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Education Issues

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    51. The FCAT at P.S. 561

    We're counting down to New Times' Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top hundred favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments or visit our Facebook page.Everyone loves a hot dog, but not all hot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Mavericks Assistant Principal Was Accused, and Cleared, of Kissing Former Student at Denny's

    ​On April 23, 2011, months before she was hired as assistant principal at the Mavericks High charter school in Palm Springs, Tisa Brandon was videotaped hanging out with teenagers at Denny's in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. At the time, Brandon was dean of Liberty High School in Kissimmee. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Frank Biden: "We're Not Profiting From Our Schools"

    ​Responding to this week's cover story about the charter school chain he runs, Frank Biden continues to insist Mavericks in Education Florida is not profiting from its schools. He says it's just the school buildings that bring in the dough."We're not profiting from our schools. Anybody with half a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 15, 2011

    Buses and Booze versus Crohn’s and Colitis

    ​Responding to this week's cover story about the charter school chain he runs, Frank Biden continues to insist Mavericks in Education Florida is not profiting from its schools. He says it's just the school buildings that bring in the dough."We're not profiting from our schools. Anybody with half a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Records Show Miami Mavericks High Teachers Paid Peanuts, Less Than $5K a Year

    ​State records show that teachers at two Mavericks High public charter schools in Miami-Dade County earned less than $5,000 a year in 2010 and that many did not receive benefits.According to records submitted to the Florida Department of Education, 14 teachers at the Homestead campus of Mavericks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Plans for Land Near Hollywood's Young Circle Now in Disarray; Maybe That's a Good Thing?

    Flickr: apricocoYoung Circle in Hollywood; the WSG project was to wrap around the Home tower, the tallest building on the right.​It appears that nobody in Hollywood government has a clear idea of where the city stands in its efforts to improve a big piece of property at the heart of downtown.At th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    New Study: Many Florida Children Left Behind

    Flickr.com The Hamilton, Ohio school where George W. Bush signed "No Child Left Behind" in 2001 has a statue to commemorate the glorious day. A new report says there is a more than 50% gap in reading proficiency between Black and White teenagers in America, and that only 57% of "historicall ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2009

    Spell, Check

    Flickr.com The Hamilton, Ohio school where George W. Bush signed "No Child Left Behind" in 2001 has a statue to commemorate the glorious day. A new report says there is a more than 50% gap in reading proficiency between Black and White teenagers in America, and that only 57% of "historicall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    LOLZ! ROFL! ACLU! Lawsuit Defends Student's Bitchy Facebook Page

    Hey kids, good news! If you want to create a Facebook page that declares some teacher "the worst teacher in, like, the world," and then you are suspended for that, the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida will sue the damn school to protect your First Amendment rights, as ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 11, 2007

    It’s All About the Hamiltons

    Hey kids, good news! If you want to create a Facebook page that declares some teacher "the worst teacher in, like, the world," and then you are suspended for that, the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida will sue the damn school to protect your First Amendment rights, as ... More >>

  • News

    April 27, 2006

    Bangin' in L-Dub

    A half mile from Lake Worth's trendy eateries, a war is under way. With guns and cyber-graffiti.

  • Calendar

    April 20, 2006

    Wanna Take It Inside?

    A half mile from Lake Worth's trendy eateries, a war is under way. With guns and cyber-graffiti.

  • Culture

    August 18, 2005

    What Really Happens in the Ladies Room

    If We Are Women is an entertaining culture-clash coffee klatch for everybody. Honest.

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Culture Wars

    Follow this leader and your kids will obey their masters and join lockstep with God. Or else.

  • Calendar

    April 6, 2000

    Lighting the Way to Literacy

    BookFest

  • News

    March 25, 1999

    Letters

    BookFest

  • News

    April 16, 1998

    Biting Back

    A K-9 took a huge chunk out of Rusty Samarco's leg. The crippling bite was worse than the crime.

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