Colleen Wright - Miami Herald
Person Page
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Through a most challenging school year, Silver Knight Award winners have given it their all. When the coronavirus pandemic changed life as they knew it, some Silver Knight winners were stirred to action.
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In past years, about 5,000 to 6,000 students would participate in the district’s summer learning programs, said Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. This year, the district is targeting 65,000 students, or a quarter of its enrollment in traditional public schools.
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The Miami-Dade County School District has set the ambitious goal of switching completely to "clean energy" by 2030.
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Miami-Dade County’s 14-day positivity rate is 10.57% and rising. That doesn’t jibe with the criteria the district set in deciding when to reopen schools.
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The Miami-Dade County School Board’s multimillion-dollar settlement with the rape victims of a former P.E. teacher came with an unenforceable gag order, preventing the survivors from disclosing the settlement amount and disparaging the school district to the media.
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Herrera was one of dozens of families who came by car, foot and ride share on Wednesday to pick up bulk groceries to sustain them over the winter break.
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Lenore Rodicio, Miami Dade College’s executive vice president and provost who was twice in the running to be the next president of the college, has resigned.
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Miami-Dade School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s nonprofit foundation is under investigation by the Office of the Inspector General regarding a solicited donation from K12, the company that provided the district with an online platform that didn’t work during a tumultuous first two weeks of virtual schooling.
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The Miami-Dade County School Board unanimously voted to sever ties with its controversial online platform.
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The board members want to know how its new online platform, My School Online by K12, was procured, if the school district could terminate the platform, how the district’s cybersecurity suffered more than two dozen cyberattacks, and have a clearer reopening plan going forward.
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Parents received a survey late Monday to gauge their children’s learning experience so far.
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The school district made the announcement via email around 9:30 a.m. Thursday. The email included the arrest affidavit, which shows an arrest was made 2:43 a.m. Thursday.