Talk:Miami-Dade County Public Schools

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[edit] Budget

What is the School Board's current annual budget? Somewhere in the range of $4 billion? -- BD2412 ^talk 14:30, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure, all the information i've gathered comes straight from the school board's website, and local news reports. I could try to find it, though. PRueda29 21:15, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bilingual Education

Miami-Dade is in no way the only public school district in the country to offer bilingual education programs; I can cite my own local public schools as but one example of another district that offers full primary and secondary education in a bilingual Spanish-English program. For that reason, I have removed that statement. If there is a special program in Miami Dade that should be noted, by all means add it back into the article, but that program is certainly not unique. - Cuivienen 21:51, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Magnet Schools

There are more magnet schools than the ones listed here unless you are only listing the purely magnet schools and not the shared magnet and public schools. Because I went to Miami Coral Park Senior High School, and I was definitely in a magnet program. Please refer to : http://choice.dadeschools.net/shs_listings.htm - Heartcoke 08:22, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, every High School in Dade has a magnet program; if you look on the list you provided, pretty much every high school in the district is listed there. The reason for these magnet programs is to attract students of certain demographic groups which are in low demand in the particular school. Thus, a school like Hialeah High School, that's 90% hispanic, will attract black, asian, and white students to its Aviation Magnet program, allowing these students to take core classes related to Aviation on their path to their careers in that field, while the local students just take regular open classes. Attracting the demographics which are low in numbers will then allow for Hialeah's overall population to contain more "minority" students than it would if it just took in students from the neighborhood, though technically, the program can end up attracting more hispanic students as well and backfire, but the point is to attract them all from other neighborhoods that have different demographics. The schools listed under the "Magnet" section are schools which do not serve the local neighborhood at all, but rather ONLY take in students for their magnet program, meaning everyone in the school will be a magnet student, and the school does not cater to students in the surrounding area. For example, students living around Coral Reef High School attend Braddock unless they apply and get into Coral Reef; sme goes for New World and MAST Academy, you must apply into those schools to attend, so they are considered traditional magnet schools, the rest of the high schools are just public high schools with magnet programs. -- SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} 16:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Makes sense, thanks! -- Heartcoke 05:49, 11 March 2007 (UTC)