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Courtesy of Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners Media/At a time when state officials are restricting how race, identity and history can be taught, scores of students from across Miami-Dade County gathered to test their knowledge of the world's first Black republic. The Haitian History Bee is a celebration of culture and heritage that advocates say isn't taught enough in public schools. -
Viral TikToker and elementary school teacher Natalie Stuart joins host Carlos Frías to share how she uses dance and social media to connect to her students.
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The board is scheduled to meet Tuesday morning to narrow down choices for their next leader. -
Raegan Miller said local school officials' process to remove Amanda Gorman's poem, along with several books, lacked transparency and amounted to censorship.
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Precious Symonette is the founder of the Viking Freedom Writers. She tells us why the vocations of writer and educator go hand-in-hand.
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Republican Miami Mayor Francis Suarez talked at length about Florida’s newest immigration policies and the uptick in immigration across the country is directly affecting Miami-Dade County Public Schools. PolitiFact and WLRN explain that his claim is true.
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The Monroe County School District announced that two new principals would take over schools that are also their alma maters. It means that all three public high schools in the Florida Keys are run by educators who hold diplomas from the same schools they lead.
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Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz says local officials acted properly when they decided to restrict elementary students at a public school in Miami-Dade County from reading the poem recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The move came after a parent claimed the poem was 'indoctrinating' students.
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More than 20,000 new immigrant students have enrolled in Miami-Dade County Public Schools this year - more enrollments than the district saw after Hurricane Maria. The majority come from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, crisis-hit countries covered by Biden's new parole program.
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A frequent applicant, a Haitian-American, an internal candidate and leaders from Detroit and Houston: these are the profiles of the semifinalists in the search for the Broward County school district’s new superintendent.
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The comments came after Republican state Rep. Chip LaMarca called out the Broward County Library for being too political.
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The pool of semifinalists include an internal candidate, an administrator in neighboring Palm Beach County, and other career educators who have worked in Detroit, D.C. and Houston public schools.
