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Four facts about the headhunters leading PBC’s superintendent search
Palm Beach County School Board members agreed unanimously Wednesday to hire Ray and Associates, a veteran superintendent search firm based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Here are four things you should know...
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Should community panel help to choose PBC’s new schools chief?
Palm Beach County Schools Superintendent Wayne Gent is stepping down later this year. On the Palm Beach County School Board’s meeting agenda today: How much power to give a community panel that’s...
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Here’s the $50,000 expense tab that set off a PBC school board member
Palm Beach County School Board Vice Chairman Frank Barbieri. What was it about a contract that stuck in the craw of Palm Beach County School Board Vice Chairman Frank Barbieri Wednesday afternoon? An...
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Is Tampa’s school board ripping off Palm Beach County’s headhunting scheme?
Outgoing Superintendent E. Wayne Gent talks with students at The Conservatory School at North Palm Beach. Palm Beach County is plowing ahead quickly with its search for a new schools superintendent...
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Video: PBC teacher serenades superintendent with anti-testing ballad
Teacher Andy Goldstein sings to Superintendent Wayne Gent. Middle school teacher Andy Goldstein has been known to lighten the mood occasionally at Palm Beach County School Board meetings with witty...
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District OKs $1.5M to hire more sign language interpreters
Technology is great, but even with phones that can take dictation and applications that allow computers to speak the written word, real humans are still needed in the classroom when a student has a...
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Library of local black history wants to stay at Roosevelt Full Service Center
Roosevelt Full Service Center (Palm Beach Post file photo). An organization that works to preserve the history of West Palm Beach’s African-American community wants Palm Beach County School Board...
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Will proposed law to cut testing actually fix the problem?
Florida’s lawmakers have forwarded their plan for testing relief to Gov. Scott. But does it really relieve the problem so many parents and educators have been decrying? Let’s take it point by point....
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Education Commissioner blasts state’s school testing vendor
Pam Stewart, Aug. 2, 2013. (Photo: Florida Department of Education) Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart expressed her fury on Monday at the state’s test vendor, American Institutes for Research,...
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Avossa’s salary could make him highest paid superintendent in Florida
Robert Avossa UPDATE: Palm Beach County’s new schools superintendent would earn a base salary of $350,000 a year under a contract he negotiated with public school system officials, positioning him to...
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Palm Beach County School Board’s Barbieri skewers Education Commissioner:...
‘On what are you going to blame the next disruption? Solar flares? ‘ Florida’s Education Commissioner, Pam Stewart, may be furious with the vendor whose technical tinkering led to problems logging on...
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New Superintendent Robert Avossa: “I am a teacher at heart”
Robert Avossa, 43, is congratulated by school board member Debra Robinson after being named the new Superintendent of Schools for Palm Beach County Thursday afternoon. (Damon Higgins / The Palm Beach...
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Can Lee County eliminate high-stakes on Florida exams?
Can a school board really just decide on its own that it won’t count the results of the state’s end of course exams toward students grades? Florida’s Department of Education says: No. The calculation...
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These 4 Palm Beach County elementaries are getting new principals
It’s that time of year when the School Board starts getting ready for next school year and names new school principals. Wednesday, the board is set to approve these four moves: Del Prado Elementary...
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PBC School Board letter: This year’s test scores “will be meaningless”
Palm Beach County School Board members. Palm Beach County School Board members have never been shy about their disdain for Florida’s standardized test regimen. In fact, they went as far as to register...
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Reflections on PBC’s 2014-15 school year: superintendents, testing and a...
Today, the Palm Beach County school year comes to a close. And in the spirit of the final day, let’s review some of the year’s highlights. Charters: The school year started with the calculation that...
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PBC school board receives $2 million oil spill settlement from BP
The Palm Beach County public school system will receive $1.6 million from BP after suing the oil and gas company over its role in the April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The settlement...
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Exclusive: Avossa backs 10-day unpaid suspension for plagiarizing principal
West Boca High Principal Mark Stenner giving this year’s graduation speech. Schools Superintendent Robert Avossa will recommend that West Boca Raton High Principal Mark Stenner be suspended 10 days...
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Palm Beach County’s public schools want to use GPS to investigate employees
(File photo) Palm Beach County’s public school system wants to be able to use cell phones to track its workers’ movements, a new investigative power that it says would allow it to “monitor employees’...
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Spot check at 14 schools revealed missing cash at Bak, JFK; other agenda...
The school district’s Inspector General has submitted to the School Board its findings from a spot check of 14 schools examining how they handle their cash. The office dropped in unannounced at these...
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