Leaders at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee are criticizing a plan to merge the school with New College of ...

TALLAHASSEE — New College of Florida could take over the University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus under plans ...

Joe Gruters, a Sarasota Republican and longtime ally of the governor, publicly suggested combining New College with USF Sarasota-Manatee and the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art. The ...

A grassroots effort is working to stop the transfer of the management of the Ringling Museum in Sarasota from FSU to New ...

A plan for New College of Florida to potentially take over the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus could be finalized in the next few months.

A museum whose board dictates what its curators ... a nonprofit newsroom of the Community News Collaborative serving Sarasota, Manatee, and DeSoto counties. Learn more at suncoastsearchlight.org.

Manatee Springs State Park is a good bet ... mounds at Crystal River Archaeological State Park; there’s also a museum whose collection spans pottery to projectile points.

Other education initiatives and organizations in Hillsborough County are also well-funded in the proposed House budget.