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  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    McKay Scholarship Fraud: Florida Rep. Rick Kriseman Urges Big Changes To Troubled Program

    ​A movement is growing in Tallahassee to reform the fraud and abuse-plagued McKay Scholarship program following a New Times exposé. Yesterday, state representative Rick Kriseman (D-St. Petersburg) took the boldest step yet, recommending specific and widespread changes that would address the progr ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    Ave Maria University: A Catholic project gone wrong

    ​A movement is growing in Tallahassee to reform the fraud and abuse-plagued McKay Scholarship program following a New Times exposé. Yesterday, state representative Rick Kriseman (D-St. Petersburg) took the boldest step yet, recommending specific and widespread changes that would address the progr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Choice Preparatory School, Football "Diploma Mill", Gets More Taxpayer Dollars

    ​Choice Preparatory School was banned from sports competition last year after an investigator for the state athletic athletic association found no evidence of classes taking place there. Its director has been involved in two schools found to have defrauded the Department of Education of fund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent, Calls for McKay Program Overhaul

    ​In June, New Times published a feature exposing rampant fraud and a near-complete absence of oversight in the $150-million-a-year taxpayer-funded McKay scholarship program for disabled children to attend private schools. One of our readers, it turns out, was Miami-Dade schools superintendent Alb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Miami Is the Least Educated City in America, According to Men's Health

    According to Men's Health, the Miamians are dumber than the average person who actually reads Men's Health. The magazine took time out of doing crunches and crunched some numbers on the education levels of citizens in the 100 biggest cities in America. Miami came in dead last.

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Achievement Gap Between White and Hispanic Students Still as Wide as it Was in the 1990s

    Some children are apparently still left behind. ​Nearly 10 years ago President George W. Bush signed into law the "No Child Left Behind" act. Among other goals, Bush believed his education reforms would help close the achievement gap between white and minority students. Well, the Department of Edu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    McKay Scholarship: The Fraud Hall of Shame

    ​If you ask us, a private school that's been busted defrauding the state of scholarship money for disabled kids probably doesn't deserve a second chance. It most likely wasn't the finest institution of learning anyway. The state clearly doesn't agree. Yesterday, we published a feature story ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2011

    Doral school awards dubious diplomas

    ​If you ask us, a private school that's been busted defrauding the state of scholarship money for disabled kids probably doesn't deserve a second chance. It most likely wasn't the finest institution of learning anyway. The state clearly doesn't agree. Yesterday, we published a feature story ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    I Cheated My Way Through High School Last Week

    And yes, my legal first name is Geoffrey.​Like thousands of local students, I graduated from high school last week. But I cheated -- by having elementary and junior high school kids do my work for me. Two Thursdays ago, I called the phone number -- 305-716-0909 -- listed on a sign, reading simpl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Miami Northwestern Students Get Shaft From Education Bureaucrats

    Education Commissioner Eric J. Smith says no to Miami Northwestern.An assistant principal's mistake led Miami Northwestern High to get graded a D instead of a C last year. But the state's education commissioner won't grant Miami-Dade Public Schools' request to give Northwestern the higher grade. As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Despite Fraud and Illegal Recruiting, Choice Learning Academy Administrators Still Working With Kids

    This week's New Times feature, "Talent Trap", tells the story of Choice Learning Academy-- later named Center of Life Academy-- a tiny school in a homeless shelter that defrauded the state of learning-disability education funds and illegally recruited basketball players from around the world to boar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina To Run for County Mayor

    via Facebook​In a story in last week's issue, we painted Julio Robaina as the front runner in the 2012 Miami-Dade County mayoral race despite the fact he hadn't officially announced his intentions yet. Well, right on cure Robaina has announced that he will seek the office. The second term mayor of ... More >>

  • News

    January 6, 2011

    Julio Robaina: Dade's next mayor?

    via Facebook​In a story in last week's issue, we painted Julio Robaina as the front runner in the 2012 Miami-Dade County mayoral race despite the fact he hadn't officially announced his intentions yet. Well, right on cure Robaina has announced that he will seek the office. The second term mayor of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    Hundreds of People Will Leave Reagan High To Protest Reagan's Favorite Thing: Cutting Education Funding

    via Cliff1066's FlickrRonald Reagan, our Nation's greatest alliteratively named President to serve in the second half of the 20th century, did not like to spend a lot of money on public education. As Governor of California he opposed increases to basic education programs pretty much every chance he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Buh Bye Bush, Thanks For... Um, Nevermind

    For weeks now, I've been toying with the idea of posting all of the achievements of George W. Bush on his last full day in office. Of course this was going to be satirical in nature. Noting things like how we haven't had a terrorist attack on our soil since 2001, despite the fact experts like Bob Gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    How to Rebuild the Republican Party: Trickle-Down Truck Nutz Theory, Lincolnstein, and The Second Coming

    For weeks now, I've been toying with the idea of posting all of the achievements of George W. Bush on his last full day in office. Of course this was going to be satirical in nature. Noting things like how we haven't had a terrorist attack on our soil since 2001, despite the fact experts like Bob Gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    Grow up, Rudy Crew!

    For weeks now, I've been toying with the idea of posting all of the achievements of George W. Bush on his last full day in office. Of course this was going to be satirical in nature. Noting things like how we haven't had a terrorist attack on our soil since 2001, despite the fact experts like Bob Gr ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 17, 2008

    Toys for Tyrants

    A former artist turned ad man comes back, guns a-blazin'.

  • Calendar

    February 20, 2003

    Cross-Cultural Classic

    Que Pasa, USA? gets a spotlight

  • News

    March 15, 2001

    A No-Class Operation

    Something isn't right at Mays Middle School -- and it's not just because of that bomb threat

  • 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

    April 20, 2000

    The Sex Million Dollar Man

    You shelled out a lot of money to women who complained about principal Michael Exelbert. And you didn't even know it.

  • News

    October 29, 1998

    Jeb Repackaged

    You shelled out a lot of money to women who complained about principal Michael Exelbert. And you didn't even know it.

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    Don't Touch That Dial!

    Maria Staub is determined to make Teen Live Wire a hit radio show -- even if it destroys her family

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    News of the Weird

    Maria Staub is determined to make Teen Live Wire a hit radio show -- even if it destroys her family

  • News

    July 10, 1997

    Cause For Return

    Haitian radio host Marcus Garcia's work in Miami is done. It's time for him to go home.

  • News

    September 19, 1996

    The Old School of Power

    He has been enormously influential for 34 years, yet Pat Tornillo -- politically astute leader of Dade's teachers' union -- remains a mystery to most

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