a rising star in the Florida GOP.

Former state Rep. Carolina Amesty is accused of fraudulent activity involving COVID-19 relief funds, according to federal complaint filed on Thursday

The graduation rate for the class of 2024 was the highest ever, not counting the two pandemic-impacted year when students did not have to pass state tests to earn a diploma.

Following a nationwide trend, incidences of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, have been increasing to pre-pandemic levels. But in 2024 in Florida, the number of cases was still almost double that of 2019, which recorded 359 cases.

A Florida state agency is suing a company owned by the family ... “Trinity took advantage of the state of emergency the entire country was encountering due to the COVID-19 pandemic and knowingly processed an invoice more than 100 times its typical ...

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was the CEO of South Florida's Trinity Health Care Services when it accepted more than $5 million in improper loans during the pandemic.

In last year’s edition of EnforceMintz, we predicted that 2024 would bring an increase in False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement activity related