Centner Academy barred teachers newly vaccinated against the coronavirus from being near students. Some parents threatened to withdraw their children. Others clamored to enroll. By Patricia Mazzei ...

The school has a history of spreading inaccurate information about the vaccine and penalizing those who choose to get the shots. In April, Centner Academy employees were told they had to notify ...

The school’s CEO and co-founder, Leila Centner, sent a letter to faculty and staff at the Centner Academy citing unsupported assertions about Covid-19 vaccines that contradicted a large body of ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Leila Centner, CEO of Centner Academy, spoke Tuesday about her school's controversial new policy trying to keep teachers and staff from getting lifesaving COVID vaccinations.

Long before Miami’s Centner Academy ignited a national uproar by telling teachers not to get COVID-19 vaccinations, contrary to all credible scientific advice, the school’s husband-and-wife ...

The Centner Academy opened in 2019 for students in prekindergarten through eighth grade, promoting itself as a “happiness school” focused on children’s mindfulness and emotional intelligence.

Tuition at Centner Academy can run around $25,000 per year. In April of last year, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Centner received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for over ...

A new twist to the vaccine controversy at Centner Academy. A meeting was held Thursday afternoon with parents after a teacher told a fifth grade class not to hug their vaccinated parents.

Centner Academy co-founder Leila Centner repeated debunked claims to explain why teachers who have received COVID-19 vaccinations will have to stay away from students. Skip to Main Content.

David and Leila Centner, whose Centner Academy in Miami is effectively barring teachers from getting the COVID vaccine, donated $1 million to Republicans in 2020.

I’m visiting Centner Academy, the private K-12 school Mrs. Centner and her husband, David, founded in 2019 after his retirement as a “serial tech entrepreneur.” ...