{"id":1941,"date":"2026-06-18T04:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2026-06-18T04:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:34:02","slug":"miami-dade-school-board-approves-closing-9-schools-as-enrollment-falls-charters-move-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=1941","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade School Board approves closing 9 schools as enrollment falls, charters move in"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Falling enrollment is an ongoing trend in South Florida\u2019s public school districts. Just like Broward County Public Schools, Miami-Dade County Public Schools is trying to \u201cright-size\u201d itself, because state funding is based on the number of students in the classrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The school board on Wednesday voted unanimously to shut down nine schools, and according to activists who demonstrated outside district headquarters, for-profit charter school operators will take advantage of the closures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Their protest called for the school board to fight back against charter schools co-locating on public school campuses. One of the organizers told the board that these issues are related.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThese families are not losing their schools because their schools failed them; they\u2019re losing their schools because the state failed them. Our community is watching a pattern, public schools close, charters move in,\u201d said Miami-Dade PTA member Lisette Fernandez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The superintendent said the school closures are based strictly on enrollment numbers, and the kids at those schools will have more opportunities for enrichment at their new schools.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThese students are now going to schools where there are additional resources for them to tap in, additional programming, additional resources, that at the school they were at, unfortunately, we could not provide,\u201d said Jose Dotres, superintendent of Miami-Dade Schools.<\/p>\n

As Dotres explained, when schools are severely underenrolled, there\u2019s not enough funding to provide a full educational experience, and school board member Luisa Santos agreed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd so what is actually missing in this conversation is that so many students can be better served if we merge resources and actually invest more per student,\u201d Santos said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The nine schools to be closed are: <\/p>\n