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• Miami-Dade Schools

  Student, 18, charged in Barbara Goleman Senior High stabbing

  Frank Oreste Acosta told police that he felt bullied by the other student and didn’t think the small knife he used to stab him was a weapon.

• 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

  Bill to make USF Polytechnic state’s 12th university draws debate

  Lawmakers are crafting legislation to split the Lakeland campus of the University of South Florida into the state’s 12th university, but at least one member of the Board of Governors is raising questions about the proposal.
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  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.

• 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.

• 2012 Florida Legislature

  Charter schools seek construction money

  Florida school districts are fighting a bill that would require them to share construction dollars with charter schools.
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  BROWARD SCHOOLS

  Blanche Ely teacher accused of calling Haitian-American student ‘little chocolate boy’

  After calling a Haitian-American student ‘little chocolate boy’ and ‘chocolate nobody wanted,’ a reading teacher could face suspension without pay.
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  MIAMI-DADE SCHOOLS

  Carol City prekindergarten teacher is Miami-Dade’s Teacher of the Year

  The Miami-Dade school district recognized top teachers at a ceremony on Friday.

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  The Environment

  Teens debate clean-water bill in competition at Fairchild Garden

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  MAST students chat up Space Station commander

  Students from MAST Academy made a long-distance call Thursday, chatting with an astronaut in charge of the International Space Station, which currently orbits the Earth.

• North Miami teacher called to principal’s office after call from the mayor

  A North Miami science teacher who spoke at a public meeting with her children is incensed after the city’s mayor called her principal to complain.
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  North Miami

  State Supreme Court justice teaches kids about law

  A Florida Supreme Court justice visited with students from a North Miami high school and taught them about the Constitution and criminal justice.

• Legislature 2012 | School Prayer

  Senate approves school prayer bill

  The Senate OK’d a bill that would allow students to deliver “inspirational messages” at public school assemblies.

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