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• Union leaders hit the Hard Rock this weekend

  Looks like the Broward Teachers Union negotiations with the Broward School District are about to get more interesting. This weekend, the local teachers union will host Florida Education Association president Andy Ford and American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten to discuss “ways to bring the ongoing contract negotiations dispute with [...]
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• FCAT: Food matters

  You should not take the FCAT on an empty stomach, educators warn. So in preparation for Tuesday's exams, the Palm Beach County School District started an “Eating for FCAT Success” campaign. Posters and informational flyers have been distributed to the schools in order to encourage parents, teachers and others to provide healthy [...]
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• Friday round-up: Education news around Florida

  Bradenton Herald: With school districts around Florida facing budget cuts, the Manatee County superintendent held a town hall meeting with parents, staff members and others to field suggestions for possible cuts. Florida Times-Union: There's a gender gap at many colleges and universities, and Jacksonville's schools are following that [...]
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• Got water?

  UM’s School of Communication wants you to make a short-film on water and help save the world, or at least raise awareness to one of Mother Earth’s issues. Below is the information from the university about the World Water Day short film contest. Good Luck!

  We take it for granted and [...]

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• Election Day ca-ching for high school students

  Ah, the joys that come with the senior year of high school—senior photos, homecoming, yearbook, prom, grad night (Ca-ching, ca-ching, ca-ching, ca-ching). But students at Pembroke Pines Charter High School have found a way to offset some of the costs of senior year activities while earning the volunteer hours needed to [...]
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• FAU finalist: Better retention and graduation means more money

  One way for FAU to deal with its budget problems is to improve its graduation and retention rates, one of the presidential finalists said. Mary Jane Saunders, provost at Cleveland State University, said when students leave before graduation, it hurts them and the institution. FAU’s graduation has been below 40 percent [...]
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• Former Broward School Board member wants his seat back

  A former Broward School Board member is looking to get his old seat back. Don Samuels, who in 1998 lost his re-election bid to Stephanie Kraft after four terms on the School Board, filed papers Tuesday to run for the seat that Kraft is vacating. Samuels lives in Tamarac. He [...]
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• Happy (be-lated) Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

  We might be a day late saying happy birthday to the late, great Dr. Seuss (Sorry!), but the students and parents at David Posnack Hebrew Day School were right on time. Parents brought in books and blankets then settled in—with their children, of course—for a little Seussian [...]
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• Two of Lucille Greene's job evals are EXACTLY the same

  From Staff Writer, Megan O'Matz Something is odd about Lucille Greene’s job evaluations. The 2005-2006 performance appraisal for the Broward School District’s director of pupil transportation is EXACTLY the same as the 2006-2007 report, the latest one available. In the earlier school year, it was written: “Ms. Greene’s strong leadership' [...]
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• FAU presidential finalist supports stadium project

  Gary Miller works at a university that eliminated football back in the 1980s. Would that be an ominous sign for Florida Atlantic University’s stadium project or football if he got hired as president? He says no. Miller, who is provost of Wichita State University, is one of three finalists the Board of [...]
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