The feds want to recruit 10,000 teachers in science, technology, engineering and math over the next two years. From the US DOE: U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan today launched a national teacher recruitment campaign during a live MSNBC broadcast as part of the NBC Education Summit in New York. The campaign features a new web [...]
WELLINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL A fall boutique show takes place 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 9 at the school, 1000 Wellington Trace. More than 40 local vendors are expected to participate. Additional vendor space is available. Call (561) 793-1017, Ext. 2470 for information. ST. DAVID’S-IN-THE PINES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL The junior garden club, God’s Little Gardeners, is dedicating [...]
Conservative activists across the cyber world are rallying behind a Palm Beach State College student whose Young Americans for Freedom organization was booted out of a campus club event last week. The group’s Florida chapter posted a video on its website showing a police officer asking PBSC student Christina Beattie to remove her table at [...]
Sam Dillon In many of the nation’s middle schools, black boys were nearly three times as likely to be suspended as white boys, according to a new study, which also found that black girls were suspended at four times the rate of white girls. School authorities also suspended Hispanic and American Indian middle school students [...]
TALLAHASSEE — A teachers union lawyer told a circuit judge Wednesday that a proposed class-size amendment should be thrown off the Nov. 2 ballot for the same reason that the state Supreme Court recently struck three other amendments — because the ballot language is misleading about its purpose. In this case, Florida Education Association attorney [...]
Akilah Johnson After people meet in the real world, their next step is often a visit to the virtual one, where they’ll make a “friend” request on Facebook or MySpace. But that can create a dilemma for teachers who get such requests from students, especially in Broward and Palm Beach counties, which have no written [...]