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• Palm Beach County School District loses prestigious honor

  No longer can the Palm Beach County School District claim to be among the best in the state.

  Education Commissioner Eric Smith on Tuesday delivered the long-expected bad news that the system was not among 13 districts in Florida named “Academically High Performing School Districts.”

  The honor is extended [...]

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• Broward school administrators to take furlough days

  Broward Schools Superintendent Jim Notter announced Wednesday that 871 administrators will take furlough days next year in an effort to close a $144 million budget shortfall.

  Furloughs will save the district $4.5 million. The unpaid days amount to a 4 percent to 6 percent pay cut per affected employee, district officials [...]

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• Gov. Scott 'guarantees' no hurricane in Naples

  Hurricane Charley brushed Naples in 2004
  
  Rick Scott took a moment from his presentation at the Governor's Hurricane Conference at the Broward Convention Center Wednesday to praise four students from Pembroke Pines Charter High School for winning a public service announcement contest sponsored by the state's division of [...]
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• High school principal threatened lesbian couple with suspension for holding hands

  The Broward County School District plans to investigate an incident earlier this month in which a high school principal reportedly threatened a lesbian couple with suspension for holding hands on campus and then outed one of the girls to her parents.

  The girl hadn’t told her parents that she was gay. [...]

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• High school principal threatened two girls with suspension for holding hands

  The Broward County School District plans to investigate an incident earlier this month in which a high school principal reportedly threatened two girls with suspension for holding hands on campus and then informed one of the girls’ parents.

  The girl hadn't told her parents that she was gay, said Michael' [...]

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