The president of a for-profit Central Florida nursing school pleaded last month with members of a state board for leniency after graduates of his program performed poorly on the national nurse ...

Alarmed by a growing shortage of nurses, Florida lawmakers in 2009 eased regulations on the schools tasked with training them, inviting new institutions to enter the market. The results were swift: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nursing-school scandal erupted in 2023 after the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Florida filed the first batch of indictments.

With Florida A&M University’s licensure exam pass rates remaining lower than benchmarks and goals, Florida Board of Governors Vice Chair Alan Levine says he is ready to get rid of the programs if ...

Florida has long been known as the land of schemes and scams — a place where swindlers eager to separate citizens from their hard-earned money could peddle everything from worthless swampland to ...

The for-profit Brilliant Academy Health Center, on Conway Road in Orlando, Florida, won state approval and opened in 2018. It charges aspiring nurses $27,000 annually. The state has placed it on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Alarmed by a growing shortage of nurses, Florida lawmakers in 2009 eased regulations on the schools tasked with training them, inviting new institutions to ...