Rubio wants NCAA to allow athl...

Nov 8, 2019 by

Rubio wants NCAA to allow athletes to make money

Marco Rubio is drawing up plans to compensate NCAA college athletes for their name, image and likeness weeks after a similar bill in...

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DeSantis says he’ll push highe...

Oct 8, 2019 by

DeSantis says he’ll push higher starting pay for FL teachers

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that he would be pushing the Florida Legislature to raise the minimum starting salary for teachers...

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Orlando school resource office...

Sep 23, 2019 by

Orlando school resource officer suspended after arresting 2 children ages 6 and 8

An Orlando school resource officer was suspended while he faces an internal investigation after arresting two children — ages 6 and 8...

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Head of The Cushman School Arv...

Aug 25, 2019 by

Head of The Cushman School Arvi Balseiro explains the need to for Active Shooter Symposium

Faculty and staff of The Cushman School gather at an Active Shooter Preparedness Symposium hosted by the Miami Police Shield Detail...

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Jamaica wants to end beatings,...

Jul 30, 2019 by

Jamaica wants to end beatings, paddling of kids, saying it leads to later violence

As a child growing up in a vividly violent Jamaican ghetto, Ian Salmon remembers being regularly beaten by his father, who once...

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There’s no ‘equity’ in Florida...

May 8, 2019 by

There’s no ‘equity’ in Florida Legislature’s school choice

To freshman Rep. Vance Aloupis, a Miami Republican, the Florida Legislature’s substantial public money giveaways to private schools —...

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Teachers can carry guns under ...

May 1, 2019 by

Teachers can carry guns under bill approved by FL lawmakers

After about seven hours of angry, sometimes deeply painful debate about race and gun violence that spanned two days, the Florida...

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Cutler Bay students will walk ...

Apr 22, 2019 by

Cutler Bay students will walk 500-mile Camino Real in Spain

Laura Leon and Robert Leonard of Cutler Bay High School were recently selected to participate in the El Camino de Santiago Program,...

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Education is key priority for ...

Apr 15, 2019 by

Education is key priority for Florida Influencers in 2019

With Florida lawmakers debating the arming of school staff and the sharing of teacher raises to charter school employees, education...

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At Annual Youth Legal Educatio...

Jul 20, 2018 by

At Annual Youth Legal Education Summit, teens learn the law

Kennedy Jennings has stood in courtrooms and helped determine the sentences of first-time teen offenders. She’s 15. She hasn’t...

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Report: Americans are finding ...

Jun 5, 2018 by

Report: Americans are finding work, but the better paying jobs

As technology and global competition reshape the work landscape, too many new jobs are low-wage, with few benefits or possibilities...

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Miami-Dade wants to build apar...

Mar 26, 2018 by

Miami-Dade wants to build apartments at schools for teachers

Amid a wide gap between modest teacher salaries and Miami’s high housing prices, the county has a new plan: build apartments on...

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Was Carvalho’s snub of d...

Mar 4, 2018 by

Was Carvalho’s snub of de Blasio a covert campaign rally?

What was Alberto Carvalho thinking? Highly ambitious and politically shrewd, the man who rose from undocumented dishwasher to CEO of...

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Stoneman Douglas teachers neve...

Feb 18, 2018 by

Stoneman Douglas teachers never wanted to be heroes

Scott Beigel had a choice as gunfire exploded around him: keep the deadbolt on his third-floor geography class locked, or open up and...

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Rubio tells Miami Dade College...

Feb 6, 2018 by

Rubio tells Miami Dade College to cancel Confucius Institute

Miami Dade College is under pressure to disassociate itself from a controversial Chinese government-affiliated institution that has...

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School system’s appeals ...

Feb 5, 2018 by

School system’s appeals process leaves some minorities out

It’s an annual rite in Fairfax County, which has one of the wealthiest, best-educated populations in America: Hundreds of...

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Miami-Dade Schools wants stude...

Dec 11, 2017 by

Miami-Dade Schools wants students to know how to say #MeToo

Miami-Dade County Public Schools agreed to research an education campaign that reminds students of all grade levels how to spot and...

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School boards ask Florida Supr...

Nov 15, 2017 by

School boards ask Florida Supreme Court to void education law

TALLAHASSEE Raising the prospect of “irreversible damage” to the public-education system, nine school boards want the Florida Supreme...

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Miami lawmakers seek the right...

Oct 27, 2017 by

Miami lawmakers seek the right to make surprise visits to troubled youth justice programs

Two state lawmakers from Miami-Dade County have filed a bill that would allow legislators, judges and public defenders to make...

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In Florida delinquency program...

Oct 12, 2017 by

In Florida delinquency programs, small fights escalate to beatings

Workers who supervise delinquent youths in Florida’s juvenile justice system sometimes escalate minor fights into bloody,...

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