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Elementary Education

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Dramatic North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre Now in Public Feud With His Kid's Science Teacher

    Controversy seems to follow North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre wherever he goes. So, naturally, now he's managed to get himself in a public feud with his kid's science teacher.Laurie Futterman, a science teacher at the David Lawrence Jr. K-8 Center, showed up last week at a city council meeting to speak ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 1, 2011

    Spelling for Drunks

    Controversy seems to follow North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre wherever he goes. So, naturally, now he's managed to get himself in a public feud with his kid's science teacher.Laurie Futterman, a science teacher at the David Lawrence Jr. K-8 Center, showed up last week at a city council meeting to speak ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 5, 2011

    Check Please with Tips

    Controversy seems to follow North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre wherever he goes. So, naturally, now he's managed to get himself in a public feud with his kid's science teacher.Laurie Futterman, a science teacher at the David Lawrence Jr. K-8 Center, showed up last week at a city council meeting to speak ... More >>

  • News

    February 24, 2011

    Rick Scott really understands blacks

    Controversy seems to follow North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre wherever he goes. So, naturally, now he's managed to get himself in a public feud with his kid's science teacher.Laurie Futterman, a science teacher at the David Lawrence Jr. K-8 Center, showed up last week at a city council meeting to speak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Governor Rick Scott Really Understands Blacks. Really!!

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke addresses Gov. Rick Scott's alienation from African Americans.Last week, Good Ole Gov. Ricky tried to explain to a group ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Florida Children: Kind of Dumb According to Statistics

    ​The good news: Florida's children aren't the dumbest. The bad news: they're no where near the smartest, either. According to a new statistical analysis by the listacle-happy Daily Beast, Florida's children are only the 30th smartest kids in America. Our children are painfully average. Like, they' ... More >>

  • News

    September 9, 2010

    Juarez's children: Drugs, death, and fear

    ​The good news: Florida's children aren't the dumbest. The bad news: they're no where near the smartest, either. According to a new statistical analysis by the listacle-happy Daily Beast, Florida's children are only the 30th smartest kids in America. Our children are painfully average. Like, they' ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2010

    On L.A.'s Skid Row, a generational war over how to teach the American children of illegal immigrants

    ​The good news: Florida's children aren't the dumbest. The bad news: they're no where near the smartest, either. According to a new statistical analysis by the listacle-happy Daily Beast, Florida's children are only the 30th smartest kids in America. Our children are painfully average. Like, they' ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2010

    Miami-Dade Public Schools administrators knew old buildings threatened students but did almost nothing

    ​The good news: Florida's children aren't the dumbest. The bad news: they're no where near the smartest, either. According to a new statistical analysis by the listacle-happy Daily Beast, Florida's children are only the 30th smartest kids in America. Our children are painfully average. Like, they' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Major League Dreidel Exists, Coming to Miami

    ​The only things little goys really know about Jewish culture they learned from A Rugrats Chanukah and kindergarten multicultural holiday celebrations. Basically this amounts to knowing there are eight days of presents and candle lighting, latkes taste great, and the lyrics to the dreide ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    Metrozoo Provides Family Fun With Dr. Wilde's Screamatorium

    Photo by Ron MagillNot the kind of clown you find at Cirque du Soleil.​Finding a place to take the peewees for a wholesome Halloween scare can be a daunting chore in this town. But the folks over at Miami's Metrozoo neatly fit the bill with Dr. Wilde's Screamatorium, the zoo's first full-scale fam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    ¿Que Pasa, M.I.A.? ¡Time For Lent!

    Catholicos, it's Lent time! Cuaresma, baby! Time for to behave really good. Time to make up for all the sinning and loving ladies and inappropriate gyrating. Time for me to undo the damage of having become a Cuban-American Idol. In Catholic school I was told to give up something during the 40 days o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    12-Year-Old Allegedly Trades Sex for Pot and Starts Playground Pot Ring

    Sometimes it seems like Miami really is tainting the rest of the state. Take this disturbing news from Palm Bay, a city up along Florida's northern Atlantic coast. Police are investigating claims that a 12-year-old girl visited Miami during her holiday break and traded sex for four bags of pot. A 12 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    The Best Political Reporter in South Florida

    Sometimes it seems like Miami really is tainting the rest of the state. Take this disturbing news from Palm Bay, a city up along Florida's northern Atlantic coast. Police are investigating claims that a 12-year-old girl visited Miami during her holiday break and traded sex for four bags of pot. A 12 ... More >>

  • News

    October 2, 2008

    Invasion of the Amazon Women

    Big girls, little guys, lots of fun.

  • News

    June 5, 2008

    Miami Fury Football Still Struggles

    After a decade on the gridiron, the city's only women's pro squad tries to tackle a losing record.

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2008

    Full Q&A with the Virgins

    After a decade on the gridiron, the city's only women's pro squad tries to tackle a losing record.

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2008

    No Tree Left Behind

    After a decade on the gridiron, the city's only women's pro squad tries to tackle a losing record.

  • News

    March 27, 2008

    Cops Are Cranky

    Miami spends $50K to find out the obvious.

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2007

    Another Bush in Politics

    Miami spends $50K to find out the obvious.

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2007

    4 White Dudes in Tighty Whities = Suspension!

    Miami spends $50K to find out the obvious.

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2007

    Proud to be Average

    Miami spends $50K to find out the obvious.

  • Music

    January 11, 2007

    Roots Redux

    Matthew Sabatella connects with just plain folk

  • Calendar

    January 4, 2007

    Be More Flexible

    Limber never looked so good

  • Calendar

    December 28, 2006

    Amigos in High Places

    Limber never looked so good

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2006

    New Times Plays Cupid

    Limber never looked so good

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2006

    I Don't Know Either

    Limber never looked so good

  • News

    August 10, 2006

    Commie Book Ban

    Vamos a Cuba has become an unlikely political lightning rod

  • Calendar

    June 29, 2006

    Speakeasy and Spell

    Vamos a Cuba has become an unlikely political lightning rod

  • News

    December 16, 2004

    Special Education

    Vamos a Cuba has become an unlikely political lightning rod

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    The Kids Aren't All Right

    School incident reports create a journal crammed with violence, drama, rivalry, and intrigue

  • Shops and Wares

    May 15, 2003

    BEST SPANISH-LANGUAGE BOOKSTORE

    La Moderna Poesia

  • Music

    May 16, 2002

    BEST LOCAL SOLO MUSICIAN

    Nicole Henry

  • News

    February 28, 2002

    Resegregation Now, Resegregation Forever!

    Are charter-school conversions the vanguard for public education or a scam for resegregating the learning experience and making a lot of money?

  • Music

    December 6, 2001

    Aaron Carter's Hood

    Blue-eyed hip-hop gives back

  • News

    February 8, 2001

    Reading, Writing, and Construction Cranes

    Quaint little school meets hulking high-rise behemoth

  • News

    September 7, 2000

    Cruel or Usual Punishment?

    Miami-Dade County has a hands-off policy toward its schoolchildren, but that doesn't mean corporal punishment has gone away

  • News

    August 24, 2000

    Schoolhouse Knocks

    Although the Liberty City Charter School helped make Jeb Bush governor, four years on it's barely passing

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    According to Granma

    Threats and Violence Lead to Tragedy

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    What's My Lineage

    Hey all you Miami-Dade teachers, are you tired of your ethnicity? Change it! Any switch is possible -- it could even help you get a better job.

  • News

    March 25, 1999

    News of the Weird

    Hey all you Miami-Dade teachers, are you tired of your ethnicity? Change it! Any switch is possible -- it could even help you get a better job.

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Chairman of the Board

    Folks don't know much about school board chairman Solomon Stinson, but they do know this: Don't cross him

  • News

    July 9, 1998

    A Real Class Act

    What happens when four women accuse a high school principal of sexual harassment? So far, not much.

  • News

    October 23, 1997

    News of the Weird

    What happens when four women accuse a high school principal of sexual harassment? So far, not much.

  • News

    September 4, 1997

    Robert Isn't Here

    If county bureaucrats have their way, the venerable South Dade farmer's market will be forced to change its evil ways: No more milk shakes!

  • News

    April 20, 1994

    What's Next A Secession?

    Key Biscayners were able to incorporate without a hitch. Now they want to annex a state park, and maybe get some more money out of the Dade school system.

  • News

    February 23, 1994

    Beacon of Hope

    Students who can't overcome the alienation of inner-city public schools are finding their thrill on Beacon Hill

  • News

    July 28, 1993

    The parents couldn't believe what they were seeing. The children were frightened by what they heard. The staff resented their intrusion. And the school was supposedly a model of racial harmony.

    Students who can't overcome the alienation of inner-city public schools are finding their thrill on Beacon Hill

  • News

    September 30, 1992

    A Patch of Green

    Thanks to the lobbying of one schoolteacher, Dade's most ambitious garden grows in Liberty City

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