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  Miami-Dade Schools

  School Board approves new Miami-Dade Schools police chief

  Ian Moffett, a Miami-Dade Schools police veteran who left in 2009 to become a police major in Miami, will return as the next schools police chief.

• Palmetto Bay

  Palmetto Bay will reconsider 1,400-student charter school

  A divided Village Council agreed to settle a lawsuit stemming from the council’s 2011 rejection of a proposed charter school.

• Miami-Dade Schools

  Miami-Dade Schools announces large expansion of Cambridge program

  Miami-Dade Schools is expanding the Cambridge Program during the next three years to 70 new schools.

• Fla. ranked 42nd in nation in per-pupil spending

  Florida's per-pupil spending is among the lowest in the nation according to data compiled by the U.S. Census.

• Miami-Dade Schools

  Miami-Dade School Board to move principals, vote on police chief

  The Miami-Dade School Board will hold a special meeting Wednesday to move principals, combine departments and reduce staff.

• BROWARD SCHOOLS

  Broward School Board votes to privatize school construction work

  Superintendent Robert Runcie pitched privatization as a move toward efficiency and a way to get construction projects done on time and on budget.
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  INDIAN RIVER COUNTY

  Lesbian, 18, faces 15 years in prison for sex with classmate, 14

  An 18-year-old lesbian faces 15 years in prison for having sex with a 14-year-old high school classmate.

• BROWARD SCHOOLS

  Broward School Board to vote on privatizing school construction

  Broward School Board members will decide Tuesday whether to privatize much of the long-troubled facilities department.
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  Hialeah

  MDC Hialeah students win award for literary magazine

  The Columbia Scholastic Press Association has recognized Café Cultura, a student literary magazine at Miami Dade College’s Hialeah campus.

• Miami-Dade Schools

  Female officers settle suits against Miami-Dade schools and former police chief

  Cmdr. Deanna Fox-Williams and Officer Yewande Gibson settled their sexual harassment cases against former Miami-Dade Schools Police Chief Charles Hurley and the School Board.