The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending about $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. ...more

November 1, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. ...more

October 26, 2009

Florida's undergraduate students will pay at least 6 percent more in tuition next fall, even though the state's university leaders would have them pay more. ...more

May 9, 2008

Wary of jeopardizing funding, the state's university oversight board today backed off its initial plan to raise tuition by 8 percent and adopted a smaller increase approved recently by the Legislature. ...more

May 8, 2008