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Teen Punished By School After Reporting Student Bullying Of Special Needs Girl

Posted 05.29.2012

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Stormy Rich, an 18-year-old Florida student, says she was punished after reporting bullying of a special needs student on a school bus, and standing u...

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FCAT Scores Fall For Some As State Drops Standards For More Passing Grades

The Huffington Post | Gregory Kristof | Posted 05.24.2012

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The portion of Florida third graders who could be held back jumped to 18 percent this year as a result of low scores on the state's rigorous new stand...

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How Broward Gets A 'D'

Posted 05.24.2012

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About half of Florida’s school districts -- including Broward County's -- mislead parents into thinking that providing a social security number for ...

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New Video Game-Themed High School Program May Be A Hard Sell

Posted 04.30.2012

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Never mind video games getting in the way of homework or learning time. At one Florida school, video games are homework. A new magnet program at M...

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Struggle Over How To Evaluate Special Ed Teachers

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 04.24.2012

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MIAMI -- Since the first day of class this school year, Bev Campbell has been teaching her students how to say their names. Some of the children in h...

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Florida Rejects Bill To Give Parents More Power Over Schools

Reuters | Posted 05.09.2012

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By Michael Peltier TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 9 (Reuters) - Florida's state Senate narrowly killed a bill on Friday that would have allo...

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Rise In Homeless Students Stifles Florida Town

AP | By CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 04.30.2012

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CLERMONT, Fla. -- Zach Montgomery's dad plugs in the electric skillet and opens the cardboard box containing tonight's dinner. The liquid from the ca...

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Public Charter School's Link To Scientology Sparks Controversy

Posted 04.29.2012

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A public charter school in Clearwater, Fla. is being accused of using methods of Scientology in educating students. An in-depth report by the Tampa...

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Santaluces High School On Alert After Teens Post Racist Video

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.23.2012

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On the heels of a shocking and racist YouTube post by two teens in Gainesville, Fla., an uncannily similar video has surfaced in the state that includ...

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Florida Offers Look At Problems With No Child Left Behind

AP | By CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 02.10.2012

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MIAMI -- By almost any measure, Norma Butler Bossard Elementary is a top performing school in Miami: It has consistently been rated an `A' by the stat...

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Florida Bills Would Allow Parents To Fire Teachers, Require Teachers To Grade Parents

Posted 03.31.2012

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Two bills in the Florida legislature would give parents overarching power to demand sweeping changes at low-performing schools. Under the first par...

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States Backtracked On Reform Commitments, Face Threats To Federal Funds

AP | By CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 01.10.2012

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MIAMI -- Several states that won a slice of the U.S. Department of Education's $4.3 billion Race to the Top competition have had to delay plans to imp...

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Florida Charter Schools Failing Disabled Students

NPR | John O'Connor and Sarah Gonzalez | Posted 02.14.2012

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Tres Whitlock is stuck in a public school where he feels ignored. He wants out. The 17-year-old would-be video game designer researched his options...

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State Lawmaker Proposes Axing Gym Class Requirement

Posted 12.12.2011

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Florida lawmakers are considering a bill to eliminate a requirement that the state's 6th through 8th graders must take one semester of physical educat...

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School Board Member Who Took State High School Exam: Tests Lack Accountability

Posted 12.08.2011

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To take state standardized exams to the test, a Florida school board member sat down to take a version of the state's high-stakes 10th grade math and ...

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Poor, Homeless Students Living Out Of Cars As Childhood Poverty Climbs

Posted 01.29.2012

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More than 16 million children now live in poverty in the United States, the highest number since 1962. In all, 19.8 percent of school children were l...

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Teach For America Faces Slew Of Questions, Criticism, Amid Big Expansion

AP | By CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 01.27.2012

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MIAMI -- In a distressed neighborhood north of Miami's gleaming downtown, a group of enthusiastic but inexperienced instructors from Teach for America...

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Mother Files Suit Against School District, Alleges Bullying Drove Daughter To Attempt Suicide

Posted 01.24.2012

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A mother in Coral Springs, Fla. is filing a lawsuit against her school district after she says bullying led her daughter to the brink of suicide. B...

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Replacement Presents Donated To Children Who Accidentally Received Nude Photos

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.11.2012

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When he heard about the students at Jay Elementary School in Santa Rosa County, Fla. who accidentally received slap bracelets with nude photos beneath...

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Facing Low Salaries, Teachers Take To Moonlighting

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 01.11.2012

MIAMI — By day, Wade Brosz teaches American history at an A-rated Florida middle school. By night, he is a personal trainer at 24 Hour Fitness. ...

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Complex New Florida Teacher Evaluations Tied To Student Test Scores

| Laura Isensee and Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 01.07.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. At Coral Reef Senior High, calculus teacher Orlando Sarduy understands complicated formu...

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Schools Letting In Advertisers To Help Cover Budget Cuts

Posted 12.17.2011

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The interiors of 16 schools in Pennsylvania's Bucks County Pennsbury School District will be decorated a bit differently this year: They're the new ho...

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Mother Banned From School And Bus Stop For Confronting Son's Bullies

Posted 11.26.2011

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A Minnesota mother has been banned from her child's school and bus stop for defending her son against bullies, WCCO-TV reports. After her 10-year-...

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A Decade Later, Students With Bush On 9/11 Remember The Day

AP | MITCH STACY | Posted 11.07.2011

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SARASOTA, Fla. — The 16 children who shared modern America's darkest moment with President George W. Bush are high school seniors now – fo...

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Suspended Teacher Of The Year 'Almost Threw Up' At News Of Gay Marriage

Posted 10.19.2011

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A Florida high school's "Teacher of the Year" has been suspended for an anti-gay post he wrote on his Facebook page last month. Jerry Buell, a hist...

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