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Since being elected to the school board in 2020, Baez-Geller has been a progressive voice and an outspoken advocate on LGBTQ issues. She plans to finish out her term, which ends in November 2024.
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A new school year has begun for hundreds of thousands of students in Florida's largest school district. Like others across the state, Miami-Dade County Public Schools was short teachers on the first day — as educators grapple with new restrictions on what and how they can teach.
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Dozens of parents and educators rallied outside the Miami-Dade School Board in downtown Miami, before a meeting where the board voted to give parents more venues to review instructional materials
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Superintendent Jose Dotres praised public schools staff at the annual event kick-off rally. But the start of the new year in Florida's largest school district comes on the back of a flurry of controversies over teaching standards
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Florida needs more teachers. To help build out the pipeline of future educators, Miami Dade College is working with the Miami-Dade school district to create new dual enrollment programs at more than 50 high schools across the country to train aspiring teachers.
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Some students are back in school after failing the previous grade. Others are learning English after recently arriving in the U.S., part of a wave that added 20,000 immigrant students to the district in the past year.
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Republican Miami Mayor Francis Suarez talked at length about Florida’s newest immigration policies and the uptick in immigration across the country is directly affecting Miami-Dade County Public Schools. PolitiFact and WLRN explain that his claim is true.
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More than 20,000 new immigrant students have enrolled in Miami-Dade County Public Schools this year - more enrollments than the district saw after Hurricane Maria. The majority come from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, crisis-hit countries covered by Biden's new parole program.
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Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona says he's been monitoring a series of state-law bills across the country that he says are "attacking" public schools. His visit to Miami came a day after state lawmakers voted to expand the law critics have labeled "Don't Say Gay".
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The Miami-Dade County Commission hasn't increased its educational impact fees for nearly 30 years. As a result, Miami-Dade County students are missing out on millions in additional funding.
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According to a study by a clean energy advocacy group, as of 2022, nearly 10% of U.S. schools were using solar polar. Advocates in South Florida have been pushing Miami-Dade County Public Schools to install solar for years.
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“I look forward to seeing and participating in prayer services and prayer gatherings in our school where I will personally thank God for the very freedom to gather and to pray,” said board Vice Chair Dan Espino.