{"id":356697,"date":"2026-07-29T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356697\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:43:09","slug":"miami-dade-principal-of-the-year-receives-new-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356697\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade Principal of the Year receives new car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 29, 2026 at 4:21 PM<\/p>\n<p>Liberty City Elementary Principal Lamar Johnson honored during red carpet eventlead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Q3E5CQSAF5E4RHRX2654SRTB5Y.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla.  \u2014 Lamar Johnson, the 2026 Miami-Dade County Public Schools Principal of the Year, received a brand-new 2026 Toyota Camry SE and a complimentary three-year lease Wednesday during a red-carpet celebration at Headquarter Toyota\u2019s Hialeah showroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Family, school officials and community supporters gathered as Headquarter Toyota Chief Operating Officer and CFO Judy L. Farcus Serra presented Johnson with the keys, honoring his leadership at Liberty City Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johnson has spent more than 18 years with Miami-Dade County Public Schools as a teacher, math instructional coach and administrator, according to a news release from Headquarter Toyota. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During his five years as principal, Liberty City Elementary School improved from a \u201cC\u201d school to an \u201cA\u201d school for the first time in more than a decade, with gains in student achievement and attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am humbled and deeply grateful to Headquarter Toyota for this incredible gift,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cOur success isn\u2019t mine alone. It\u2019s built on empowered teachers who collaborate, lead boldly, and drive results. When students feel supported, challenged, and celebrated, they thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 29, 2026 at 4:21 PM Liberty City Elementary Principal Lamar Johnson honored during red carpet eventlead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand HIALEAH,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-356697","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\/356697","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=356697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}