The Miami-Dade County School Board approved a contract for its new superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, despite protests of unethical selection procedures and accusations of an affair.

The Miami-Dade County School Board and Rudy Crew, the superintendent who came promising to overhaul education as he did in New York City, agreed to part ways.

Two constitutional amendments intended to help Florida’s school voucher programs withstand legal challenges cannot appear on the November ballot, the State Supreme Court ruled.

David Campbell is bringing Florida’s mandate to teach evolution to many students raised to take the biblical creation story as fact.

Looks like Florida may be in for the first storm of the season. It may or may not become a hurricane, but certainly we will get some strong weather no matter what. If you have family around S. Florida, you may want to start making plans, especially if they are elderly. My grandmother is very old and lives alone in S.W. Florida so we will probably go down there this weekend to make sure everything is OK. Plus it gives everyone an excuse to get out of the house.

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Florida A&M University’s renowned band spreads its ecstatic style in a summer program that attracts hundreds of students from across the country.