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  Pinecrest

  Pinecrest Gardens Youth Arts Festival seeks students

  Pinecrest Gardens’ second annual Big Gig is accepting applications from children who are interested in free mentorship and training in theater, dance, music and visual arts. 1328892720

• 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

  Board of governors at odds over making 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, but the Board of Governors is not happy.

• 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.