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• FAU Center for Autism hosts limited release movie

  Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Autism and Related Disabilities is hosting a screening of Wretches and Jabberers: 100 Cities, One Night for Autism on Thursday, May 12 in West Palm Beach.

  The staff of FAU’s CARD will introduce the film, which will be released in only 100 cities worldwide, and hold [...]

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• Rumors swirl about looming teacher layoffs

  UPDATE: A district spokeswoman said late Thursday night that there's no plan to tell employees on Friday about any prospective lay-offs. She said there's "nothing official or confirmed," and that the district is "still determining if the cuts are greater than anticipated."

  The Broward School Board is looking at $81 [...]

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• Miami Dade College hosts virtual open house

  

  
  Potential students with queries about Miami Dade College have an electronic alternative to the traditional open house.

  MDC’s virtual open house takes place 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 11. There’ll be information on college programs, admissions, financial aid and scholarships. Instructors, students and academic [...]

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• Archbishop McCarthy High delivers for Fleet Week

  

  
  So, what’s in the boxes that’s making these Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy high schoolers smile?

  
  
  It’s the 1,050 books and 300 DVDs that the Support Our Troops Club collected for their annual Fleet Week activity and delivered to sailors and Marines on [...]

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• FAU stadium receives $2 million donation

  The Schmidt family, already the largest donors to Florida Atlantic University’s academic programs, is now the largest donor to its new football stadium as well.

  Richard and Barbara Schmidt are giving $2 million through the Schmidt Family Foundation for the $70 million, 30,00-seat stadium project, which is scheduled [...]

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• FCAT writing: better scores but less proficient?

  There are two ways to look at this year’s FCAT writing scores.

  1) Student performance improved from than last year. Or
  2) Students are less proficient than last year.

  So how can these two seemingly contradictory statements both be true?

  Let’s examine fourth grade scores.

  Last year, students needed a [...]

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• Sex and slime at UM

  

  Sex, Drugs and Sea Slime.
  

  Not a beach party scene from Miami Vice but the title of the new book by marine scientist Ellen Prager.

  Prager will be at the University of Miami on Friday May 6 to discuss the often bizarre proclivities of the underwater protagonists of [...]

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• Teacher allegedly pushed, hit autistic students

  Broward Schools Superintendent Jim Notter has recommended an unpaid five-day suspension for a teacher at Lauderhill Paul Turner Elementary who allegedly hurt two of his students.

  The school board signed off on the punishment, which moves Dyke Stabler's case onto the next due process step. (Where he can give his defense.) [...]

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• How one school is handling bin Laden's death

  How do you talk to children about current events, particularly when it involves tough topics like war and violence? Parents grapple with this all the time. Teachers do too.

  With the announcement Sunday that Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces, Principal Carlton Campbell of Pines Middle School in Pembroke [...]

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