Initiatives
• Increase and sponsor Bilingual Education programs

• Increase emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in the curriculum

• Establish Miami-Dade County as a Foster Care and Adoption Friendly Workplace

• Adopt District-wide Bullying and Violence Implementation plan

• Improve Job Training and Employment Opportunities for Students with Disabilities

• Ensure a Differentiated Curriculum for Gifted Students

• Support the Return of High School Study Abroad Programs such as High School in Israel

• Implement Fienberg-Fisher and Ruth K. Broad Bay Harbor K-8 conversions to provide choice for students and their parents

• Add 6th grade to Nautilus Middle to provide choice for students and their parents

• Create a countywide school contest working with Miami-Dade Police and the Humane Society of Greater Miami

• Adopt Health Connect to provide nurses in 164 Schools

• Develop and Implement Summer Reading Lists and Assignments

• Add Fruit and Vegetable Snack Vending Machines in Schools

• Ensure Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education Programs for every elementary school student through grant funding

• Work with Florida School Boards Association to prevent the imposition of statutory penalties on school districts striving to meet class-size
  requirements

• Explore Ways to Honor Decorated and Fallen American Soldiers Who Attended or are Alumni of Miami-Dade Public Schools

• Update the School District's Emergency Operations Plan for Preventing and Responding to Terrorism