{"id":228966,"date":"2026-04-12T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228966\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:17:10","slug":"miami-dade-school-district-moves-to-fire-teacher-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228966\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade school district moves to fire teacher after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774306025_232_handcuffs_approved.jpg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"A Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher was arrested Friday, April 10, 2026, on five charges including battery and offenses against students by authority figures, court records show. \" alt=\"A Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher was arrested Friday, April 10, 2026, on five charges including battery and offenses against students by authority figures, court records show. \"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher was arrested Friday, April 10, 2026, on five charges including battery and offenses against students by authority figures, court records show. <\/p>\n<p>            Miami Herald File<\/p>\n<p>A Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher is facing termination after being arrested Friday on five charges including battery and offense against students by authority figures, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Rudolph Infante, 53, is a teacher at Miami Southridge Senior High School.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade Schools Police Department began an investigation upon learning about \u201cthis suspected behavior,\u201d and Infante was arrested, school district spokesperson Elmo Lugo said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>                                              <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/unnamed.jpg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"1425\" title=\"unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"Rudolph Infante, 53\"\/>                                                                                    Rudolph Infante, 53                                                                                                                                                                        Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade County Public Schools is disturbed by the allegations against Infante, and the district has initiated termination proceedings and will ensure he\u2019s precluded from seeking future employment with the district, Lugo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis type of behavior will not be tolerated as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Infante\u2019s arrest affidavit, which details the case, was not available Sunday. He was being held on a $14,000 bond at the Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, jail records show.<\/p>\n<p>His public defender, Anton Fetkulov, and the state\u2019s largest teachers union, United Teachers of Dade, did not immediately respond Sunday to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/313699071\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776028630_574_Headshots AGS 036 .jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Sofia Saric\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher was arrested Friday, April 10, 2026, on five charges including battery and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-228966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}