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  1. Nancy Graham is sworn in as the superintendent of Lee County Public Schools during a ceremony on Wednesday in Fort Myers. AMANDA INSCORE/THE NEWS-PRESS

    Nancy Graham sworn in as the superintendent of Lee County Public Schools

    When Nancy Graham looked at the sea of faces while reciting the superintendent’s oath of office, she felt she was surrounded by friends. Graham officially came home to Lee County, where the majority of her education career has centered, to officially become the schools superintendent Wednesday evening.

    • Jun. 19, 2013
  2. Gateway Charter High School N-P Staff

    Gateway Charter High tells students to drop online classes

    Florida's main online school has been forced to tell worried parents and students that they aren't about to get charged for failing to complete courses.

    • Jun. 19, 2013
  3.  Gareth Rockliffe

    FGCU's president gets raise, some praise

    Wilson Bradshaw pockets hefty $17,943 pay increase, $80,000 bonus after stellar review.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  4. Nancy Graham

    Lee County superintendent's contract OK'd

    The Lee County School Board voted unanimously to approve Nancy Graham's contract to take over as the district's superintendent.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  5.  thinkstock.com

    Taxpayers pay millions for fed workers' student loans

    The perk was designed to make government jobs more appealing to those who might earn more in the private sector. But a debate is brewing about whether it's due for the chopping block.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  6. FGCU president earns rave review, pay raise and bonus

    FGCU President Wilson Bradshaw is performing at a very high level, according to the Board of Trustees.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  7. In this April 21, 2013 photo, Kimari Barden, left, 7, and Nakeya Beberly, 7, work on their addition problems projected on a dry erase board in the classroom of teacher Pamara English at Brenda Scott School in Detroit. Union officials say teachers at a struggling school district are not being paid, even though the state released aid to district to ensure it could make payroll. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Max Ortiz)  DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT AP

    Report: Too many teachers, too little quality

    The nation's teacher-training programs do not adequately prepare would-be educators for the classroom, even as they produce almost triple the number of graduates needed, according to a survey of more than 1,000 programs released Tuesday.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  8.  suncoastfcu.org

    Suncoast Schools FCU Foundation Awards $80,000 in Scholarships

    TAMPA – Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union Foundation announces its higher education scholarship recipients. This year marks the largest amount of awarded scholarship money since 1992, when the foundation began providing need and merit-based scholarships to graduating high school seniors, a news release said.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  9.  www.fgcu.edu

    FGCU trustees avoid tuition increase

    A little known state law requiring Florida universities to raise tuition to match the consumer price index has college leaders debating rates for 2013-14.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  10. Nancy Graham

    Lee schools superintendent's deal gets vote today

    Lee County School Board members will consider a contract today for interim Superintendent Nancy Graham.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  11. Joseph Burke

    Burke plans low-key last day as Lee schools superintendent

    On Wednesday, retiring Lee Superintendent Joseph Burke will sign off on a number of documents. He'll make some phone calls to people in the community to thank them for their support.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  12. Nancy Graham is currently the principal at Naples High School and is one of four candidates for the position of Lee County schools' superintendent. Marc Beaudin/news-press.com

    New Lee School District interim Superintendent Nancy Graham's contract details

    Lee County school board will consider a contract proposal tomorrow that offers the new superintendent $169,000. The negotiated contract, which has been signed by interim Superintendent Nancy Graham, would give her an annual salary of $169,000 once she’s sworn-in Wednesday evening.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  13. Retiring from the Lee School District Wednesday, Burke feeling nostalgic

    In his last few days as Superintendent of Lee Schools, Joseph Burke said he's feeling "nostalgic, even a little sad about leaving." Burke is retiring from the district Wednesday. The same day that interim Superintendent Nancy Graham is sworn-in to the position.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  14. Sunday Chalkboard: Perfect FCAT scores weren't too hard to find in Lee

    Fifty thousand kids in Florida scored perfect on the state exam, or Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, and End-of-Course exams of which 438 were students from Lee County.

    • Jun. 15, 2013
  15. Southwest Florida College graduation Dave Breitenstein/news-press.com\

    Southwest Florida College honors graduates today

    Southwest Florida College is issuing diplomas and degrees today to 437 graduates, nearly half of which studied at the Fort Myers campus.

    • Jun. 15, 2013
  16. Nancy Graham

    Interim Lee schools superintendent's contract not quite finished

    With four days left before former Naples High Principal Nancy Graham is sworn-in as Lee schools new district leader, school officials are awaiting details of her contract. Graham is replacing retiring Superintendent Joseph Burke, who leaves the district Wednesday. Graham will be sworn-in at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the district’s public education center.

    • Jun. 14, 2013
  17. Flavio Lopez, the son of a Mexican immigrant mother, was awarded a full scholarship to Brown University. Andrew West/news-press.com

    LaBelle High School graduate hurdles obstacles to land in Ivy League

    Flavio Lopez is one of 175 students in his 250-member class to go to college. As far as anyone in the school’s guidance office knows, he’s the first kid from the 4,600-person city in rural Hendry County, where 9 percent of adults have bachelor’s degrees and 26 percent live below the poverty line, to make it to the Ivy League.

    • Jun. 13, 2013
  18. Tight budgets threaten resource for Lee County schools

    Counselor positions are often cut to help district meet state class-size mandates.

    • Jun. 13, 2013
  19. My favorite photo of the day came during the aforementioned cleanup period. Every child in this image has an object in their hands, and is actually using it. I wonder if they do that at home, too. And if so, can I borrow them? Dave Breitenstein/news-press.com

    Chalkboard blog: A clean sweep at Koyodai

    Tuesday morning at Koyodai Elementary, located in the Tokyo suburb of Inagi, started off like a normal school day: Japanese and math for a first-grade class, and a double-block of science for a fourth-grade class I visited.

    • Jun. 11, 2013
  20. My favorite photo of the day wasn’t of a university student, rather a young boy and his father on campus. The boy was climbing a tree, but got to a point of no return and wanted down. It took longer to get down than it did to climb up the tree. Dave Breitenstein/news-press.com

    Chalkboard blog: Studying in English in Japan

    Plenty of U.S. colleges offer degrees in environmental sciences. Big universities, small universities and private universities have them, and even Florida Gulf Coast University offers environmental studies.

    • Jun. 10, 2013

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