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School maintenance and repair database

Crumbling Schools.

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SOURCES: Miami-Dade and Broward school districts

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Teachers, students, school staff and parents: How is the repair backlog affecting life at your school?

In My Opinion

College loans are next debt crisis

Marlins Park, financed by bonds that will take four decades and $2.4 billion to pay off, makes a perfect setting for commencement exercises. Vice President Joe Biden, when he addresses a happy throng of graduates from Cypress Bay High School in that fancy new baseball stadium on June 4, will be looking out at the unwitting perpetrators of the next great debt crisis. 1338070792
Education

FCAT: Thousands of third-graders at risk of being held back

Statewide, 56 percent of third-graders passed the reading and 58 percent passed the math, according to results released on Thursday.
Merit pay gets second OK from teachers

Miami-Dade teachers took a second vote -- this time on paper -- on the contract change Tuesday, after a state commission found previous electronic voting violated labor rules.