Broward’s high schools are considering an unusual approach to try to increase student achievement — reduce the number of days students are in school. The reason: The school district’s most academically successful high school, Pompano Beach High, offers classes four days a week, Monday to Thursday. Students still attend the number of hours required by the state each week, but they do that by .
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Broward County and Fort Lauderdale sure know how to celebrate another fancy new building. They should, because they’ve had so much experience at it. Judges, politicians and movers and shakers turned out Wednesday for a long-awaited groundbreaking for the new federal courthouse, just south of downtown Fort Lauderdale. Politicians did their usual shtick of wearing hard hats and turning over .
McKenzie Jewell of Coral Springs had a historic High School career playing multiple sports for Pompano Beach High School and is officially committed to attending Eastern Florida State College to play softball.
On Wednesday, Earlean Smiley started a second tenure with the district, this time as interim superintendent. She vows to discover what has gone wrong and needs to be fixed, as well as what is still going right.