Spanish River High School PTSA Hosts Its First Education Expo
On Tuesday, October 5, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM, the Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) invites the community to attend the PTSA’s first Education Expo at Spanish River High School Media Center, 5100 Jog Road, Boca Raton.
All are invited to attend the PTSA’s first Education Expo to find out about the educational services [...]
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Boynton Beach High School Students Sponsor Other Students In Developing Nations
Boynton Beach High School students have teamed with the International Sponsorship program EDUCATION ROCKS! to help 53 students from Bali, Indonesia and 11 students from Ethiopia to go to school. The students from Boynton Beach High School have taken on this project to make a difference in the lives of other children.
EDUCATION ROCKS! is a [...]
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West Boca Raton High Business Partner Selected National Outstanding Service Award Winner
J.C. Perrin, Business Partner and Advisory Board member to West Boca Raton Community High School, has been selected to receive the 2010 Carl Perkins Outstanding Service Award from the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) during the General Session at the ACTE Convention and Career Tech Expo on Friday, December 3, 2010, in Las [...]
School District Of Palm Beach County Team To Walk In Support Of Families Of Children With Down Syndrome
On Sunday, October 17, 2010 at John Prince Park, Lake Worth Center Drive Pavilion, the Buddy Walk will give an opportunity to everyone to walk, or support a walker, to raise funds for the Gold Coast Down Syndrome Organization.
A team from the School District of Palm Beach County, chaired by Ms. Laura E. Pincus, Director [...]
Acreage Pines Elementary Celebrates Peace Week
Acreage Pines Elementary School has organized a series of events to celebrate Peace Week, September 20th – 24th. The goal is to create a peaceful school in which students, staff, and parents work together to ensure that everyone feels safe, valued, and respected.
The activities include:
Monday – Friday
Students will be presenting famous Peace Makers during the [...]
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Representative Mark Pafford Visit H.L. Johnson Elementary
Representative Mark Pafford (D-West Palm Beach) visited H.L. Johnson Elementary School in Royal Palm Beach recently to talk to 160 5th grade students about how their ideas count. Rep. Pafford led a discussion on civics as part of America’s Legislators Back to School Program.
The program is part of a nationwide effort to educate young people [...]
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Golden Grove Elementary Participates In Shoe Drive
To help kick off the new school year on the right foot, Golden Grove Elementary School, along with members of Christ Fellowship Church, participated in a shoe drive for the students at Glade View Elementary School in Belle Glade.
Approximately, 169 pairs of brand new shoes were collected and donated to Glade View Elementary. Linda Edgecomb, [...]
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Middle School Students Take Challenge In Constitution Day Essay Contest
Palm Beach County Middle School students recently participated in a Constitution Day essay contest which challenged students to explain, in 500 words or less, which right in the Bill of Rights is the most important and why. More than 250 students entered the contest. The West Palm Beach law firm of McCabe Rabin, P.A. hosted [...]
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Pine Jog Elementary Finalist For The Governor’s Green Schools Award
Pine Jog Elementary has been selected as one of the finalists for the Governor’s Serve to Preserve: Green Schools Award, which recognizes the environmental achievements of students, teachers, classrooms, schools and school districts throughout the state.
Nominees and finalists from K-12 schools will be recognized in the several categories. The ceremony will take place on Tuesday, [...]
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Boynton High Students And Faculty Partner With Galaxy And Poinciana Elementary Schools
On Wednesday, September 15, 2010, Boynton Beach Community High faculty and students welcomed fifth grade students from Galaxy and Poinciana elementary schools for a “View of High School.” The fifth graders earned the trip by scoring a 4 or higher on their Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) Writes last spring.
As the students exited the school [...]
Everglades Elementary Receives $3000 Nutrition And Fitness Grant
The Child Nutrition and Fitness Breakfast Grant, funded by General Mills in cooperation with America’s Dairy Farmers awarded a $3000 Child Nutrition and Fitness Initiative Breakfast Grant to Everglades Elementary School. The purpose is to help improve student access to high-quality, nutritious foods at school.
This grant program targets breakfast and provides funds to help schools [...]
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Career Day For Finance Academy Students Takes Place
Over a hundred Finance Academy students watched the sale of a $115 million dollar Tax Anticipation Note (TAN), September 21st in the boardroom at School District headquarters. High school seniors from the Finance Academies at William T. Dwyer High, John I. Leonard High, Olympic Heights High as well as students from the Entrepreneur Academy at Spanish [...]
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Office Depot Supports Two Local Schools With $1,000 Gift
Office Depot announced five schools that have been named Office Depot’s 2010 Cool School of the Year! As part of Office Depot’s Back to School campaign, associates across North America were asked to submit entries on behalf of a student in their life that explains why their school deserves to be named Cool School of [...]
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Palm Beach County Educators Honored For Literacy Efforts
Gisele Lowe, Just Read, Florida! Region 5 High School Coach of the Year and Brenda Darr, Just Read, Florida! Region 5 Middle School Coach of the Year were recently honored at the Florida Reading Association Conference in Orlando. The Reading Coach of the Year awards recognize expertise in literacy and the ability to effectively deliver [...]
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Beacon Cove Intermediate Teacher Selected As A Florida Finalist For National Award
Nancy Bourne, a 3rd grade teacher at Beacon Cove Intermediate School in Jupiter has been selected as a finalist for Florida in the 2010 Presidential Awards of Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. The national winner will be announced in Washington in the spring.
The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching are the [...]
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Record Number Of Schools Receive Five Star Award
The Florida Department of Education has designated 82 Palm Beach County schools Five Star Award winners. The Five Star Award is presented annually to those schools that have shown evidence of exemplary community involvement. To qualify, a school must have achieved 100% of the criteria in the categories of business partnerships, family involvement, volunteers, student [...]
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Friendships Begun In Elementary School Continue As Group Gives Back To The Community
Jerry Thomas Elementary in Jupiter has been the fortunate recipient of school supplies and backpacks from Operation Backpack 2010. At the beginning of the school year, six high school students arrived at the school with a carload of new backpacks filled with crayons, paper, scissors, markers, glue sticks, colored pencils, calculators and notebooks. The group [...]
Olympic Heights High School Teachers Receive Grant To Purchase Books For Improving Students’ Reading Proficiency
Olympic Heights Community High School reading teachers, Abbe Snyder and Christina Hessing, received a $2500.00 grant from the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce’s Golden Bell Foundation to be used to purchase books for classroom libraries.
The grant monies will be used to supplement the reading teachers’ classroom libraries. As reading students are required to read 300 [...]
Fifty Palm Beach County Public School Students Named Semifinalists In 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program
Fifty Palm Beach County public school students were among the 16,000 Semifinalists in the 56th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,400 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $36 million, that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a [...]
Students and Legal Community Honor The Constitution
The Constitution was in the spotlight as Student Government Association (SGA) students from throughout the county and distinguished members of the legal community held a Constitution Day celebration at Spanish River High School in Boca Raton. The Palm Beach Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) presented the First Annual James Otis Lecture which [...]
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School Community Wears Purple To Show Support For Student With Pancreatic Cancer
Students, teachers and staff at Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary in Palm Beach Gardens are wearing purple to show support for Denali Botolino. The 3rd grade student was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer during Spring Break this past March.
Since Denali was diagnosed the school community has rallied to support him and his family. Parents, staff, and administration of the school [...]
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Boca Raton Middle Students’ Map Presentation Wins ‘Best In Show’ At The 2010 South Florida GIS Expo
Boca Raton Middle Students under the leadership of their teacher Susan Oyer won ‘Best in Show’ at the 2010 South Florida Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Expo.
The South Florida Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Expo is an annual conference sponsored by the Palm Beach Countywide GIS Forum. The South Florida GIS Expo serves as a way to [...]
School District of Palm Beach County Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico declared its independence on September 16 and Chile on September 18. In an effort to continue this tradition, the School District of Palm Beach County has developed a series [...]
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Turning Point Academy’s Open House Features Notable Judge
What do community agencies, business partners, a former chief judge of Palm Beach County’s Circuit Court have in common with the folks at Turning Point Academy? They’re all working together with the staff and parents to ensure the success of the students at the school! Their recent Open House/Orientation Night featured Judge Kathleen [...]
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The Education Network (T.E.N.) To Air “Fowòm Edikasyon Kominotè” To Provide Information To Haitian Parents About Schools
Palm Beach County’s Haitian Creole community is one of the fastest growing in our schools and county. The Education Network (TEN) will start airing in the month of September “Fowòm Edikasyon Kominotè” (Community Education Forum), a TV series that will provide important information to the Haitian community about education issues and programs, activities and opportunities at [...]
