2016 School Board race begins as appointee is installed Friday

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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 […]

Hopefuls jostle for Carlos Curbelo’s school board seat

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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 […]