HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 Superintendent Jos\u00e9 Dotres welcomed a group of about 200 teachers on Monday for training at the American Senior High School in Hialeah. <\/p>\n
Dotres hosted the New Teacher Induction, or NTI, training, which included breakout sessions on lesson planning, discipline strategies, and pacing guides.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the best school district in this country,\u201d Dotres told the teachers.<\/p>\n
Lenroy Williams said he is ready to work with students in the Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps, a federal program operated in schools by the U.S. Armed Forces.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the best of both worlds for me,\u201d Williams said. \u201cI still get to wear the uniform, and I get to shape young minds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maralys Valdes, an entrepreneur with experience in real estate, was preparing to teach fifth-grade students at Ben Sheppard Elementary School in Hialeah. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the right time for me to switch over,\u201d Valdes said about her career change. <\/p>\n
The 2026\u201327 academic year begins on Aug. 13 <\/a>for students at Miami-Dade County Public Schools, who will no longer have districtwide free meals. <\/p>\n The district cut 168 jobs and closed nine schools due to budget reductions related to declining student enrollment. <\/p>\n Mandarin Lakes K-8 AcademyRobert Russa Moton ElementaryParkway ElementaryRainbow Park ElementaryLenora B. Smith Elementary will move to Georgia Jones-Ayers Middle and transition to a K-8 center.Phillis Wheatley ElementaryPine Villa ElementaryMiami Springs Middle will move to Miami Springs Senior and transition to a 6-12 school.Richmond Heights Middle will move to Arthur & Polly Mays Conservatory of the Arts and transition to a K-12 school.<\/p>\n State per-pupil funding allocations lowered after there were 13,000 fewer M-DCPS students from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026, according to the district.<\/p>\n The state\u2019s universal voucher program<\/a> has been causing private school enrollment to surge, according<\/a> to the Florida Policy Institute, a nonprofit based in Orlando. <\/p>\n Classes start on Aug. 10<\/a> for students at Broward County Public Schools, and on Aug. 11<\/a> for students at the Archdiocese of Miami Catholic Schools. <\/p>\n Related stories<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 Superintendent Jos\u00e9 Dotres welcomed a group of about 200 teachers on Monday for training at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-361732","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\/361732","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=361732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}