FORT LAUDERDALE
High school sports teams can continue to play football at Lockhart Stadium, and the professional Strikers soccer team can stay as well.
A last-minute deal with the Federal Aviation Administration will allow the sporting events to continue at the stadium next to the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport for six more months. The reprieve allows the city time to negotiate with developers to build a water park resort there.
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“This was a community issue,” Mayor Jack Seiler said Tuesday as the city accepted the terms of the new deal.
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The moment I heard Associate Professor Jabari Asim read “Zombies” at a graduate faculty reading hosted by Emerson’s Writing, Literature, and Publishing (WLP) department last February, his collection A Taste of Honey: Stories earned the next spot on my ever-growing reading list.
Asim kept me engaged in the story with the vivacious energy he projected in his voice while reading, but what really caught my attention were the elements he used which, to me, make fiction good—conflict, strong voice, and a complex character, all delivered with a subtle dose of humor. And that
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Northside ISD board member Bobby Blount (far right) stands with John Folks, Northside’s superintendent (far left) and others during the book release event June 10, 2011. Photo by Francisco Vara-Orta
Required summer reading for local eduwonks just hit the shelves.
On Friday, the Bexar County School Boards Coalition celebrated the release of a book chronicling the history, facts and figures of 20 area school districts titled, “Public Education in Bexar County.”
The coalition of local school board members formed in 2005 and coalition president Bobby Blount, also a board member for Northside Independent School District, spearheaded the book project.
“If we’re all going to help education out, the key is having the correct information,” said Blount at the book release party Friday.
The book has enrollment and employment statistics for the 20 districts along with district profiles and the reasons each was originally formed. It also c
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The high school season officially ended earlier this week with the various OFSAA competitions.
However, high school students will continue to be athletes over the summer months. Ill try to stay on top of the competitions and accomplishments but a little help is always appreciated. Feel free to fire me an email at if something comes up.
Also, Id like to talk with any athlete heading to a post-secondary institution on an athletic scholarship. Anyone?
This blog will be shut down for the summer once all the various all-star teams are announced.
I wanted to take this opportunity to address the concerns raised in recent media reports about the credit recovery at North High School.
The issues raised in the report are very serious ones, and we are actively investigating the claims and reviewing our overall credit-recovery procedures. Should we find violations of our guidelines or ethical standards or the need to implement clearer or stronger policies, we will take action to ensure the integrity and rigor of that program and all of our programs.
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