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Rudy’s Out

CBS4's Jim Defede reports that attorneys representing the Miami-Dade School Board and Superintendent Rudy Crew have struck a deal that ends the nationally lauded, but locally villified, educator's tenure in our fabled Banana Republic. The School Board is to vote on the buy-out at today's meeting. -- Francisco Alvarado...
By Francisco AlvaradoSeptember 10, 2008
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CBS4’s Jim Defede reports that attorneys representing the Miami-Dade School Board and Superintendent Rudy Crew have struck a deal that ends the nationally lauded, but locally villified, educator’s tenure in our fabled Banana Republic. The School Board is to vote on the buy-out at today’s meeting.

— Francisco Alvarado

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Francisco Alvarado was born in Nicaragua and grew up in Miami, giving him unique insight into the Magic City and all its dark corners. An investigative reporter with a knack for uncovering corruption, Alvarado made his bones as a staff writer at Miami New Times and remains in dogged pursuit of the next juicy story.

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