The Nike 7-on-7 Championships will be held Saturday at Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah, beginning at 8 a.m.
Blanche Ely, Coral Springs, Dillard, Flanagan, Hallandale and McArthur advanced to the finals from Broward County, while Dwyer, Jupiter Christian and Palm Beach Gardens from the north also made it.
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The championship is scheduled for 3 p.m.
SCHEDULE FOR NIKE 7-ON-7 CHAMPIONSHIPS
SATURDAY JULY 9, 2011
8:00 A.M.
Field 1) Jupiter Christian vs. Read more…
From the way former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney answered an education question at a recent town hall meeting in New Hampshire, he implied that he’s not a big fan of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
But whether this GOP presidential candidate would just take a backseat to the effort, or try to thwart it, is an open question.
At the June 3 town hall, an audience member asked him to address the “national takeover” of public schools, and specifically to address the Common Core and the resulting common tests that are being developed.
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The latest hacking allegations about the News of the World have led some to call this a tipping point for UK newspapers – downwards.
But another event today may also contribute to that drift: the launch of a British edition of the hugely successful US news website and aggregating blog the Huffington Post (above).
Styling itself “The Internet Newspaper: News, Blogs, Video, Community”, HuffPo, as it’s widely known, has grown from humble beginnings barely six years ago to be the 93rd-biggest website globally in terms of traffic and visitors – only a few places behind the venerable New York Times. (
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Slowly, but surely, more details are starting to come out about U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s plans to grant states waivers under the No Child Left Behind Act in exchange for a “basket of reforms.”
Here are highlights from a conference call with reporters Monday, his second on the subject:
On his executive authority: Duncan says Section 9401 of the No Child Left Behind law gives him “pretty clear” authority to not only grant waivers, but to demand a “basket of reforms” in return. And, importantly, Duncan emphasized that these reforms will not be available “a la carte” style, in which states could pick and choose. States would have to embrace all of Duncan’s reforms to get their relief.
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A bill to allow concealed handguns on campus was postponed Thursday after a couple of hours of debate.
State Sen. Jeff Wentworth, the bill’s author, asked to take the bill up on Monday after fellow senators expressed reservations about amendments and the timing of the debate.
Sen. Eddie Lucio, D-Brownsville, said Wentworth had broken a promise to hold the bill until Monday so that he could talk to his constituents about an amendment that would carve out an exemption for K-12 academies located on college campuses.
Sens. Royce West, D-Dallas, and Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, said they think public universities ought to be able to choose whether they allow guns on campus, just like private schools will be able to under the bill. T
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