{"id":301928,"date":"2026-06-09T23:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301928\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:35:31","slug":"steve-gallon-iii-leaves-miami-dade-school-board-to-run-for-county-commission-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301928\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Gallon III leaves Miami-Dade school board to run for county commission seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami-Dade County School Board member Steve Gallon III resigned from the seat Tuesday as he prepares to serve as a county commissioner starting next year.<\/p>\n<p>He won the District 1 county commission seat after no other candidates filed to run before Tuesday&#8217;s noon deadline to qualify.  Miami Gardens Councilwoman Linda Julien dropped out of the race less than a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/news-in-brief\/2026-06-01\/linda-julien-launches-campaign-for-miami-dade-commission-seat-as-oliver-gilbert-eyes-congress-run\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">declaring <\/a>she was running for the county commission seat.<\/p>\n<p>Gallon was first elected to the School Board in 2016 to represent District 1, which includes Miami Gardens and parts of Opa-Locka. <\/p>\n<p>Gallon was among five candidates who were officially elected or reelected because no challengers filed to unseat them.<\/p>\n<p>The county commission seat was vacated after Oliver Gilbert III announced his resignation to run for Congress in CD-24 to replace outgoing U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/government-politics\/2026-06-09\/five-miami-dade-county-commission-races-are-decided-with-no-vote\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Five Miami-Dade County Commission races are decided with no vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Serving as District 1&#8217;s School Board Member has been one of the greatest honors of my life \u2014 educating and serving children and the community has been my life,&#8221; said Gallon in a statement. &#8220;While my service on the School Board is coming to an end, my commitment to the people of District 1 remains unchanged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gallon&#8217;s career in education includes being a teacher, assistant principal, principal, district administrator and superintendent of schools in New Jersey \u2014 a role he parted with in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mycentraljersey.com\/story\/news\/local\/union-county\/2014\/07\/02\/plainfield-ex-superintendent-steve-gallon-hired-florida-banned-nj\/12107859\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scandal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I prepare to assume office as County Commissioner in January 2027 and build upon the work of Commissioner Oliver Gilbert, I remain focused on improving the quality of life for residents through affordable housing, public safety, economic opportunity, youth development, neighborhood revitalization, and community investment,&#8221; Gallon said.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to begin his new role as county commissioner in January 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade County School Board member Steve Gallon III resigned from the seat Tuesday as he prepares to serve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-301928","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\/301928","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=301928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}