Three Miami-Dade high schools cracked the Top 100 in Newsweek’s annual high school ranking list, and they’re all charter schools. Newsweek actually split its rankings into two lists this year: a general top high schools list, and a list for the 100 best schools for low-income students. No Miami schools…
Rick Scott announced plans this morning to raise per student spending on education in the state to its highest levels ever. Interestingly, the announcement came just a week after likely Democratic challenger Charlie Crist criss-crossed the state in a yellow school bus reminding people how much Scott had slashed education…
Apparently the key to being as homosexual as you can possibly be is standardized math tests. Who knew? That’s what Florida state Rep. Charles Van Zant declared in a speech railing against the Common Core basic educational standards. As far as we know Common Core does not involve crazy things…
Only 20 percent of Florida’s 12th-graders in public schools are considered proficient at math. For those of you bad at math, that means only one out of five. For those of you really, really bad at math, pick your favorite member of One Direction and pretend he’s the only one…
Florida State University’s president is on his way out, and students are naturally concerned about what the departure might mean for their school. Except this time, the leadership transition also involves questions about the influence of oh, you know, conservative billionaire and Possibly the Most Reviled Political Donor in America…
Coral Reef Senior High Principal Adrianne Leal asked her teachers not to post anything on social media before President Obama visited her school last Friday. But for history teacher Randall Scott, holding back was not an option. The birther, who calls himself a “Republican Extremist,” wasn’t about to self-censor. This…
A crowd of twenty-somethings congregated in front of the Miami-Dade Courthouse last night adorned in black hoodies and somber faces. Wednesday marked the second anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin, the local teen whose shooting by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman sent shockwaves across the nation. And as Florida’s Stand…
Che Scott is a very good-looking man who has not had sex in 10 years. As a 21-year-old UM football player, Scott took a vow of abstinence. The now-minister and chaplain for the Heat doesn’t plan on sleeping with anyone again until he’s married, out of respect for his future…
Hundreds of school bus drivers didn’t show up to work today in Miami-Dade, leaving some students stranded at their bus stops. About one sixth of drivers decided to skip their duties today in a protest over pay and benefits…
University of Miami is top ten material, and we’re not talking about the football team. The Daily Beast compiled the stats on America’s sexiest colleges, and ol’ Suntan U came in at number eight…
A South Miami teacher is out of a job after she tried to make sure her students had a little too much fun after prom. Isabel Diaz-Almaraz, a teacher at South Miami High, allegedly rented a $1,000-a-night suite for students to party after prom and provided them with booze and…
If you’re looking to make good money right away right out of college in the state of Florida, you might be better off going to Florida International University than the University of Florida. In fact, FIU has a higher percentage of graduates who are working or continuing their education within…
The University of Miami Hurricanes left the University of Florida Gators stunned and defeated on the football field Sunday, but the school’s academic competition got a bit closer today. U.S. News & World Reports released its annual college rankings today. While UM fell three spots, UF rose five spots, leaving…
Local students are just in their third week of classes for the year, but one local 12-year-old has already found himself expelled and his family is none to pleased. So as punishment, the boy’s mother made him stand outside alongside a road holding a sign touting the fact…
Carme Chacón, one of Spain’s most high-profile female politicians, threw the country’s capital a curveball today by announcing that she will be giving up her parliamentary seat to come teach for a year at Miami-Dade College of all places. Chacón served as Spain’s Minister of Defense from 2008 to 2011,…
Earlier this week the Princeton Review named, of all colleges, the University of Iowa as America’s most party happy school. While Florida State and University of Florida made the top 10, the University of Miami, once the undisputed party school champion of the world back in the ’80s, was no…
It wasn’t just major MLB players Tony Bosch was supplying to from his Biogenesis clinic. There’s new allegations that he might have counted high school athletes as clients. So now the Florida High School Athletics Associations promises to review its rules related to PED use and may even institute random…
Colin McGinn, a high-profile philosophy professor at the University of Miami and author of a book called Mindfucking, was forced to resign from his post earlier this summer after a female doctoral student accused him of sexual harassment. McGinn has since tried to downplay the incident by trying to philosophically…
Every incoming University of Miami freshmen must either pledge their allegiance to the studious kingdom of Stanford where they will be surrounded by intellectual nerds who do nothing but study or the wild land of Hecht which is home to drunken hedonists. Just kidding. Their identical (and quite ugly) pairs…
Project MPACT was supposed to keep Miami-Dade students from dropping out and joining gangs by paying them to build affordable, energy-efficient homes. You know, teaching them the value of good, honest work, like in “Stand and Deliver” or “Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.” Instead, auditors and criminal investigators…
Last week, St. Theresa Catholic School crushed cross-town rivals Coral Gables Prep to win the Miami-Dade Geography Bee. Yes, we know, this news does not make up for the Pacers edging out the Heat last night. But before you go back to sticking pins in your Roy Hibbert voodoo doll,…
Miami’s School for Advanced Studies has finally cracked the top ten of Newsweek’s annual America’s Best High School list, coming in at sixth this year. That would make it Florida’s second-best public high school amongst a top ten list that is surprisingly Sunshine State heavy…
