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  Florida Teachers Repeatedly Misuse Guns, but Lawmakers Want to Arm Them Anyway

  April 10 at 12:16 p.m.

  Besides the public's opposition to arming teachers, there's plenty of evidence it can be downright dangerous. New Times has identified a litany of troubling incidents involving Florida educators and guns, including many that have gone previously unreported.

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  Adjunct Professors at Miami Dade College, America's Largest Undergrad College, Are Unionizing

  March 28 at 9 a.m.

  The livelihoods of college professors have gotten increasingly precarious over the last few decades. Universities keep cutting nonscience programs and offering fewer professorships while hiring more teachers as "adjuncts," who make just a few thousand dollars per class, per semester. A recent report from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) found that 70 percent of Florida public-university professors are now adjuncts.

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  Florida Bill Could Force Public Teacher Pay Raises to Go to Charter Schools, Union Warns

  February 21 at 8:28 a.m.

  In 2018, Miami-Dade County residents passed a ballot initiative that gave a $232 million pay raise to public schoolteachers. That seemed logical since Florida teachers rank among the lowest-paid educators in America. While the ballot's language clearly stated the raise was supposed to go to public schools only, Florida's...

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  Miramar Teacher Called Haiti "the Hood," Said Poor Students "Drink From Sewers"

  February 15 at 8:38 a.m.

  More than 10,000 people of Haitian ancestry live in Miramar, a city with the fifth-highest Haitian population in Florida. Naturally, the local public schools have a large number of Haitian students — after the devastating 2010 earthquake on the island, Miramar High School took in 46 Haitian refugees, more than...

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  Florida Bill Would Give College Financial Aid to DACA Kids and Refugees

  January 25 at 9:43 a.m.

  As it stands, not every child who grows up in Florida gets access to the state's full slate of college financial-aid packages. If you're born in the United States, you qualify for everything, from the state's Bright Futures scholarship programs to a whole host of other grants. But if you're...

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  Raped by a Student, Teacher Could Receive $3 Million

  Wednesday, December 26, 2018 at 9:05 a.m.

  It's all in a claims bill.