{"id":302057,"date":"2026-06-10T01:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302057\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:51:17","slug":"steve-gallons-seat-on-miami-dade-school-board-opens-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302057\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Gallon\u2019s seat on Miami-Dade school board opens up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miami-Dade<\/p>\n

Miami-Dade School Board Member Steve Gallon III resigned his seat on the school board to take a position on the Miami-Dade County Commission. <\/p>\n

Miami Herald Staff<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a new vacancy on Miami-Dade County Public School\u2019s governing board.<\/p>\n

District 1 School Board Member Steve Gallon resigned from his seat representing much of the northernmost stretch of Miami-Dade County on Monday, setting up an election to fill his seat<\/a> for the remaining two-plus years in his term.<\/p>\n

Gallon, 57, is now set to represent District 1 on the Miami-Dade County Commission, as he was the only candidate to file for that seat<\/a> \u2014 he will fill the seat recently vacated by Oliver Gilbert, who is now running for Congress and will give up his seat<\/a> representing the Miami Gardens area in January.<\/p>\n

Prospective candidates to replace Gallon have a tight window to file for the office. According to a notice from Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, the qualifying dates to run for the office stretch from noon on June 10 to noon on June 16.<\/p>\n

Four other school board seats are on-cycle for re-election to their four-year terms this year. The deadline to file for those seats \u2014 Districts 2, 4, 6 and 8. \u2014 ends Friday at noon.<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday evening, only the incumbent board members had filed for election to those district seats.<\/p>\n

Those board members are Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall, Roberto Alonso, Chair Mari Tere Rojas and Vice Chair Monica Colucci. All four members have raised significant funds towards their elections<\/a>, with three having raised more than $100,000 as of March 31.<\/p>\n

The primary election is set for Aug. 18 and the general election will be held Nov. 3. Those dates will apply to District 1 as well as the other four districts.<\/p>\n

Gallon was first elected to his seat in 2016.<\/p>\n


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Austin Horn<\/a><\/p>\n

Lexington Herald-Leader<\/p>\n

Austin Horn covers education for the Miami Herald. He joined the newsroom in 2026 after covering politics in his home state of Kentucky for several years.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade School Board Member Steve Gallon III resigned his seat on the school board to take a position…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-302057","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\/302057","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=302057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}