Education

PARKLAND, FL-  MSD's Marching Band and Color Guard, the Eagle Regiment, celebrated the completion of another successful year at its annual banquet last week.

"Good morning and thank you to all in attendance last night at our annual banquet!" said Color Guard Director Dean Broadbent in a letter to the Eagle Regiment and its supporters. "It was such an amazing ...

PARKLAND, FL- A Stoneman Douglas student won her Congressional District's Art Competition in May and will have her artwork showcased at the National Capitol in Washington, D.C. Camila Escobar, an MSD senior, won the Congressional Art Competition for her piece called First Steps, which is depicts a young child taking her first steps with her grandfather. Though Escobar has always loved ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – He makes her lunch. And she designs his pants.

For 12 years, Jessica and Scott Goodman have worked next door to each other as teachers at J.P. Taravella High School in Coral Springs.

Jessica, 44, teaches fashion and design while Scott, 42, teaches culinary in a part of the school where trades are taught to hundreds of students each year.

Husband and wife ...

PARKLAND, FL- Broward County Public Schools will be hosting an award ceremony honoring kids and staff of character in the school district on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

Approximately 50 students and 20 staff from around Broward County are recognized at the ceremony, including two people from Parkland. Kiera Fletcher, a student at Heron Heights ...

PARKLAND, FL- Riverglades Elementary School will be hosting a Cultural Arts Night event at Riverglades school this evening, Friday, May 13, 2022 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m.

The event is free and will feature "student art galleries, interactive art kiosks for the kids to make their own artwork, the Riverglades music recital and more," according the Riverglades Facebook page.

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PARKLAND, FL- A meeting about the upcoming Holmberg Road project between Pine Island and Heron Bay Blvd. is being held next Thursday, May 12, 2022, at the Parkland Library at 6 p.m.

The project is aimed at improving traffic flow around Stoneman Douglas and between MSD and Westglades Middle School. The plan includes making the area more pedestrian-friendly and adding a turn lane to ...

PARKLAND, FL- Parkland and area Broward County residents will have a chance to learn about the new student-outcomes based approach to education that the state and county will be implementing next year. Parkland resident and School Board Member Lori Alhadeff will be among a number of key leaders on hand at the in-person event.

According to a statement released by Broward ...

PARKLAND, FL- On Tuesday, U.S. News & World Report released its ranking of the 2022 Best High Schools in every state in America. According to the ranking, Stoneman Douglas ranked 89th out of 1,079 high schools in the state of Florida. In last year's ranking, Stoneman Douglas was 70th in Florida.

Overall, Stoneman Douglas was number 1,494 out of nearly 24,000 total ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – The family of a 17-year-old who died trying to save a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in a Sunrise lake this week is remembering him as “a hero” who shared “his kindness with others in need of education or help.”

Aden Perry was trying to rescue the 18-year-old who plunged his car into the lake in the 1200 block of Silver Palm ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was one of two teens who died Tuesday after a car plunged into a canal in Sunrise.

MSD Principal Michelle Kefford sent a robocall to parents on Thursday confirming the student’s death and offering grief counselors at the school.

The incident happened in the Residences of Sawgrass Mills neighborhood around 11 ...