Broward County Public Schools Environmental website and South Plantation High School teacher Pamela Krauss have each received the prestigious 2010 Governor’s Serve to Preserve: Green School Award. Winners received a trophy and $1,500. The District was honored for its interactive, environmental website “Live Green, Learn Green” (www.BrowardSchoolsGoGreen.com). Krauss was selected for a “Green Waterwise” project. [...]
Gallagher, 51, of Pembroke Pines, was sentenced today on one count of bribery in programs receiving federal funds. At today’s hearing, U.S. District Court Judge James I. Cohn sentenced Gallagher to 37 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. In addition, Judge Cohn ordered that the defendant participate in a [...]
The first four of 92 surplus portable classrooms donated to the Republic of Haiti left Dania, Florida onboard The Caribbean Express on Sunday, May 2. The ship is scheduled to arrive in the Republic of Haiti on Wednesday, May 5. The shipping of these portable classrooms is the result of the combined efforts of the [...]
Broward County School Board members and Superintendent James F. Notter will meet Thursday, April 29 to discuss the 2010/2011 school year proposed budgetary cut that calls for, among other things, a dramatic reduction in District administrators, staff, teachers and education programs. The annual budget retreat will take place at Fort Lauderdale High School beginning
Broward County Public Schools will honor outstanding school volunteers, mentors and business partners at its Community Involvement Awards, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. The recognition ceremony will spotlight members of the community that have dedicated time and effort to expanding educational opportunities for students. The awards program will be held at the Broward County Convention Center, [...]
Leslie Rheingold, National Board Certified Language Arts teacher at Cypress Bay High School, will be recognized for her accomplishments in teaching Holocaust Studies during a special ceremony to be held
The School Board of Broward County yesterday, March 24, 2010, announced the signing of an agreement between Broward County Public Schools and the Broward Teachers Union on the Effective Teacher Program (ETP).
Editor’s note: Video is a Lou Lautin Production (www.lewlautinphotographer.com) It was all about the arts Tuesday afternoon as art teachers and their supporters gathered on Las Olas, near the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, to protest planned budget cuts to arts, music, library and PE programs, primarily in the elementary schools.
Nova High School will formally become Broward County Public Schools 14th high school to offer the driver’s education program to students with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, March 15
There’s an old adage that if you need to eat an entire elephant, it is best to eat it one bite at a time. That is the approach taken by the Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) in its determination to become environmentally friendly and ecologically sound, while teaching its students how to “Live Green, Learn [...]
The Broward Schools Integrity ethics panel will convene its third and final public hearing on Monday, March 15th, 2010, from 6 pm to 8 pm at
In an effort to gain further public sentiment on the current operations of the Broward County School District and School Board, Broward Schools Integrity ethics panel announces that it will be holding~the second of its three public hearings. Bob Butterworth, George Allen and Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler, pictured, head the ethics panel. The panel [...]
As of Friday, February 5, 2010, Broward County Public Schools has received 587 new students from Haiti in the aftermath of the country’s recent devastating earthquake. These students are acclimating at
Broward County Public Schools staff, students, parents and supporters have responded with overwhelming generosity to assist the people in Haiti following the devastating earthquake. Broward County Public Schools has culminated a weeklong District-wide relief effort to collect and receive
Those closest to the Broward County School system came out to speak Monday night to the recently appointed ethics panel to review the system’s ethics policies for board members and staff alike. After a large number of high profile arrests in 2009, both the Broward County School Board and Broward County Commission have committees reviewing [...]
With temperatures only reaching 60 degrees during the day the last few weeks, everyone in South Florida has been cold, but the hundreds of students in our Broward County Public Schools have been especially cold. Teachers around the county have reported to the Broward Teachers’ Union that many schools do not have workable heaters or [...]
Broward County Public Schools College Academy @ BC will hold informational open houses at Bailey Hall, Broward Community College, Central Campus, 3501 SW Davie Road, Davie, on Wednesday, January 27 at 7 p.m. (for students whose last names begin with A-L) and Thursday, January 28 at 7 p.m. (for students whose last names begin with [...]
From the Broward Teacher’s Union: Just days after BTU President Pat Santeramo threatened to withhold support for tens of millions of dollars in new federal education funding, which requires the union to sign off on, top union and district officials will meet at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 17 in a first ever high-level finance [...]
Five Broward County public high schools – Atlantic Technical Center, Fort Lauderdale High School, Nova High School, Pompano Beach High School and William T. McFatter Technical High School – were named among the Best High Schools 2010 in a recent analysis conducted by
Broward County Public Schools recently announced the 2009/10 year graduation dates and locations for its high schools and alternative education centers. Below is the list.
Six individuals from around the District have been named as finalists for Broward’s School-Related Employee of the Year 2010, and will be honored at a breakfast and ceremony scheduled for Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 8:30 a.m., at the Signature Grand, 6900 State Road 84 in Davie. The finalists are:
The Foundation for Excellence in Education recently announced 11 Broward County Public Schools teachers as recipients of the 2009 Excel Award, which rewards teachers whose students made the most progress in reading or math from one year to the next according to annual standardized tests.
A dedication ceremony will be held beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday, December 9, for the newly installed environmental garden at the New Renaissance Middle School in Miramar. The garden was funded by a grant secured by Broward County’s NatureScape program through the National Football League’s Environmental Program in preparation for the upcoming Super Bowl XLIV [...]
The fourth and final Community Boundary Conference during this phase of the school boundaries process will be hosted by the District’s School Boundaries Department on Monday, November 23 at 7 p.m. at J.P. Taravella High School,
Update: https://browardnetonline.com/2009/11/close-to-a-thousand-protest-outside-school-board-steps/ From the Broward Teacher’s Union Fed up with corrupt Broward schools officials who unabashedly waste millions of tax dollars on such favorites as rehiring their retired friends and building hundreds of empty classrooms, an estimated 1,000 protestors will surround the K.C. Wright Building, known by some who work in the school system as [...]
