District of the Year: Miami-Dade County Public Schools
December 9, 2019
By: Linda Jacobson
Source: Education Dive
t’s been almost two years since Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, turned down New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s offer to lead the nation’s largest school district.
But it appears Carvalho’s last-minute — and, he says, very personal — decision to stay in South Florida paid off. For the second year in a row, the district received an A in the Florida Department of Education’s rating system, and no individual schools were rated an F.