Miami-Dade County School Board Member Lubby Navarro has resigned her seat, citing a new constitutional amendment that bars elected officials from also working as lobbyists. Under state law, once a seat is vacant, the governor can appoint a replacement.
It's official: a majority of Broward County School Board members are once again elected not appointed after new members were sworn in today. In Miami-Dade County, the three in-coming members are seen as allies of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Caleb Freestone was arrested at a rowdy meeting of the Miami-Dade County School Board even though bystanders say he wasn't the one causing the disruption. Prosecutors declined to prosecute the case against him after WLRN published an article raising civil liberties concerns about his arrest.
The Miami-Dade school board voted down a proposal Wednesday that would have recognized October as LGBTQ History Month, citing Florida's Parental Rights in Education law.