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— College Won’t Accept Graduate Because School Is Not Accredited<\/a><\/p>\n

“A teen from southwest Miami-Dade County just graduated from high school a few weeks ago, but she has discovered her diploma isn’t valid. […] The 18-year-old spent the past two years taking classes at Il Savior Academy. But when she applied to Miami-Dade College, she discovered her diploma wasn’t valid.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— PEACE camp offers students lots of summer fun and learning<\/a><\/p>\n

“This is the best way for kids to learn science \u00e2\u20ac\u201d getting them out of the book and into the world,” said Chris Nehr, PEACE program instructor and Bayonet Point Middle English teacher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— University to allow students to rent drones from library<\/a><\/p>\n

“These are not by any stretch of the imagination intended for just anybody to walk up and check out,” Garrison says. “They’re not for filming parties on campus and things like that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Ruse, FSU’s ‘public intellectual,’ refuses to slow down<\/a><\/p>\n

“The issue that put Ruse on the map, as it were, is his unwavering defense of Darwinism and his opposition to teaching creationism in public schools. He was one of the star witnesses (along with Stephen Jay Gould) in the 1981 landmark test case McLean v. Arkansas, which resulted in that state’s creation science curriculum being declared unconstitutional.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— College Won’t Accept Graduate Because School Is Not Accredited “A teen from southwest Miami-Dade County just graduated from high school a few weeks ago, but she has discovered her diploma isn’t valid. 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