Essays Tagged: "Miami-Dade County, Florida"

Coalition vows legal battle over FCAT because students are not passing,students will not graduate with diploma

Curry and Democratic Senator Frederica Wilson.According to the FCAT scored,about 4,800 students in Miami-Dade and 1,500 in Broward county will receive certificates of completion instead of high schoo ... h school diplomas because they have yet to pass the FCAT.Furthermore,nearly 12,000 third graders in Miami-Dade and Broward counties may be prevented from moving up to the fourth grade due to their poo ...

(2 pages) 43 1 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Corporate Citizenship In Miami

orkforce, high illiteracy and slow language acquisition are common. Of the 2.1 million residents in Miami-Dade 66% are Hispanic, 21% Black and 13% White. Of this group of Hispanics more than 75% are e ... lems for the school system because of the necessity to teach children to be functionally bilingual. Miami-Dade has the highest unemployment rate, 7.2%, of any U.S. urban area. A devastating 1/3 of all ...

(4 pages) 13 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Miami School Negotiations

s Inc., 2009). This is not the best rating but it fares better than other cities in Florida. In the Miami-Dade County District Strategic Plan, it is lays out the recent achievements between 2004 and 2 ... i.about.comWeb site: http://miami.about.com/od/education/Education.htmCaputo, M (2008, December 8). Miami-Dade School Board lobbies tallahassee over spending.Retrieved March 15, 2009, from www.miamihe ...

(5 pages) 151 0 3.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Because of Winn Dixie

ut ten-year-old girl, Opal Buloni, and her father, a preacher, who move to a trailer park in Naomi, Florida. Missing home, her friends, and her mother quite terribly, adjustment to life in Naomi was n ...

(4 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

lady like

know any better.Gulliver Academy still stands to be one of the most prestigious private schools in Miami-Dade. The Kindergarten through 8th grade is divided into one campus, while the high school res ...

(4 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs