{"id":314902,"date":"2026-06-21T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314902\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:42:09","slug":"this-week-in-south-florida-luisa-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314902\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in South Florida: Luisa Santos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 21, 2026 at 12:23 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. \u2014 For the first time in generations, Miami-Dade schools have more seats than students. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">And for the nation\u2019s third-largest \u2014 and one of the most diverse \u2014 school districts, tough changes are coming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The district is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/17\/miami-dade-school-board-unanimously-votes-to-close-multiple-schools-redraw-boundaries\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/17\/miami-dade-school-board-unanimously-votes-to-close-multiple-schools-redraw-boundaries\/\">closing or merging nine schools<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Public school populations are dropping for a few reasons: demographic and political shifts, state education policies and, in our immigrant-rich community, changes in immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">School Board Member Luisa Santos sponsored the plan that begins the superintendent\u2019s sweeping district plan to belt-tighten and downsize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She joined \u201cThis Week in South Florida\u201d on Sunday to talk about the decision with host Glenna Milberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Watch the video above to see their discussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Glenna Milberg\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/099bf4a7-492f-4b89-a5.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Glenna Milberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Emmy award-winning journalist Glenna Milberg joined Local 10 News in September 1999. She hosts &#8220;This Week in South Florida&#8221;, South Florida\u2019s highest-rated, most-watched public affairs program, anchors Local 10 World News Weekends, and covers South Florida&#8217;s top stories and big issues for Local 10 News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 21, 2026 at 12:23 PM PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. \u2014 For the first time in generations, Miami-Dade schools&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-314902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314902","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=314902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}