2016 School Board race begins as appointee is installed Friday

2016 School Board race begins as appointee is installed Friday

Lubby Navarro, the bureaucrat-turned-lobbyist who was appointed this week to the Miami-Dade School Board by Gov. Rick Scott will be sworn in this afternoon. But already, she’s got a challenge if for the 2016 election from teacher Carolina Blanco, who has spent the last eight years in a classroom teaching special needs students. Blanco had […]

Lubby Navarro is named to Miami-Dade School Board

Lubby Navarro is named to Miami-Dade School Board

Florida Rick Scott has appointed Lubby Navarro, a Miami-Dade School Board lobbyist, to the school board’s governing body in the seat vacated by former School Board Member Carlos Curbelo, who was elected to Congress in November. Navarro’s appointment is about to be announced any minute now (Friday afternoon). She was picked from a group of […]

Hopefuls jostle for Carlos Curbelo’s school board seat

Hopefuls jostle for Carlos Curbelo’s school board seat

UPDATED: Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos “One Term” Curbelo, who was elected to Congress two weeks ago, isn’t expected to resign from his current seat until January. He has said that the December meeting will be his last. But there are several people either jostling or being jostled for the position before Gov. Rick Scott, who […]