Mar 8, 2017 | News, Research and Policy
Florida colleges occupied four of the top 15 spots in a national ranking of public institutions that granted the most degrees during the 2014-15 school year. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently analyzed U.S. Department of Education data on the number of...
Mar 6, 2017 | Initiatives, Research and Policy
Less than a month is left in the Florida FAFSA Challenge! Which schools will win? Check out the leaderboard below or view data for all schools by clicking the FAFSA Finish Line dashboard image below. There’s still plenty of time for students to complete the...
Feb 28, 2017 | Initiatives, News, Research and Policy
Florida has risen to the challenge of helping its high school seniors gain access to financial aid – and making higher education more attainable and affordable. The Florida FAFSA Challenge – an initiative of the Florida College Access Network (Florida CAN) – strives...
Feb 17, 2017 | Initiatives, Research and Policy
Florida CAN has released 2016-17 FAFSA completion rates on its new and improved FAFSA Finish Line data dashboard. The dashboard includes data for over 600 public schools in Florida and allows users to view school, district and state-level FAFSA completion rates using...
Feb 1, 2017 | News, Research and Policy
Florida is projected to add 6 million more residents and require 2 million more jobs by 2030. Will our schools, colleges and students be prepared? To help stimulate strategic thinking around these questions and the state’s future, the Florida Chamber Foundation...
Dec 22, 2016 | News, Research and Policy
Continuing the decade-long trend, Florida’s graduation rate has risen again — this year by 2.8%. The state graduation rate is now 80.7% for the 2015-16 cohort, an outcome that Commissioner of Education Pam Stewart attributes to increased accountability and the...
