Active tuberculosis case confirmed in student at Dillard High School

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 30, 2025. Posted in Education, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Health, Latest Headlines, Local News, News.

An active tuberculosis case has been reported in a student at Dillard High School, the Florida Department of Health confirmed to Broward County Public School officials on Tuesday. The person was “recently on campus,” and health department officials in Broward County began notifying students who could have potentially been exposed, John Sullivan, a spokesperson for Broward County Public Schools, said in a statement Tuesday evening. Students and staff who were impacted were directly contacted. On Wednesday, the health department will offer testing at the Fort Lauderdale school for impacted...

Florida Board of Education member advocates for arming college students

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 24, 2025. Posted in Education, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Students and professors should carry guns as a way to defend against campus shootings, a former Broward County School Board member and current state Board of Education member wrote in a new essay. The opinion piece by Daniel Foganholi, a frequent appointee of Gov. Ron DeSantis for education-related boards, was published Wednesday by Spectator World, a conservative publication. It’s titled, “Let students and professors carry guns to class. We owe them their God-given right to self-defense.” “It’s time to get real: gun-free zones do not protect our students — they turn them into...

Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 20, 2025. Posted in Education, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By COLLIN BINKLEY and CHRIS MEGERIAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity before an announcement. Trump has derided the Department of Education as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. However, finalizing its dismantling is likely impossible without an act of Congress, which created...

As FAU presidential search nears end, here’s why political clout could figure in

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on February 7, 2025. Posted in Education, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Politics.

Florida colleges and universities appear to have a new preferred qualification in their search for a president: experience as a Republican politician. By Monday, three major educational institutions in South Florida may have welcomed a high-profile Republican as their new president. Florida Atlantic University will decide whether to choose former House Majority Leader Adam Hasner from among the three finalists for its new president. Two other finalists also will be interviewed. Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez is expected be hired on Friday as Florida International University’s interim president,...

‘Sharks’ vet pitches from entrepreneurs at FAU. See who scored a deal

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 6, 2024. Posted in Business, Education, Entertainment, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, National News, News, Things To Do.

Three prominent investor-judges from “Shark Tank,” television’s high court of American entrepreneurship, descended on Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton to hear pitches from hopeful local innovators in search of financial backing. The visiting judges for the so-called “CrocTank” event, sponsored by Noble Capital Markets of Boca Raton, included Canadian venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary, a.k.a “Mr. Wonderful,” FUBU apparel founder Daymond John, and cyber-tech entrepreneur Robert Herjavec, also from Canada. The contest was a wrap-up event of a two-day financial investment conference...

Florida school districts to offer training to parents on false threats to schools

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 21, 2024. Posted in Education, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — Florida education leaders want parents to be reminded annually that they can face consequences if their children report false threats of violence. The State Board of Education on Wednesday approved a rule change that will require school districts to make training available to parents and guardians on the use of FortifyFL, an app where anonymous tips can be submitted about suspicious activities. Students already receive such training. The training outlines potential fallout for students who make threats or false reports. “Parents need to understand that all threats will be...

Moms for Liberty chapter gets win in Florida school board case

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 9, 2024. Posted in Education, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — A federal appeals court Tuesday backed a chapter of the group Moms for Liberty in a constitutional challenge to Brevard County School Board policies that placed restrictions on speakers at board meetings. A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said policies targeted at “abusive,” “obscene” and “personally directed” speech violated the First Amendment. The panel overturned a decision by U.S. District Judge Roy Dalton. “For many parents, school board meetings are the front lines of the most meaningful part of local government — the education of their children,” said...

Democrats to DeSantis: Reverse course on ‘harmful’ sex-education restrictions in schools

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 4, 2024. Posted in Education, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, News, Politics.

Florida should reverse course on its “harmful” abstinence-only requirements for public school health classes and allow schools to teach a comprehensive sex education curriculum, according to a letter sent to state leaders Thursday from seven Democrats serving in Congress. “Abstinence-only programs have been consistently proven ineffective, damaging to students’ health, and discriminatory against the LGBTQ+ community,” read the letter from the Florida congressional members. “This directive is another extremist attack on evidence-based, data-driven policies.” The letter was sent to Gov. Ron...

New list identifies 9 Broward schools that could be closed or changed

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 18, 2024. Posted in Education, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Nine Broward schools could be the focus of dramatic changes next year, with some possibly facing closure, under a new proposal from Superintendent Howard Hepburn to deal with underenrollment. Hepburn presented five schools to the School Board on Tuesday that could be candidates to be closed or repurposed in some way, such as becoming a new type of school or office space. They are: Broward Estates Elementary in Lauderhill, North Fork Elementary in Fort Lauderdale, Silver Lakes Elementary in Miramar, Silver Shores Elementary in Miramar and Olsen Middle in Dania Beach. He also proposed making...

Union feud escalates to a Broward schools investigation

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 12, 2024. Posted in Education, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Broward Schools Superintendent Howard Hepburn has agreed to conduct a “thorough investigation” into how an internal spat within the Broward Teachers Union nearly resulted in a school employee getting suspended. The dispute between Jimmy Witherspoon, a steward for the Broward Teachers Union, and union President Anna Fusco made its way up the School Board and superintendent’s office, resulting in a lengthy discussion during Tuesday’s School Board meeting. Witherspoon, a college and career adviser at Dillard 6-12 in Fort Lauderdale, told the School Board on Tuesday that Broward sheriff’s...

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