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...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The Miami-Dade School Board on Tuesday named longtime board member Solomon Stinson as its chair.<p/> Board member Perla Tabares Hantman will serve as the board's vice chairwoman for the upcoming year.
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.
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...
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.
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...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Miami-Dade School Board member Larry Feldman had the best intentions when he planned a birthday surprise for Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.
