Education has become a top priority in Florida with a wave of federal funding that will make its way to Take Stock in Children, a statewide non-profit organization with a 15 year history of working in partnership with over 800 public schools to help low-income and at-risk teenagers break the cycle of poverty by providing [...]
Continuing his focus on strengthening Florida’s economy, Governor Charlie Crist praised the progress of the Broward College Public Safety Institute during a recent groundbreaking dedication ceremony in Broward County on Aug. 18. The project, which has been in progress for 10 years, is expected to create more than 200 constructions jobs. “In addition to increasing [...]
Broward County Public Schools announced that 232,850 students attended District schools on the first day of school, Monday, August 23. The District’s 2010/11 first-day enrollment count increased by 1,355 students, when compared to last year’s 231,495 first-day enrollment mark. The student enrollment count includes all students who were in attendance at all schools, including charters [...]
It has been put forth here before as it is again, as the Broward County School Board continues to struggle to manage its budget, ask the parents and the students for ways to save money! Today, like almost every day last year, students come home complaining of classrooms that are Arctic cold. At a time when money [...]
Governor Charlie Crist today joined students and teachers at, his alma mater, St. Petersburg High School, to celebrate Florida’s recent Race to the Top award, announced yesterday in Phase 2 of the national education reform competition. Florida will receive up to $700 million in education funding which will work toward improving the state’s lowest performing [...]
The District had been preparing to begin the 2010-11 school year with 536 teachers on layoff from the 2009-10 school year and 19 from the 2008-09 school year, for a total of 555 teachers on layoff status. However, since July 1st, the District has rehired 463. Of the 92 instructional staff members remaining on layoff, [...]
Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and other local organizations will hold a Women’s Equality Day Celebration to commemorate the 90th anniversary of women’s voting rights. The celebration will be held on Thursday, August 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Student Union on the Boca Raton campus, 777 [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Horner is running against incumbent Ann Murray who has not responded to BrowardNETOnline.com’s questions. Horner submitted her own bio. Rebecca Horner is a Pittsburgh PA native currently living in Hollywood. She [...]
Members of several local community groups have partnered with Broward County Public Schools again for the Broward Million Father March take a child to the first day of school campaign – encouraging fathers, relatives, men and significant male caregivers to take their children to school on the first day of classes, Monday, August 23.
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Robert Mayersohn is running against five other candidates: Penny Madden, Robert W. Sutton,Jaemi Levine, David “Dave” Thomas and Donald Samuels for retiring school board member Stephanie Kraft. Robert wrote his own [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Jim Lansing is running against three other candidates, Nora Rupert, Travis Williamson and Russell Kaufman to replace retiring school board member Bob Parks in District 7. Lansing submitted his own bio. [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Kevin Tynan is the incumbent running to retain his seat of which was appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist after the former school board member Beverly Gallagher was charged with corruption. Tynan [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Laurie Rich Levinson is running against incumbent Phyllis Hope as well as two others, Lynn Simon and Melvin “Doc” Propis for school board district 6 seat.Levinson submitted her own bio. Laurie [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Travis Williamson is running against three other candidates, Nora Rupert, Jim Lansing and Russell Kaufman to replace retiring school board member Bob Parks in District 7. Williamson submitted his own bio. [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Melvin “Doc” Propis is running against incumbent Phyllis Hope as well as two others, Laurie Rich Levinson and Lynn Simon for school board district 6 seat. Melvin “Doc” Propis has been [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. David “Dave” Thomas is running against five other candidates to replace outgoing school board member Stephanie Kraft in School Board District 4. The other candidates are Robert W. Sutton, Jaemi Levine, [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Nora Rupert is running against three other candidates, Travis Williamson, Jim Lansing and Russell Kaufman to replace retiring school board member Bob Parks in District 7. Nora Rupert is currently an [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Lynn Simon is running against incumbent Phyllis Hope as well as two others, Laurie Rich Levinson and Melvin “Doc” Propis for school board district 6 seat. Bio is from her website. [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Penny Madden is running against five other candidates: Robert Mayersohn, Robert W. Sutton,Jaemi Levine, David “Dave” Thomas and Donald Samuels for retiring school board member Stephanie Kraft. Penny wrote her own [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Russell Kaufman is running against three seats to replace outgoing Bob Parks who held the District 7 seat for close to 25 years. Kaufman is running against Jim Lansing, Nora Rupert [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Robert W. Sutton is running against five other candidates for the District 4 School Board Seat. Penny Madden and Dave Thomas have also responded to our questions while Robert Mayersohn, Don [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Joel Smith is running in the August 24 primary against appointed incumbent Kevin Tynan and Patti Good, neither of which have returned answers to the questions yet. Joel L. Smith is [...]
Polls have already opened across Broward County for the August 24 primary which not only includes a number of federal and state races, but a large number of local seats are open, with a lot of competition in the Broward School Board race which has 22 candidates vying for six seats. CLICK HERE TO FIND [...]
This is part of a series on all the school board candidates. To see all the candidates and learn more about them, click here. Nick Sakhnovsky is running in the August 24 primary against incumbent Jennifer Gottlieb and newcomer Susan Madori. Neither one has responded to our questions, though both have been contacted at least [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has designated the Center for Ocean Energy Technology (COET) at Florida Atlantic University as a national center for ocean energy research and development. The new Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC) at FAU joins centers in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii that also work to advance the operational [...]
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