Education

Glen Nichol, Alachua County Teacher of the Year for 2012, has agreed to a deferred prosecution agreement following a sworn complaint for inappropriately touching at least one of his students at Lawton Chiles Elementary School.

Changes to the requirements for Bright Futures scholarship dispersion will affect minority students starting July 1, 2014.

A center in Bradford County is offering parenting classes available for high school and middle school students.

WUFT visited Millhopper Montessori School to see how children in the Gainesville area celebrated International Children's Book Day.

While April is Autism Awareness Month, Regina Currens of Alachua County Public Schools works to help local autistic children year-round.

In addition to the multimillion dollar changes Gov. Rick Scott has proposed to reform the state education system, the Florida Senate Committee on Education recently approved Senate Bill 980, which seeks to link teachers' evaluations to the students they teach.

The University of Florida's Collegiate Veterans Success Center will open April 2 with an open house and resource fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The space will be a spot for student veterans to hang out, study and support each other.

University of Florida Associate Professor Sevan Terzian's book, Science Education and Citizenship: Fairs, Clubs and Talent Searches for American Youth, 1918-1958, is now available.

The University of Florida Board of Trustees voted unanimously Friday morning to approve a plan that requires incoming students to show proof of health insurance. Students who apply for the fall 2014 semester will be required to have health insurance for enrollment, though students who enter UF before fall 2014 will be grandfathered into current requirements, which do not include health insurance.

Samuel Patterson Stafford, a judicial hearing officer, taught a free class on child custody issues as a part of the Law in the Library series at the High Springs Library branch on March 15.