Summer break is over, and if you’re a female student at Miami Arts Charter, you might want to stock up on pants. That’s because all skirts and dresses are now banned. But even pants options are tightly limited: No leggings, yoga pants or ripped jeans are allowed this year. Shorts are…
Not every child who walks into Maria Sanabria’s first-grade classroom at Orange Brook Elementary in Hollywood can read well. The kids are mostly from poor families, and roughly half of Orange Brook’s students don’t pass state standardized tests. Even at age 6, many have fallen behind. So Sanabria was excited…
An English-speaking teacher says Miami-Dade County School Board discriminated against her by not hiring her for a job. The position? Teaching an hour of Spanish per day. Tracy Rosner, a third-grade teacher at Coral Reef Elementary, filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida last week claiming employment…
Among Miami’s most prestigious high schools is the Marine Academy of Science and Technology, which is dedicated to giving gifted kids a rigorous education in the marine sciences. But according to one set of triplets who attended the school’s FIU campus in North Miami, MAST takes education so seriously that if…
There’s some bad news and some good news for debt-saddled graduates who paid a company called the Student Aid Center to help reduce their student loan debt. The bad news first: the Federal Trade Commission says the business was a scam. The good news? The FTC and Florida’s Attorney General…
The University of Miami’s Health System has a department dedicated to gender confirmation services for transgender individuals. “Our goal is to help… make your transition as comfortable and easy as possible,” reads the department’s website. Though, if patients who sought help at the center then enrolled as students at the…
Lack of belief doesn’t necessarily mean lack of anything to study. That’s the reasoning behind the University of Miami’s decision to establish what is believed to be the world’s first academic chair “for the study of atheism, humanism and secular ethics.” The school hasn’t publically announced it yet, but several key…
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign continues to cause problems for his Trump National Doral golf resort, especially when it comes to community relations. Some Miami-Dade Commissioners have called for a ban on official public business with any Trump-owned businesses. The Latin Builders Association pulled their 2015 gala from the resort. Relations…
Teachers of the year, they were not: one was accused of punching a 17-year-old girl who refused to have sex with him and the second, of sending inappropriate texts and nude photos to male students. Late last month, both Miami-Dade educators were banned from teaching in Florida ever again. The…
Unlike her husband Governor Rick Scott, Florida First Lady Ann Scott has mostly stayed out of controversy and out of the headlines. Unfortunately, an embarrassing mix-up lead to the low-key First Lady to read a passage from a book to fifth graders that described Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard back in the…
A typical student in Miami-Dade public schools is twice as likely to bump into a cop in the hallway than a school counselor. That’s one eye-opening revelation nonprofit group The 74 gleaned from a public records request to 10 of the country’s largest school districts, four of which are in Florida…
Don Festge, a hospitality and tourism teacher at Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High School in North Miami, had already been toying with the idea of running for office when he traveled to Tallahassee in January. It was Rep. Frank Artiles who pushed him into the fray. Unable to arrange a meeting…
Florida International University deserves a slow clap. On Friday, the school pulled off one of the funnier Miami-related April Fools Day pranks we’ve seen in a bit. In a video posted on their official Facebook page, the school proudly announced today a new major focus in Miami-studies, or, as it’s…
If Yale University decided to move down South, would it be known as Ya’ll University? Maybe we’ll find out in the unlikely event that the Ivy League school takes Governor Rick Scott’s advice and decides to move to Florida. Yes, Gov. Scott has actually publicly invited the 315-year-old university to…
Zika has put the spotlight on mosquito control in South Florida. And there’s nothing like a gnarly green pool to encourage mosquitoes to lay their little eggs. That’s why code inspectors county-wide are cracking down on negligent pool-owners. Among those caught in the crosshairs: None other than Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent…
Miami Beach, Florida and Flint, Michigan don’t have a lot in common. One is the country’s most impoverished and suffering cities. The other is billed as America’s paradise. But according to a new analysis from Apartment List, both are about the same when it comes to raising a young family. Which…
This past December 3, a somber 21-year-old with long blond hair stood on the limestone outdoor stage at the center of the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus. When her name was called, she approached the microphone and detailed a violent rape she said had occurred three years ago at…
University of Miami, a young person’s active retirement community that doubles as a respected University, has a new luxury feature for its weary students: two $9,000 high-tech napping pods in the University Center and Student Center. The futuristic alternative to sleeping in class are aimed tired commuter students, and delivered…
The University of Miami’s Delta Gamma chapter has gained something of a reputation for putting out some of the most luxurious-looking recruitment videos in the entire nation, but, dear Lord, have they really out down themselves this year. This year the girl enlisted the help of Artect Media, who not only…
For years the University of Miami has coasted along on a reputation as a relatively LGBT-friendly campus in a relatively LGBT-friendly city without actually having much infrastructure and services in place for its LGBT students. The ranking of UM as merely a three-star school when it comes to LGBT inclusiveness…
Students at Florida International University’s main Modesto A. Maidique Campus are on hinge after reports of threats made against the school swept through social media. Though, school officials have not verified the threat, they’ve alerted students to be cautious. Meanwhile, a student at the University of Miami reportedly threatened to…
U.S. News and World Reports has released their annual rankings of America’s best high schools, and Miami-Dade Schools pulled a lot of weight when it came to representing Florida on the list. Five Miami schools were ranked within the top 100 in the nation, which also means 5 of the…
