February 9 - 11, 2013
Musical to recreate Springs' 50-year history
CoralSprings students
will, with some help from principals, city officials and senior city
staff, recreate the history of the city through music at an event next
month.The musical will be one of the highlights of the city's 50th
anniversary celebrations.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/coral-springs/fl-cspf-history-0207-20130209,0,3866482.story
Should Florida teachers get big hike in pay?
After
years of frozen wages, pension reforms that ate into their pay and a
new accountability system that will base pay on performance, the subject
of teacher salaries in Florida is gaining new political attention.
State Rep. Kevin Rader, D-Delray Beach, and state Sen. Joe Abruzzo, D-Wellington,
have filed twin bills in the Legislature to give teachers an average
$10,000 pay increase, which they say would make them level with their
national counterparts. Gov. Rick Scott, in a separate plan, wants to
give all teachers a $2,500 pay raise.
Students arrested for throwing spitballs, lollipops
Thousands
of Florida students are arrested in school each year and taken to jail
for behavior that once warranted a trip to the principal's office — a
trend that troubles juvenile-justice and civil-rights leaders who say
children are being traumatized for noncriminal acts….Broward school
officials are working with law enforcement officials and school
administrators to reduce the incidents,including drafting a set of
non-criminal punishments — such as in-school suspension — for discipline
problems.