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Superintendent Dr. Jose L. Dotres\u2019 contract with Miami-Dade County Public Schools ends<\/p>\n
Pedro Portal<\/p>\n
pportal@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n
More than 20 people applied to become the new superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the district told the Miami Herald Thursday.<\/p>\n
The district shared only the names of the applicants with the Herald in a preliminary response to a public records request for all of their application materials.<\/p>\n
The window to apply for the top position in the district closed Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
Applicants include school administrators from across the country as well as familiar faces in the school system like district Chief of Staff Jose Bueno and South Region Superintendent Rafael Villalobos.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a list of applicant names shared with the Herald:<\/p>\n
Samuel BentsenAmanda BlatterSantarvis BrownJose BuenoTaran ChunJaime ColeLatanya CollinsCorey GardenhourLinus GuilloryLidice LascanoErnie LozanoAlex MarreroSylvia R. MitchellJeffery MosleyDesmond MoultonCarlos PerezAngel RiveraChristopher RuszkowskiChristopher SpenceShawn C. ThorpeRafael Villalobos<\/p>\n
Current Superintendent Jose Dotres was hired to lead the district Jan. 2022<\/a>, replacing Alberto Carvalho.<\/p>\n Dotres\u2019 current contract is scheduled to end Feb. 14, 2027. The board recently approved a deal with a national search firm to lead the process<\/a>, with the contract not exceeding $30,000.<\/p>\n Despite previous rumblings that Republican State Representative Alex Rizo would vie for the job,<\/a> his name did not appear among the list of applicants.<\/p>\n The new superintendent would inherit a district undergoing rapid change.<\/p>\n Enrollment at traditional public schools has been declining<\/a> fast over the last two decades. The board is set to consider at next week\u2019s meeting closure and consolidation of four schools<\/a> and could close more later this year.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, enrollment at charter schools remains robust and more students are using taxpayer-funded vouchers to help pay for private schooling.<\/p>\n Still, enrollment at traditional public schools well exceeds 200,000, the budget is greater than $7 billion and the district is recognized as the county\u2019s largest landowner and employer.<\/p>\n This story was originally published June 11, 2026 at 2:53 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Superintendent Dr. Jose L. Dotres\u2019 contract with Miami-Dade County Public Schools ends Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com More than 20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-304781","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\/304781","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=304781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}