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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• College costs

  Biden in Florida: Keep tuition low

  The vice president spoke at Florida State University, pushing the president’s college affordability plan.

• 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.