Miami-Dade School Board

Marta Perez Demands an Explanation

Rudy's Out

School Board Wants Carvahlo to Replace Crew

No Child Left To Die

Electorial Money Makers, Part I

With the election season wrapped up, Banana Republican sifted through federal campaign financial reports, including those of Barack Obama and John McCain, to see who got paid. We begin with the companies that made money working for Mario Diaz-Balart, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, t ... More >>

State Sen. Frederica Wilson Hopes To Move Her Hat Collection to DC

Frederica Wilson and her extensive hat collection have pretty much done everything they can in Tallahassee. The Miami democrat has served in both houses of the State legislature, and now she's made it official that she'll be seeking the congressional seat Rep. Kendrick Meek is leaving behind in his ... More >>

Conflict of Interest for School Board Chair Agustin Barrera?

Frederica Wilson and her extensive hat collection have pretty much done everything they can in Tallahassee. The Miami democrat has served in both houses of the State legislature, and now she's made it official that she'll be seeking the congressional seat Rep. Kendrick Meek is leaving behind in his ... More >>

Scarface in Miami

Twenty-five years ago this month, the gangster epic caused a local stir.

Another No-Confidence Vote for Timoney

Even little old ladies don’t trust him

Bad Apple

Miami-Dade schools superintendent Rudy Crew has made many mistakes. Maybe too many.

Fear? No, Evil

The battle continues

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DJ Ital-K versus WLRN

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DJ Ital-K versus WLRN

The Great Elián Hoax

Did Demetrio Perez, Jr.'s Libre really produce this book?

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Kathleen Krog

Miami-Dade Schools To Adopt No Sexting in The Classroom Policy

via NerveThe Miami-Dade School Board took a long, hard look at the dangers of sexting last night. "Sexting" is one of those salacious topics the media has blown out of proportion because it sounds funny, and worries parents at the same time it secretly appeals to perves. It is basical ... More >>

Inspector General Gets Busy Cracking Down on Small-Time Rackets

Alex Izaguirre​ This past Friday, Miami-Dade inspector general Christopher Mazzella announced his office had busted ex-schools police Sgt. Patricia Hobby stealing $2,841 in overtime she didn't work.To avoid jail time, Hobby agreed to resign from the schools police force, complete 150 hours of comm ... More >>

A Former Miami-Dade Public Schools Principal Avoids Criminal Charges

Inspector General investigators discovered former high school principal Donald Hoecheryl falsified documents to hide the fact he had spent more than $200,000 in taxpayer money for unauthorized teacher retreats to Hawk's Cay Resort in the Keys and three other hotels.​A two-year investigation by the ... More >>

Spence-Jones Also-Rans Lobby Commissioners

​City commissioners will appoint someone today to fill Michelle Spence-Jones's empty District 5 seat. But the jockeying to replace the suspended commish was well under way Monday. David Chiverton and Dufirstson Neree, losing candidates in the election, made the rounds at city hall, pitching themse ... More >>

Frederica Wilson is Proud of Banning "Simulated Sexual Intercourse" in Marching Bands

State Sen. Frederica Wilson is currently running to replace Kendrick Meek in his North Miami congressional district. Apparently she's going around telling everyone that she's banned "dirty dancing in our community." Now, last time we went out to a club, we're pretty sure that we saw lots of people d ... More >>

Indicted Builders Used Illegal Aliens To Build Classrooms

​Earlier this month, the Miami-Dade School Board's watchdog agency and federal immigration agents busted a family of south Miami-Dade builders using 20 undocumented immigrants to build new modular classrooms at Southside Elementary. According to a July 1 federal indictment, Luis Daniel, his son Ar ... More >>

Political Vulture Ralph Arza Hovering Around Perla Tabares Hantman

​Even though Ralph Arza recently popped up at one of her fundraisers and at her campaign headquarters in Hialeah, Perla Tabares Hantman insists the disgraced former state representative is not working on her re-election campaign for Miami-Dade School Board. "He has no involvement as ... More >>

Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina Exposed on Facebook By Former Allies

City of HialeahJulio Robaina double-crossed two former allies who are now out to destroy him.​Last Wednesday, shortly before dawn, Rolando Bolaños logged on to his Facebook account to update his status regarding his favorite subject, Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina. The ex-Hialeah Police chief inform ... More >>

Ex-Hialeah Police Chief Rolando Bolanos trashes Mayor Julio Robaina on Facebook

City of HialeahJulio Robaina double-crossed two former allies who are now out to destroy him.​Last Wednesday, shortly before dawn, Rolando Bolaños logged on to his Facebook account to update his status regarding his favorite subject, Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina. The ex-Hialeah Police chief inform ... More >>

Election Day Races to Keep an Eye On

Will Bill McCollum and Kendrick Meek hold back the two millionaire candidates? Will Miami â€‹Mayor Tomas Regalado's blossoming political machine get his daughter a seat on the Miami-Dade School Board? Will Dorrin Rolle survive his scandalous year to win another term to the county commission? Wi ... More >>

Frederica Wilson's 25 Best Hats

Frederica Wilson was the winner of the Democratic primary in Florida District 17, and will almost certainly fill the vacancy left behind by Kendrick Meek in the next United States Congress. She is also a state legislator, mother, grandmother, founder of the 5000 Role Models program, former principal ... More >>

Friends Of WLRN Sitting On Six Million Dollars

​The philanthropy arm of PBS television affiliate and public radio station WLRN has incurred the wrath of some Miami-Dade School Board members. In his weekly edition of The Watchdog Report, Daniel Ricker reveals Friends of WLRN and Miami-Dade Public Schools, which owns the station's federal li ... More >>

Julio Robaina: Dade's next mayor?

​The philanthropy arm of PBS television affiliate and public radio station WLRN has incurred the wrath of some Miami-Dade School Board members. In his weekly edition of The Watchdog Report, Daniel Ricker reveals Friends of WLRN and Miami-Dade Public Schools, which owns the station's federal li ... More >>

Get Moving Mayor Regalado, Or I'll Take Your Job

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times This week, Luke lays out his ideas to fix Miami's inner city neighborhoods. While it was nice to see Tony Crapp Jr., an African American ... More >>

Rumeal Robinson, Prison-Bound NBA Baller, Screwed Over a Miami Mom Too

​Rumeal Robinson, the onetime University of Michigan hero who spent six seasons in the NBA, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in federal prison Friday for masterminding a bank fraud. Even in the days leading up to his sentencing, the consummate huckster was trying to raise cash from old friend ... More >>

Miami Springs Gym Teacher Accused of Having Sex with Teen on Campus

​Thirty-two-year-old Carlos Usatorres, a former full-time gym teacher at Miami Springs Middle School, was arrested last December on charges that he was having repeated sexual encounters in his office with a 13-year-old female student. The arrest has been kept quiet until now, but the attorney for ... More >>

Frederica Wilson Recalls When the Mafia Threatened Her Son's Life

​Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who owns perhaps the most stunning collection of hats since Isabella Blow, has finally landed on the cover of a magazine. Unfortunately for Anna Wintour, it wasn't on her Vogue magazine, but rather the Washington Post Magazine. Though the photo shoot cert ... More >>

Tomas Regalado Got Thousands in Free Tickets To Heat Games, Boxing Event

courtesy Al CrespoTomas Regalado and Sean Penn in a private box at a Heat game.​In Miami Beach, a storm is brewing over accusations that city officials strong-armed the New World Symphony to give them free tickets to concerts. But Beach leaders aren't the only politicians accepting free seats.Miam ... More >>

What Went Down at Snapper's Between Luther Campbell, Carlos Gimenez and Homestead Councilman Jimmie Williams

Snapper's on Ives Dairy Road: Not your typical "Let's Make A Deal" venue.​In his most recent column, Luther Campbell claims that Homestead City Councilman Jimmie Williams III, who supports Carlos Gimenez for mayor, offered him a $40,000 appearance fee to show up at the elected official's soon-to-b ... More >>

John L. Winn Sticks It to Miami Central and Miami Edison

Meet John L. Winn, destroyer of African-American public schools. ​Interim Florida Education Commissioner John L. Wynn's controversial plan to screw over the students at Miami Edison Senior High and Miami Central Senior High has to be stopped. The state's top education man is proposing that the sch ... More >>

Troubled Woman Fatally Shot After Opening Fire on Miami-Dade Police

​At 3:30 this morning a Miami-Dade police shot and killed a 32-year-old woman after she started firing at officers, and shot one in the abdomen. Police responded to the scene after the woman was reported to have been making threats to herself and others. Update: The woman has been identified as&nb ... More >>

Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent, Calls For McKay Program Overhaul

​In June, New Times published a feature exposing rampant fraud and a near-complete absence of oversight in the $150 million-a-year taxpayer-funded McKay Scholarship program for disabled children to attend private schools. One of our readers, it turns out, was Miami-Dade Public Schools Superin ... More >>