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New Year's stupidity: Broward schools open on federal holiday
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsHow???s this for confusing? While most workers will be off, Broward public schools will be open on Monday. The situation is infuriating to a lot of working parents. The Broward school calendar has been filled with off days on regular......Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Marketing, Holidays, Schools
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Gloucester supervisor, superintendent exchange e-mails on school funding
Who's on Team Gloucester?Here's an exchange of e-mails between Gloucester Supervisor Michelle Ressler and Gloucester Public School System Superintendent Ben Kiser over the school funding issue. Start from the bottom up, of course.----- Original Message ----- From: gcpskiser@cox....Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Verizon Wireless, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Plastic Surgeons, Health
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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: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Schools, Education
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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: Personal Income, State Income Tax, Constitutional Issues, Real Estate, Income Tax
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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: Economy, Business and Finance, Florida, Cooper City, Companies and Corporations, ABC (tv network)
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Making the FCAT grade: What does it mean?
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsBroward and Palm Beach County public schools both got overall A grades in this year???s state FCAT rankings. Is this cause for celebration, or just meaningless window dressing? I suppose congratulations are in order. But with so many schools and......Tags: Charter Schools, Pembroke Pines, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Schools, Education
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Durbin to AG: help on Chicago violence
The Swampby John McCormick Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to do more to address youth violence in Chicago. "Last school year, more than 500 Chicago school children were shot and at least 36......Tags: Parliament, Schools, Education, Eric Holder, Crime, Law and Justice
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Colin Powell: Racial profiling, anger, cool
The Swampby Mark Silva Retired Army Gen. Colin Powell, who also once served as the chief diplomat for the United States, says Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could have averted the famed confrontation with the Cambridge, Mass., Police Department at......Tags: Public Finance, National Security Agency, Rush Limbaugh, Sports, White House
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Obama's back-to-school lesson plans
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 230 pm EDT The suggested lesson plans accompanying President Barack Obama's planned address to schoolchildren next week have been modified, but this hasn't mollified critics of the president's back-to-school speech.: The...Tags: Television Industry, Employment, White House, YouTube, Education
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Obama's back-to-school 'Socialist' agenda
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, whose two young daughters return to school next week, has some back-to-school plans of his own: An unprecedented presidential address to public schoolchildren at noon EDT on Tuesday. Arne Duncan, the president's...Tags: Employment, Children, White House, Al Sharpton, People
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Chicago violence (and guns?): Obama
The Swampby Mark Silva At least 47 school-age children in Chicago have died in homicides -- mostly victims of gun violence - since January, when President Barack Obama, of Chicago, took office, our Chicago-based friend, John McCormick, notes at Bloomberg News........Tags: White House, Gun Control, Derrion Albert, Interior Policy, Schools
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Race to the Top: Teachers left behind?
The Swampby Mark Silva In "the race to the top,'' no child will be left behind, we're assured, but a lot of low-performing teachers - as measured by the poor performance of their students - may be The government has set......Tags: American Federation of Teachers, Standards, Charter Schools, Teachers Unions, Jeb Bush
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