JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville man is set to be executed Tuesday, but his time at an infamous state-run reform school as a child has some calling for mercy. Michael Bell was convicted of the 1993 ...
The legacy of north Florida's infamous Dozier school continues even after its doors closed for the last time in 2011. Executed killer Michael Bell, for instance, was put to death July 15 at the ...
Eight years before a jury sentenced him to death for two murders and he confessed to three more, Michael Bell spent time at a Florida reform school so violent that the state later apologized for the ...
More than a hundred graduates gathered on Thursday in Pinellas County to celebrate one shared achievement — a high school diploma. For one graduate, walking across a stage in a cap and gown has been a ...
Mike Petrilli, the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, recently launched a new Substack, SCHOOLED, that he hopes might help foster common ground on issues like accountability, charter ...
Researchers say they have exhumed the remains of 55 people at Florida's Dozier School for Boys, a notorious reform school that closed in 2011. The total found by University of South Florida ...
Area administrators are urging state lawmakers to include meaningful cyber education reform in the budget, including a funding formula that reflects the actual costs of online education.