More than 150 volunteers from various Starbucks stores throughout Miami-Dade and Broward counties — and from City Year Miami, which offers tutoring and mentoring to underserved youths — spent Saturday engaged in beautification efforts at Miami Norland Senior High in Miami Gardens. The volunteers painted murals, built benches and landscaped the courtyard at the school.
Dr. Jill Biden, wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, will be speaking at the Broward College graduation commencement ceremony Friday at 3 p.m.
The city has canceled a Cinco de Mayo dinner celebration that had been planned to benefit the Pembroke Pines Charter School System.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools will debut its first video game-themed magnet this fall. But the school may be a hard sell for parents.
A task force determined that far more students had been properly vaccinated than previously thought, the result of confusion by healthcare providers.
So is it a public school teacher now shilling for Gov. Rick Scott in his latest television ad? Or is it an actor?
Students advised to keep fueling their educational tanks as they venture on.
Gov. Rick Scott vetoed a bill that would have allowed the University of Florida and Florida State University to increase tuition by virtually unlimited amounts.
Miami-Dade schools chief Alberto Carvalho sidestepped a question last week about his political ambitions.
Established charter schools are able to tap into grants meant to help start-ups by nesting schools within schools. Sometimes the two schools share everything, from staffers to teachers to buildings.
Educators from China and a Miami private school say they want their elementary and middle school students to have a global education from an early age.
St. Thomas University’s alumni and community leaders threw a big party to celebrate its 50 years as a Catholic university.
In an about-face, the school district says it will not lay off the school-based employees or immediately consolidate their work at a central location.
The parents at a South Miami Heights charter school want it to remain open — despite debt, foreclosure and accusations that administrators allowed boozy, late-night parties in the school cafeteria.
Miramar High’s Alvin Davis was honored as a finalist for National Teacher of the Year, with a teacher from California winning the award.
Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie is making big changes to the district’s administration, cutting some top jobs while adding or renaming others.
Educators and experts are concerned that staggering test groups over several days could make it easier for students to cheat on FCATs.
One of Miami-Dade’s assistant school superintendents, Nikolai Vitti, is on the preliminary list of candidates to lead another school district, in Duval County.
The Miami-Dade school board has signed the deal, and the town could do likewise as soon as Tuesday.
The new schedule will save money and allow the hiring of new teachers, the school superintendent says. The controversial plan does not need to be negotiated with the teachers’ union.
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