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School Notes
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Miami-Dade and Broward accepting applications for Head Start program
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Families can check out digital classroom tools
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South Florida Ford and Lincoln dealers seek candidates for their Salute to Education scholarships
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Coral Reef chorus students chosen for All-State Chorus
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Swim-A-Thon raises $50,000 for Gulliver, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
STATE IMPACT FLORIDA
- Florida House Approves Budget
- Read The Federal Concerns About Florida's 'No Child' Alternative
- White House Gives Florida 'Green Light' On 'No Child' Waiver
SPECIAL REPORT
Floridas charter school movement has grown into $400-million-a-year powerhouse backed by real-estate developers and promoted by politicians, but with little oversight.
Miami-Dade Schools
Northwestern students learn dance, history in workshop
This week, students at Miami Northwestern Senior High are learning the choreography of Revelations in a workshop with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
MORE STORIES
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Florida, 9 states receive No Child Left Behind waiver
President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, The Associated Press has learned.
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2012 FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
Budget bill would make USF Polytechnic state’s 12th university
Lawmakers are crafting legislation to split the Lakeland campus of the University of South Florida into the state’s 12th university.
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In My Opinion
Paranoia is justified on charter-school bill
In their despair, people who care deeply about public education in Florida sometimes get a little carried away.
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BROWARD SCHOOLS
Broward School Board adopts plan to keep class sizes down
Multi-grade courses, co-teaching and larger numbers of students in electives are among the strategies the Broward County School Board approved to meet state class size requirements for next school year.
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2012 Florida Legislature
Bills to revamp high school sports spark debate
A pair of proposals would dramatically change the structure of high school sports in Florida.
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Student stabbed at Barbara Goleman High in Miami Lakes
It’s not clear what exactly started the fight or the students’ relationship. But there were some “aggravating circumstances” that suggest both have “some culpability,” according to the schools police chief.
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100 students get close-up view of multimedia newsroom at The Miami Herald
About 100 students from North Beach Elementary toured The Miami Herald Tuesday, looking over the newsroom, radio studios, pressroom and video studio.
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College costs
Biden in Florida: Keep tuition low
The vice president spoke at Florida State University, pushing the presidents college affordability plan.
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Hollywood
Cooperative Jewish School combines low tuition, small classes
Two mothers teamed up to open the school in Emerald Hills, which caps classes at 10 students drawn from the Jewish communities of South Broward and North Miami-Dade.
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