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The article focuses on the promotion of career and technical education at Charlotte County Public Schools in Florida. CTE enrolment increases due to the highly orchestrated marketing and fierce conversations to the community by a team of teachers. The marketing package reaches the entire school, families and local businesses.

The article discusses the educational partnerships formed between charter schools and public school districts in Florida. Topics discussed include a grant program initiated by Florida education officials to increase collaboration with U.S. national charter school franchises, examples of similar partnerships in other states involving the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter school, and the sharing of resources and best practices between charters and local schools.

The article reports that the Rasmussen College in Fort Myers, Florida has announced its partnership with the Foundation for Lee County Public School's Academy of Teachers. It notes the aim of the partnership to develop and host a 20-week Adobe software training sessions of designing and multimedia for secondary school teachers in Lee County. The author further highlights the technology and design degrees offered by Rasmussen College which include Cyber Security, and Computer Science.

The article discusses the ways in which U.S. school districts can build partnerships with local businesses to benefit both parties. The author looks at the impact of state budget cuts on school district finance in 2011 and 2010, as well as Florida's Manatee County Public School district with comments by School Board Chairman Harry Kinnan about the impact of budget cuts and the role of business partnerships. Topics include the development of a web-based application to facilitate business-school partnerships in Manatee County, Florida, by Dawn Allen, the district's community involvement coordinator, as well as the implementation of business internships with students in Virginia's Newport News Public Schools.

The article focuses on the partnership of the Hillsborough County Public Schools with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Tampa, Florida. It mentions superintendent of the school district Mary Ellen Elia who announced that the district's goal is to augment student achievement, increase graduation rates, and ensure college and career readiness. It adds that the Gates Foundation has committed 100 million dollars for seven years to aid the district's efforts to strengthen teacher effectiveness. Moreover, it outlines the five core stragetic initiatives of the Gates Foundation.

The article discusses Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools' two-year project to measure teacher effectiveness. The school system has used grant money from two programs, the Empowering Effective Teaching (EET) program and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) program, in order to implement a system to evaluate teachers. The project takes data from students, teachers, and administrators to retain effective teachers and improve professional development.

Focuses on the educational and business partnerships developed by Daytona Beach Community College's Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Florida. Significance of the educational and business partnerships according to executive director Stan Sidor; Services provided by businesses to students; List of national corporations which have donated equipment to ATC.

Reports on a collaborative program launched by the State Library and Archives of Florida and Thomson Gale for K-12 schools and public libraries damaged by hurricanes in 2004.

Reports on the partnership of the U.S. Distance Learning Association (USDLA) with Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida which deals with the launch of the Distance Learning Leaders certificate program for institutional managers in 2004. Information on the certificate program; Target candidates; Background on USDLA.

The article reports on the partnership between Florida International University and Florida's Afro-American-interest Miami weekly South Florida Times called the Liberty City Link project. The project entails sending an entire reporting class to cover Liberty City, an Afro-American neighborhood in Miami, Florida, which is popularly known for the riots that followed a non-guilty verdict in a police shooting. South Florida Times owner and publisher Robert Beatty said that the partnership provides young journalists an exposure to real life journalism.