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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Wait — "may?" You mean... they can do this... now? According to a report in the Miami Herald , school bus drivers in Dade County may soon be banned from texting while driving . A member of the Miami-Dade school board proposed the new rule because, as he puts it, "people don't understand how serious of an issue this is. It's really dangerous." We'd make...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a case challenging a Miami-Dade School Board decision to remove a controversial children's book about Cuba from public schools, the court announced Monday.
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ACLU (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... 2006, American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Inc., Greater Miami Chapter, et. al. v. Miami-Dade County School Board, the lawsuit fought the decision of the school board to ban the 24-book English- and Spanish-language series for children which was banned from Miami-Dade public school libraries last month, including the polemic Vamos a Cuba. "The Miami-Dade...
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Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A three-year battle that pitted claims of censorship against the right of Miami-Dade schools to remove from their shelves a book that portrays an inaccurate view of life in Cuba ended Monday on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Gradebook (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Florida is once again changing its rules for the way teachers are trained to teach English-language learners. And perhaps not surprisingly, the issue remains controversial. Rosa Castro Feinberg, the retired FIU education prof and former Miami-Dade School Board member, has...