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Miramar schools to consolidate Sunshine into Fairway; district proposes Glades K–8 conversion
Summary
School board member Rebecca Thompson and district officials told the Miramar City Commission the board voted Jan. 21 to merge Sunshine Elementary into Fairway Elementary and floated converting Glades Middle to a K–8 with a technical focus; staff said transportation and boundary changes will be addressed in community meetings through November, with a board vote planned next December.
Rebecca Thompson, the School Board member for District 2, told the Miramar City Commission on Feb. 11 that the school board voted Jan. 21 to merge Sunshine Elementary into the Fairway Elementary campus and that the Sunshine site will likely be repurposed for district administrative uses.
The update, presented by Thompson and Valerie Wanda, the district’s chief strategy and innovation officer, described a decade of enrollment declines that the district tied to school‑choice vouchers, housing costs and the rise of charter schools. "Over the last about 10 years we have lost almost 50,000 students,"…
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