Political palanca is pushing the gas pedal It looks like the BusPatrol program is still parked in neutral — and the Miami-Dade School Board could decide Wednesday whether to tow it away or try to fix it. And three members are very connected to BusPatrol lobbyists pushing for the program to be reinstated. Six months […]
Forget lunchboxes, backpacks and new sneakers. For thousands of Miami-Dade families, the first day of school comes with a sick feeling in the pit of their stomachs — and it’s not from cafeteria mystery meat. It’s from the fear that masked, armed ICE agents could storm into the classroom or be waiting for them just […]
Board votes 5-3 against resolution along partisan lines The Miami-Dade School Board meeting Wednesday was painful. It was ugly. And so sad. Traumatizing might be an apt description for many people there. It was eight hours or so worth of a debate over a proclamation of October as LGBTQ History Month, a debate that never […]
Will she or won’t she? Miami-Dade School Board Member Lubby Navarro — who was voted vice chair at meeting — may run for re-election, despite the fact that a new state law says she can no longer work as a lobbyist. Is she going to quit her job as a legislative lobbyist for the South […]
While a Miami-Dade Commission seat has sat vacant for two months, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wasted no time in naming former Miami Springs Councilman Daniel “Danny” Espino to the county school board Monday to replace Christi Fraga, who resigned to run for mayor of Doral and has a runoff in December. Espino was youngest council […]
After about six hours of emotional public commentary and discussion among the Miami-Dade School Board members, the decision was made not to recognize October as LGBTQ History Month, as they had in 2021. A non-academic, mostly symbolic item that passed last year 7-1, failed this year 8-1, revealing a seismic shift in policy driven by […]
The next vote on the chairmanship may hang in the balance Two candidates hand-picked by Gov. Ron DeSantis to punish, er, challenge Miami-Dade School Board members that did not toe his line on face masks and other COVID-29 craziness won Tuesday, likely changing the dynamic on that dais and further politicizing a “non-partisan” governing body. […]
Two, maybe three Miami-Dade School Board races this year have been seized by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez as part of a statewide effort to unseat more than two dozen local school board members who didn’t back the guv’s hardline stance against masks mandates in schools. Perla Tabares Hantman, Marta Perez […]
Political Cortadito was the first to tell everyone that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his team — principally Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez, because she is from here — recruited hardline Republicans to challenge three Miami-Dade School Board members that didn’t toe the GOP line against mandated COVID-19 facemasks. Well, now they’ve doubled down with digital […]
A week after banning two sex ed books, the board approves them In a striking reversal, Miami-Dade School Board Chairwoman Perla Tabares Hantman — who has been forced into retirement by a GOP-backed challenge — restored two sexual education books to the middle and high school curriculum only one week after she had voted to […]