By Jeffrey S. Solochek Times staff The days of unlocked doors, gates and other access points at Florida’s schools are coming to an end. New state law, which takes effect July 1, says schools must keep all classroom, building and campus entrances and exits closed and locked when... Continue Reading
Miami Herald | By Jimena Tavel | Six years and four months after a tragedy scarred South Florida forever, the building where it all unraveled will be destroyed. The 1200 building of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland will be demolished in mid June. Inside that three-story... Continue Reading
BY JOSEPH KONIG The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Wednesday that 530 school districts across the country will receive nearly $900 million to replace diesel school buses with electric and natural gas ones. What You Need To Know The Environmental Protection Agency... Continue Reading
By Ayana Archie The winner of this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee has been crowned. Bruhat Soma, a 12-year-old from Florida, bested the competition Thursday with his spelling of “abseil,” a word used to describe descending a vertical surface area with a rope attached to... Continue Reading
Coconut Palm K-8 Academy and Country Club Middle School are celebrating a remarkable achievement as they become two out of the five schools across Florida selected to each receive a Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) STEM Classroom Makeover Grant. This $50,000 grant, $100,000 grant total,... Continue Reading
The Florida State Board of Education held its monthly meeting in downtown Miami Wednesday morning, marking its first field gathering in South Florida in nearly seven years. Representatives from the Florida Education Association and the United Teachers of Miami-Dade held a press briefing to... Continue Reading
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) and Miami-Dade County Police, in partnership with BusPatrol America, have begun enforcing South Florida’s first and largest school bus stop-arm camera enforcement program in the nation. All 1,000 school buses are equipped with cameras designed to... Continue Reading
By ANDREW ATTERBURY Florida’s top education official downplayed the sizable enrollment declines plaguing some of the largest school districts in the state on Wednesday, labeling potential campus closures as a motivation for traditional public schools to “innovate and provide... Continue Reading
BY: JACKIE LLANOS For nearly three decades, Florida school board elections have been nonpartisan. But this November, under Amendment 1, voters could choose the political approach, which would allow Democrats, Republicans and other party candidates to sit on partisan school boards. Supporters... Continue Reading
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) offers myriad ways to assist the 9,000 of its students who fall under the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). “Special education teachers in our autism support classrooms utilize a multisensory approach to teaching and learning, activating the visual... Continue Reading
By SCOTT TRAVIS Broward School Board members could decide Wednesday how quickly they want to start closing schools to deal with dwindling student enrollment. Superintendent Howard Hepburn plans to bring to the School Board on Wednesday two proposals that would close eight schools: One... Continue Reading
Colleen Wixon Voters are being asked in November to continue paying a 1/2-mil property tax for district technology, recruiting high-quality teachers and expanding school safety, security and student wellness. The School Board has unanimously agreed to put the four-year tax on the Nov. 5... Continue Reading
