It didn’t take long for PTA president and candidate Nancy Lawther to respond to the post earlier this week about being the proxy for Miami-Dade School Board Member Larry Feldman, who decided not to run and wants to anoint her instead. And to follow his lying footsteps. In a longish note to “members of the […]
The August 18 election is not just for mayor and county commissioners, although that’s what one might think from all the hype. There are also school board and judicial races. Of the four Miami-Dade School Board seats on the ballot, the District 9 race is sucking all the oxygen out of the room. Not only […]
We have three new interesting candidates wanting to get on the Miami-Dade School Board. In the District 3 race, we have Dr. Raquel Bild-Libbin challenging 15-year School Board Member Martin Karp. She filed paperwork last month naming political mailer Keith Donner as her treasurer. She is a Miami Beach-based licensed psychologist specializing in the treatment of […]
Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernández may be on the verge of another backroom deal — unless the Miami-Dade School Board stops him. Last year, Hernández sent a letter to School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho with an idea: Let’s rezone the vacant 12 acres of land adjacent to Hialeah Middle School — a vacant field that was used […]
Miami-Dade Public Schools’ wildly popular Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said on Thursday, in a very dramatic fashion, that he turned down a job leading New York City’s public school system to stay with the district where he began his career as a physics teacher at Jackson High. Wide speculation Wednesday that Carvalho was taking the School […]
Say it ain’t so, Alberto! Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the charismatic populist leader of the 4th largest school district in the U.S., has been tapped to lead the largest school district in New York City, several news sources reported Wednesday afternoon. Perhaps New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, right, who was expected to make the […]
There may be an upset in the race for Miami-Dade School Board District 1, which encompasses Miami Gardens, Carol City and North Miami. The race for District 7 is pretty much sewn up. Unfortunately, Aster Bato Mohammed is no match for Lubby Navarro, the school board lobbyist appointed by Gov. Rick Scott two years ago […]
We’ve all just figured out what Plan B is for the family and friends of Miami-Dade Carlos Gimenez should he get fired by voters and lose his seat at County Hall in August: Get another seat on the school board. The mayor’s sister-in-law filed documents earlier this month to run for the Miami-Dade School Board […]
It’s been difficult to jump on the Miami-Dade School Board races because it’s a territory that Ladra doesn’t walk often, and we’ve been busy with a congressional and county races as well as a recall and funky county budget. There is likely good reason to replace both incumbents who were challenged. But Ladra thinks its […]
While there are five Miami-Dade School Board seats on the ballot this year, only one of the contests so far seems like it could be a real schoolyard fight. Three incumbents — Wilbert Holloway, Martin Karp and Larry Feldman (Ladra’s district member) — are so far unopposed (more on that later). One campaign lost its […]