DECEMBER 8-10, 2012
Music to fill Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airport
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport will be filled with music this week, courtesy of about 1,500 children from Broward County schools.
Our very own Tamarac Recorder Club will be preforming Thursday.
Special-needs students find healing through art therapy
Jane
Laun remembers getting a phone call almost every day from her son’s
school, urging her to come get her child because he had had another
meltdown. Her son, Justin, isautistic. “I was causing all these troubles,” said 15-year-old Justin, who now attends Sunset School Center in Fort Lauderdale, that works strictly with special-needs students. “I would go home early… I was causing too much damage.”
Broward Magnet Programs and Nova Schools application window now open
Broward
County Public Schools Magnet Programs and Nova Schools application
period for the 2013/14 school year is now open through February 13,
2013. All Broward resident students in grades K-12 are eligible to
apply. Parents and students may choose from an array of educational
options available for the next school year and determine where they
would like to apply.
State DOE revises teacher evaluation results
The
Florida Department of Education has botched yet another major release
of school data – the teacher evaluation results released Wednesday were
wrong. The state revised its numbers Thursday afternoon and said many of
the personnel counts had been mistakenly duplicated. Individual teacher
evaluation scores, they said, did not change.
DECEMBER 12, 2012
Dillard High may expand to K-12; 4 schools face drastic changes
DillardHigh School
may house middle school students next year under a proposal that could
be the first step toward creating a countywide K-12 digital arts magnet
school. The underenrolled FortLauderdale school would get most of its middle school students from nearby
Arthur Ashe
Middle, one of four failing Broward schools that will likely be closed
or dramatically changed under a plan to meet state accountability
standards.
Dillard High, four other schools, could be overhauled
Dramatic
changes could be coming to Broward County schools, including a major
expansion of focus for Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale. A
proposal to turn Dillard into a K-12 digital arts and entertainment
magnet school was mentioned almost as an afterthought in a discussion to
improve four other schools.
New Broward school board member could lose part of her district
The
school board heard from its redistricting committee Tuesday on how to
best redraw its district lines. District boundaries are usually redrawn
every 10 years to reflect the most recent Census data. Broward,
however, postponed the process until after the 2012 elections. But that
decision may have some consequences for one of the board’s newest
members, Dr. Rosalind Osgood.
South Florida students learn the effects of hatred
Eyewitnesses
to the Holocaust share their stories with hundreds of high school
students in an effort to combat bullying, racism and bigotry.
Legionnaires exposure reported at Dania school
Parents of students at Olsen Middle School in Dania Beach
were being informed on Tuesday that their children may have been
exposed to someone diagnosed with Legionnaires Disease, Broward School
District officials said. The person with
Legionnaires Disease was not a student, district spokeswoman Nadine Drew
said.
Legionnaires' Disease diagnosis reported at Broward school
Teacher
at Olsen Middle School allegedly diagnosed with Legionnaire's Disease
Broward County Public Schools and the county Health Department announced
Tuesday that a male teacher at Olsen Middle School in Dania Beach had
apparently contracted Legionnaires' Disease. There were no reports of
any students coming down with the form of pneumonia. Still, some parents
who attended the school's annual Christmas concert Tuesday night told
Local 10's Baron James that the district waited too long to notify them.
Teacher accused of having sex with student will not face criminal charges
The
Cypress Bay High teacher and coach currently under a school district
investigation for allegedly having sex with a student will not face
criminal charges, authorities said Tuesday.
