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Parents picket outside Park Ridge Elementary (Kimberly Foster / March 15, 2013) Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 12:28 p.m. EDT, March 15, 2013 A small group of parents staged a picket outside Park Ridge Elementary school in Deerfield Beach Friday to protest bullying and intimidation tactics they claim are being used by school administrators. “The way [...]
By Scott Travis Sun Sentinel 3:48 p.m. EDT, March 11, 2013 Washington Collado is being forced out as principal of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to a letter from parent groups and the Parkland mayor. Stoneman Douglas was the site of a controversy involving a cheerleading coach, who was fired after complaints of bullying, [...]
Broward parents protest outside school board meeting Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 3:37 p.m. EST, March 5, 2013 Holding signs and chanting “save our schools,” a dozen parents gathered outside the Broward school board building Tuesday to protest the district’s proposal to shutter two special needs schools at the end of the year – Wingate Oaks [...]
Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 3:50 p.m. EST, February 18, 2013 Parents at two special needs centers in Broward county are determined to convince the district to keep their schools open. Earlier this month, the district announced Sunset School and Wingate Oaks in Fort Lauderdale will shutter at the end of the school year due to [...]
The Florida Department of Education may have said yes to Tony Bennett as their new commissioner of education, but parents and teachers in the community are pushing back with a resounding no. “We’re in big trouble,” said Lisa Goldman, founder of Testing is Not Teaching, a Palm Beach County school group. Bennett, who lost his [...]
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 Cara Fitzpatrick March 15, 2012 03:53 PM My colleague, Juan Ortega, had this story about the influence of the new movie, Project X, on teenagers: “MIRAMAR— An 18-year-old is facing criminal charges and a lawsuit threat after authorities say he vandalized an unoccupied home, then posted a YouTube video promising to host the type [...]
Florida residents who are U.S. citizens would qualify for in-state tuition, regardless of their parents immigration status, under a bill filed Friday by a state lawmaker. The bill comes two days after five students, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, sued the state claiming they were unfairly required to pay out-of-state tuition at Florida [...]
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