{"id":304443,"date":"2026-06-11T22:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304443\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:36:07","slug":"denvers-alex-marrero-is-reportedly-a-candidate-for-superintendent-job-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304443\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver\u2019s Alex Marrero is reportedly a candidate for superintendent job in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero is a candidate for the top job in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the Miami Herald<\/a> reported Thursday.<\/p>\n

Marrero is one of 21 candidates who applied to be superintendent of the 345,000-student district. The current leader\u2019s contract is set to end in February, the Herald said. The application window closed Wednesday evening. The district shared the applicants\u2019 names with the Herald in a preliminary response to a public records request.<\/p>\n

Denver Public Schools did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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Marrero, who identifies as Afro Latino and is bilingual in Spanish, has been superintendent of 89,000-student Denver Public Schools since 2021<\/a>. His current contract<\/a> runs through 2028. His salary for this past school year was $346,529.<\/p>\n

Marrero\u2019s name has been floated for other high-profile superintendent jobs in the past. Earlier this school year, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that he was a finalist for Chicago Public Schools\u2019 CEO position. But Marrero said he was staying in Denver<\/a>. There was speculation that he might be in line<\/a> to lead New York City Public Schools, but he did not get that job.<\/p>\n

Denver\u2019s graduation rates have risen in Marrero\u2019s five-year tenure, and the district\u2019s state rating jumped to green,<\/a> the second highest, for the first time since 2019, before the pandemic.<\/p>\n

But concerns about school safety have sown discontent among some parents. Marrero has also overseen unpopular school closures<\/a> and disagreed with the school board about school autonomy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before coming to Denver, Marrero was the interim superintendent of a much smaller district in New Rochelle, New York. He was previously the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in New Rochelle and an assistant superintendent in East Ramapo, New York.<\/p>\n

Marrero began his career in the country\u2019s biggest school district, New York City, where he served as a guidance counselor, assistant principal, and principal. It\u2019s also where he attended school as a child growing up in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

Melanie Asmar<\/a> is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado\u2019s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23611,16516,20345,127592,127593,127591,127590,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-304443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-co","tag-colorado","tag-denver","tag-denver-public-schools","tag-dps","tag-dps-school-board","tag-dps-school-board-meeting","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304443","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=304443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}