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• FAU medical school sees surge in applications

  If student interest is any indication, Florida Atlantic University’s new medical school won’t suffer a sophomore slump.

  FAU’s College of Medicine opened on FAU’s Boca Raton campus this August, and received an impressive 1,500 applications for 64 slots. This year, applications have doubled to nearly 3,000 for the same number of [...]

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• Finalists named for Broward's "new" Caliber Award

  The Broward School District has debuted a new award for employees. Well, really, it's an old award with a new name.

  Remember Teacher of the Year? Now it's the Caliber Award.

  Marsy Smith, a spokeswoman for the district, said the new-old award is to create a "brand." It also will [...]

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• Broward School Board, keep your tweets, texts

  My colleague, Andy Reid, wrote a story a week ago saying that government officials have to keep records of all social media used in their public position.

  That means tweets, Facebook status updates, text messages.

  On Tuesday, the Broward School Board is going to talk about updating their technology usage [...]

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