Supporting Teachers in Florida
MIAMI — — Erik Spoelstra has said it several times throughout the second half of the NBA and college basketball seasons. He thinks there is a cool factor to the Miami Heat and University of Miami Hurricanes being at or near the top of their respective sports. What would make it even better is if [...]
So do charter schools outperform traditional schools in Florida? The state says yes. The Florida Department of Education released a report saying that charter school students outperform students at traditional schools in math, science and reading, according to results from end-of-course exams and the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. So do you believe this report? Or [...]
Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 6:16 p.m. EST, January 29, 2013 A recent report by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools found Florida is among the top of the list for states that have strong charter laws friendly to charter school growth. Florida ranked fifth behind Minnesota who ranked first. Meanwhile, Mississippi remained last. “The [...]
By Scott Travis Sun Sentinel 3:08 p.m. EST, December 14, 2012 So what are some our local school district officials saying about the massacre in Connecticut. Like the rest of us, they are shocked and devastated and thinking about school security. “Today’s incident reminds us of how important our public schools are and how precious [...]
MIAMI— If only Dwyane Wade could go left. Instead, with pen in right hand, the Heat guard has signed upwards of 2,400 copies of his book, “A Father First: How my life became bigger than basketball,” over the past three days during three South Florida appearances, a tour that ended with a Sunday [...]
By Marc Freeman July 5, 2012 12:44 PM Here’s a guest entry from Leslie Postal of the Orlando Sentinel: We don’t know when Florida’s first batch of A-to-F school grades will be released – it will likely be soon, however –but Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson doesn’t want parents to be alarmed, if their children’s schools [...]
By Marc Freeman June 27, 2012 12:59 PM Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson today heaped praise on the 69 state high schools that were recently honored in Newsweek magazine’s survey called “America’s Best High Schools 2012.” Nineteen high schools in Palm Beach and Broward counties appear in the rankings of 1,000 leading public high schools. [...]
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.— Thursday’s NCAA Tournament big winners? From a Miami Heat perspective, it would be power forward Udonis Haslem and the Florida treasury. As for Heat guard Dwyane Wade? Well, Marquette’s 68-58 loss to Florida on Thursday night will leave him driven to distraction for the next year. In a show of support for [...]
South Florida gets its first glimpse at basketball sensation Jeremy Lin on Thursday when his New York Knicks visit the Miami Heat. But the Linsanity has been building for days. The mass fervor for New York Knicks point guard has spiked ticket prices, caused a run on Lin jerseys and flooded Miami Heat offices with [...]
By Cara Fitzpatrick February 9, 2012 11:57 AM From my colleague Leslie Postal at the Orlando Sentinel: Florida has been granted a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law, which will free it from the constraints of complicated school accountability rules and allow it to use its school grading system as the sole [...]
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