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Community voices oppose Schools of Hope colocation and urge board to defend local control
Summary
Parents, teachers and advocacy groups at the Miami-Dade school board meeting urged the board to resist Florida's Schools of Hope co-location notices, saying the policy risks displacing programs, stretching district resources and weakening locally elected authority. Speakers requested public statements, town halls and formal board action.
At a packed public hearing during the Miami-Dade County School Board's Dec. 17 meeting, dozens of parents, students, teachers and union leaders urged the board to push back against Florida's Schools of Hope colocation provisions and to defend local control over school facilities.
The morning and afternoon sessions opened with the board's procedural items; the substantive public debate about Schools of Hope began when speakers addressed item H4 and continued through the public hearing. Antonio White, president of United Teachers of Dade, said state-driven colocations "threaten pre-K, workforce programs and pile unfunded costs of custodial work, maintenance and food service onto this district." White added that colocations "fracture campuses, dilute services, and weaken this board's ability to protect public assets for the public good." (Antonio White)
Danielle Boyer,…
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