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Program gives disabled students work experience

PALM COAST -- Several days a week, Matthew Ackerman visits Flagler Technical Institute to learn a variety of skills, including computer maintenance. Ackerman, 19, who attends Flagler Palm Coast High School part time, uses what he learns by assisting ...

From KENYA WOODARD, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  17 Nov 2009

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Parents of injured child sue school district

BUNNELL -- The parents of a boy who was injured when he fell last spring from playground equipment at a Flagler County school are now suing the district. According to a suit filed last month in Flagler County, the son of Ehab Hashem and Omnya Abrahim ...

From KENYA WOODARD, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  6 Nov 2009

Flagler parents get advice on talking with kids

PALM COAST -- Parenting is a "dirty job" but adopting good communication skills -- like listening, making eye contact and paying attention -- can help make it easier. Licensed psychotherapist Imani Sankoffa told a group of 50 parents, guardians and ...

From KENYA WOODARD, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  30 Oct 2009

Killer of elderly neighbors gets death penalty

BUNNELL -- A Palm Coast man convicted in the 2000 beating and stabbing deaths of his elderly neighbors was sentenced to death by a judge Wednesday. Circuit Judge Kim Hammond upheld a jury's recommendation that David Snelgrove, 36, return to death row ...

From KENYA WOODARD, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  29 Oct 2009

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Pay raises not yet part of Flagler school talks

BUNNELL -- Negotiations that began last week between representatives of the Flagler County teachers union and the school district are off to a good start, a district official said. But while raises "have been expected" among the district's teachers, ...

From KENYA WOODARD, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  27 Oct 2009

Disabled students get hands-on work experience

PALM COAST -- Waleed Alkhatib, 19, is freshly dressed in a beige suit, dark brown tie and tan shoes when he meets Books-A-Million store manager Stephen Paine on Thursday morning. After a 20-minute tour of the building, the Flagler Technical Center ...

From KENYA WOODARD, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  23 Oct 2009

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More students getting free, reduced-price lunches

BUNNELL -- The lunch lines in Flagler and Volusia counties' traditional schools may be a little longer these days, but it's not the tasty munchies on the menu that are attracting more students to the cafeteria. Thanks to the lingering effects of the ...

From KENYA WOODARD, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  20 Oct 2009

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Shorter class periods test Flagler students, teachers

BUNNELL -- Cyril Stubbs sat down to take a 20-question exam in his math class at Flagler Palm Coast High School recently, but he didn't finish the test. It wasn't difficult, he said, there just wasn't enough time for him to complete it. The 17-year-old ...

From KENYA WOODARD, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  17 Oct 2009

Flagler Beach seeks help with pier, Fourth festivities

BUNNELL -- Flagler County and Flagler Beach commissioners discussed several topics at a workshop Tuesday but walked away without reaching a consensus on how both sides can share the costs of major attractions like the Flagler Beach Pier and Fourth of ...

From KENYA WOODARD, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  15 Oct 2009

Flagler groups unite to help homeless children

BUNNELL -- Dozens of social service workers and community leaders who attended a meeting Tuesday to discuss homeless children in the Flagler County school district didn't walk away with the crisis solved. But the gathering -- sponsored by the school ...

From KENYA WOODARD, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  14 Oct 2009

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