A new education bill passed in July put time constraints on consistent D- and F-rated public schools to raise their letter grades, close, or convert to charter schools, leaving Metcalfe Elementary School with three years to make significant changes.
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Roberto Zurbano, a Cuban activist and cultural investigator discusses racism that black Cubans experience in their country.
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The achievement gap in reading school performance between east and west elementary schools in Gainesville have widened over the past 15 years.
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“When you know there are kids out there who are living in a tent, you just can’t help but want to help them.”
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The first meeting Monday at the Alachua County Headquarters Library was attended by maybe 80 people and centered around its first book, "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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The Southwest Advocacy Group's child care and early education center sets out to minimize Alachua County's learning gap.
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The SWAG Family Resource Center provides services to residents of poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Through educational opportunities, employment assistance and childcare programs, the non-profit organization helps communities that are bare of opportunity.
Read More »"In His Own Home" is a documentary about the police shooting of University of Florida graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong. The film's director spoke with WUFT about how the 2010 incident relates to current national issues.
Read More »A new report released today(Tuesday) shows troubling findings among black male students in public schools. According to the report, the gap between black male students and everyone else is widening. Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Jason Hackett has more on a program at the University of Florida, which is trying to help. …
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