By Alyson Klein Teaching math, at least in part, by having students solve real-world problems is becoming increasingly popular in schools. In fact, California recently adopted a controversial framework that embraces the approach. However, educators are still divided over whether it’s the... Continue Reading
Lillian Lawson, Gainesville Sun Alachua County Public Schools' plan to turn Williams Elementary into the district’s first International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP) has been approved. ACPS posted on Facebook Thursday evening that the International Baccalaureate... 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 Howard Hepburn is vowing to become a different kind of superintendent for Broward County Schools — one who actually stays. Hepburn, 45, signed a three-year contract May 21 at an annual salary of $340,000. He became the sixth person in three years to hold the title of... Continue Reading
