Supporting Teachers in Florida
Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 11:20 a.m. EDT, March 13, 2013 Some students in Delray Beach aren’t just taking class assignments home on the weekend, they’re taking a free supply of food. A program called “Blessings in a Backpack” gives third-grade students at Village Academy backpacks filled with easy-to-make meals and foods. It’s coordinated by Delray [...]
MIAMI— Last year Heat coach Erik Spoelstra had no problem discussing what he termed the team’s “maintenance program.” This year, it’s a bit different. Spoelstra said he had no plans to rest players the second half of the season because it’s too early to even think about it. The decision to sit players at various [...]
Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 5:10 p.m. EST, January 9, 2013 Interested in designing a solar race car? Or working in the Everglades or the environment? At South Plantation High School students leaning toward the study of environmental science and technology can apply for the college-preparatory Environmental Science and Everglades Restoration Magnet program. The all-county program [...]
By Marc Freeman July 13, 2012 11:07 AM Palm Beach Virtual School, a K-12 public school, needs students. Administrators invite families to come out to a “round-up” event to register for full-time virtual education for the 2012-2013 school year. The event will be held July 19 at The Safe Schools Institute next to Don Estridge [...]
By Georgia East June 5, 2012 06:40 PM Educators with the Broward Teachers Union will launch a program on Wednesday that will give 2,200 free brand new books to students at three elementary schools. The free books will be given to students at North Fork Elementary, Rock Island Elementary and Sunland Park Elementary, all in [...]
South Florida students and teachers recently scored prizes in a football-themed program called Publix’s Reading for Touchdowns. In the four-week contest, sponsored by the Sun Sentinel’s News in Education program and Publix Super Markets, thousands of fourth, fifth, and sixth graders earned “yards” for time spent reading at home and at school, ultimately earning touchdowns. [...]
By Anna Beach September 26, 2011 06:37 PM Running a high school football program is an expensive proposition.It ran Atlantic Community High into a $ 40,000 deficit. But the freshman, junior varsity and varsity football teams at the Delray Beach school are tackling the debt by taking to the streets.Every Saturday morning.To pressure clean the [...]
Some members of Congress are among those upset that a controversial French rail company is funding a Holocaust education program in Florida. Florida Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio and 11 House members have written a letter to Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson questioning why his department accepted an $ 80,000 grant from SNCF, the [...]
by: Ira Winderman July 6th, 2011 | 4:54 PM That citation former Heat forward Michael Beasley received last week for possession of marijuana? Strictly a legal issue, nothing more. An NBA spokesman confirmed Wednesday to the Sun Sentinel what logic would have dictated anyway: In the void of an NBA collective-bargaining agreement, there is no [...]
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