COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Many students, not enough room at South Florida community colleges
Demand is soaring at Miami-Dade and Broward community colleges, but the cash-strapped schools can't add enough classes.
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Students at Gulliver Prep in Pinecrest are developing ways to provide clean drinking water to storm-ravaged Haiti.
Demand is soaring at Miami-Dade and Broward community colleges, but the cash-strapped schools can't add enough classes.
Four North Miami teens will represent the United States in a global meeting to discuss world problems such as climate change and a sinking economy in Italy.
Some laid-off Broward teachers can expect job offers from the school district this week, mere days after losing their old positions.
Four tenured FAU faculty members are fighting their layoffs, saying their union contract does not allow that.
FAU President Frank Brogan may apply to become chancellor of the state university system.
Some FIU students are upset about the university's decision to rename its main campus for its departing president.
Citing a tough budget year that has included layoffs and cuts to academic programs, FIU plans to eliminate its successful cheerleading team.
Experts say teachers unions will have to get creative in negotiating a contract for the upcoming school year.
Seven South Florida schools will have to make major improvements this school year under a federal mandate.
Experts say the Miami-Dade teachers' union will have to 'get creative' in negotiating a contract for the upcoming school year.
The communities of at least two Broward high schools have pulled together to support teachers and sports coaches laid off by the district.
Broward School Board members will make the layoffs of nearly 400 teachers official at a meeting Tuesday, though they hope to rehire as many as possible.
Dissecting cats in the classroom: Is it a hands-on learning experience or an archaic tradition that teaches disregard for life?
Dads are joining the PTA, visiting classrooms and attending parent- teacher conferences in record numbers.
Three years ago, Mike Ryan was jetting across the country, trying lucrative pharmaceutical and product liability lawsuits that reaped more than $25 million in verdicts for his clients.
They did it. Miami Central Senior High, the recipient of five straight Fs, improved its grade to a D, propelling it off the state list of failing schools.
Two Miami-Dade schools, including one facing possible closure, accomplished one of this year's most remarkable academic feats: They bounced from an F to an A in just one year.
After all the preparation, test-taking and months of finger-crossing, it was time to break out the bubbly -- grape juice, of course -- at Larkdale Elementary Thursday morning.
To help high school juniors and seniors who have repeatedly failed the FCAT, the Broward school district on Tuesday hired the Princeton Review to tutor them on a different test: the ACT college entrance exam.