Alachua County Public Schools

Monica Benson, a special education teacher at Sidney Lanier Center, was named the 2025 Alachua County Teacher of the Year on Thursday.

The School Board of Alachua County and union representatives for public school teachers will resume salary negotiations after teachers rejected the board’s pay increase offer.

The University of Florida will cancel classes from midnight Tuesday until 12:30 p.m. Wednesday ahead of expected “wintery conditions and the possibility of icy roads.”

Ethics complaints have been filed against Newberry Mayor Jordan Marlowe and city commissioner Rick Coleman.

Parents and teachers in Newberry are rallying for the conversion of their city's public schools to public charter schools.

Alachua County public schools are eliminating courtesy bus routes amid a shortage of drivers and change in demand.

An Alachua County elementary school teacher was arrested early Sunday morning on charges of driving under the influence, possession of bath salts and resisting arrest without violence.

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The Alachua County school district reversed itself and was putting back into a high school's library an LGBTQ book that had been challenged under Florida…