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The University of Miami's Global Entrepreneurship Week starts Monday with speeches, panels and networking for people who want to start businesses.

Florida's Board of Education has approved more-rigorous measures for evaluating high schools beyond test scores, adding such factors as graduation rates and participation in accelerated course work.

For the second year in a row, Broward is one of five urban school districts in the country hoping to win a prestigious $1 million education prize.

Miami-Dade's school tax rate goes up slightly, but the budget is balanced without teacher layoffs.

Language experts say that most children build the foundation for their vocabularies between birth and age 3, as a result of parents talking to and with them.

Faced with complaints from parents and students about racial insensitivity, state and local education officials have dropped the word negro from a racial background formthat went out to every Broward public school student the first day of school.

The number of pupils who receive free or reduced-cost school meals is expected to reach a four-decade high.

Next week, more than 1.3 million students will descend upon the campuses of Florida's public universities, community colleges and private colleges for the start of fall classes. 

When Frank Brogan becomes state university chancellor, he'll make slightly less than he did as president of Florida Atlantic University.