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“An educated people will always be strong and free. The alternative is ignorance. Ignorance will ultimately destroy us.” Jose Marti.
The 2012 Miami-Dade School Board race promises to be a close one. Not for the board members, mind you, but for the for-profit charter schools competing to buy votes to open more of their schools.
Although school board incumbents Renier Diaz de la Portilla, Martin Karp, and Lawrence Feldman do not have opponents, they each have for-profit charter school money, and the funding race is heating up in the districts, with the Demetrio Perez Jr.-operated Lincoln-Marti charter schools holding a strong lead.
Perez Jr., as many know, is a former vice chairman of the Miami-Dade School Board. In “Florida