Attendence Boundary Committee - Regular Meeting

Thursday, December 4, 2025Official site

The Attendance Boundary Committee met to finalize targeted and advised schools, hear updates on previous school reassignments, and receive public comments. Community members expressed concerns about potential school closures, enrollment, and the impact on programs, while staff clarified the process and timeline for future community engagement.

About this meeting

Government Body
Attendence Boundary Committee
Meeting Type
Attendence Boundary Committee
Location
Miami-Dade County, FL
Meeting Date
December 4, 2025

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

11 sections

2:49•Regina Davis

Good morning, I'm Ms. Regina Davis representing Dr. Bindros-Mendigal. I was supposed to be not here today, but.

2:59•Mina Hosseini

Good morning, everyone. My name is Mina Hosseini and I represent school board member Luisa Santos in district nine.

3:07•Beverly Heller

Hello, my name is Beverly Heller and I'm representing the superintendent's panel for children with exceptionalities.

4:19•Mina Hosseini

Good morning, everyone. Lizbeth Gonzalez, North Region Office.

8:38 – 8:50•Beverly Heller

So I would like to have the minutes approved with corrections, which are basically grammatical and nothing having to do with content. And I've handed that to be looked at.

42:37•Marta Hernandez

Hello, Dr. Martha Hernandez, representing DIAC.

43:11 – 44:01•Mina Hosseini

Thank you for the community members that came out this morning to provide testimony. We really appreciate it and we don't take it for granted. My question is on the form itself. So we know the difference on the committee between targeted and advised, but I'm seeing that it says at the bottom schools denoted in bold will have boundaries dissolved. There are schools that are in bold in the advised list. So I'd love for you to clarify that point for the audience and for the committee. And I'd like to confirm, because we did hear from audience members that folks are unclear about what will be happ

55:48 – 56:06•Marta Hernandez

Yes, I do. And I want to thank Dr. Lewis for reminding us why we're here. And I want to thank this young man right here, who came to talk to us to remind us why we're here. Thank you.

57:39 – 58:20•Mina Hosseini

Also want to express my gratitude to district staff on moving this forward. I really do appreciate the ability to speak to folks one on one and seek clarifying questions. I think, as I've articulated in the past, folks, community members come to us some of us, you know, on this committee for clarification, and it would be incredibly useful to create a forum by which you all can address the public directly on schools of hope. So my, I think I'm grateful for the opportunity to ask you questions. But I think what needs to be offered is a public forum to do so for for community members.

1:02:13 – 1:03:05•Beverly Heller

No, you didn't say it. um i'm very mixed up i must tell you i and and maybe you can somebody can clarify this for me and and it has to do with schools of hope but it has it has to do with abc if school of hope moves into a school that is underrepresented it doesn't have enough students then they have enough students if those students are students and then they are they taken off the the the list or i i don't understand how this works because the a whole bunch of schools are being identified as they want the schools of hope to move in and and this is not a question just about schools of hope th

1:05:08•Beverly Heller

So then it comes back to the ABC. Is that what we're saying? It will come back and we will look at what's happened then?

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