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Charter and virtual schools need more oversight
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsFor my Broward print column today, I wrote about the dark side to the explosion of charter and virtual schools that's been encouraged by our choice-happy Legislature. There are now 84 charter schools operating in Broward (serving some 33,000 students),......Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Charter Schools, Palm Beach County
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Gloucester schools substitute teacher list has one supervisor
Who's on Team Gloucester?Supervisor Gregory Woodard is on the substitute teacher list for Gloucester County Public Schools, according to information from the school system. But Woodard has yet to work as a substitute teacher in Gloucester in the 2010-11 school year. Woodard is......Tags: Teaching and Learning, Public Schools, Teachers
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Sink-Scott debate a dispiriting affair
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsIf you call someone a "Tallahassee insider" and an "Obama liberal" until your face turns Republican red, is that enough to gloss over your own shortcomings? That, in a nutshell, is what the race for Florida governor has become. Republican......Tags: Local Government, Corporate Crime, Virginia Shuman Young Elementary School, State Income Tax, State Budgets
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Gloucester High School senior tabbed for DAR award
Who's on Team Gloucester?Jordan Cheresnowsky, a senior at Gloucester High School, has won the "Good Citizens Award" from the Augustine Warner Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. The award was announced today and Cheresnowsky was recognized by...Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), High Schools, Awards and Prizes
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Gloucester High School sophomore selected for leadership seminar
Who's on Team Gloucester?Audrey K. Jolly, a sophomore at Gloucester High School, was chosen from a class of 533 students to represent the school at a leadership seminar in May. Jolly was one of 14 sophomores nominated by school staff to apply for......Tags: Teaching and Learning, The Happiest News!, Students, High Schools
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Broward school board meeting -- Shameful and shameless
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsTwo words to sum up the Broward School Board meeting on Tuesday, the first since the release of a scathing statewide grand jury report: Shameful and shameless. Shameful: Only one measly member of the public -- a teacher -- turned......Tags: Justice System
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Are vouchers fundamentally wrong?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsInteresting piece today by my colleagues Cara Fitzpatrick and database specialist John Maines about the state's voucher program for low-income students . The program was craftily designed to withstand a court challenge. Instead of having state money go to...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Public Schools, Fox News Channel (tv network), Cooper City, Event Planning
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Is Notter still owed $126,000-a-year Broward school district job?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsToday is Jim Notter???s final day as Broward Schools Superintendent, but will it be his last day on the school district payroll? I ask because Notter is still legally entitled to a 3-year school district job worth around $378,000, and......Tags: Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Wages and Pensions, Retirement
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Why start school at hurricane season peak?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsWith one eye on the dreaded Cone of Concern, I took my little girl to her first day of kindergarten this morning. Then I came home to hear interim Broward Schools Superintendent Donnie Carter on the news talking about shuttering......Tags: Teaching and Learning, Disasters, Hurricanes, Holidays, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
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Draft and baseball recruiting; Mike Leach still available
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsCollege baseball coaches have it rough when it comes to recruiting, thanks to the Major League Draft. FAU coach John McCormack is going to have a rough couple days next week, as the draft begins Monday. McCormack could lose......Tags: Colleges and Universities, Mike Leach, John McCormack, College Baseball, High Schools
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Notter announces he'll step down as Broward school superintendent in June
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsBREAKING: Broward schools superintendent Jim Notter dropped a bombshell at the end of a long school board budget workshop on Tuesday: He's quitting at the end of the school year in June. Notter and the Broward School Board have been......Tags: Justice System, Work Relations, Ben Williams, Unions
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Oliphant's firing is a little unfair
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsWill Miriam Oliphant show up at her old stomping grounds -- the Broward County School Board -- to protest her sudden dismissal as a guidance counselor? That's the $75,200 question heading into today's board meeting. Oliphant, a school board member......Tags: Broward County School Board, Elections, Lawyers, Justice System, James F. Notter
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