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December 1, 2005
South Florida school boards: We need cash
Board members from school districts in Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties met together this week seeking to come up with strategies to find needed funding. "This year is the year we cannot play nice," said Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade's associate superintendent for intergovernmental affairs, quoted in the Miami Herald. "It's a fight via e-mail, via pamphlets."
Board members from other counties agreed that parent groups would be an effective tool to pressure lawmakers.
"We need an all-out attack . . . from PTA on," said Broward School Board member Bob Parks. "We need a whole strategy on public engagement." Among the more pressing issues facing the boards: Continued challenges related to 2004 hurricanes that battered the state, as well as high costs related to that state's new sex-offender law that requires background checks for contractors who have access to school campuses. Also: The Florida School Boards Association is suing the state board of education over a rule that will ban the placement of two teachers in one classroom next year as a way to meet requirements for reducing class sizes. Miami Herald here. Editorials: Fort Myers News-Press here, Palm Beach Post here.
Posted December 1, 2005 4:43 PM
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