Remarks by Mary Blanco
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Thank you. Can I get a second? All in favor? Thank you. All right, next order of business will be to move the D items to the floor. May I have a motion? We're all sipping some coffee. A second, and all in favor?”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Okay, board member, any questions? All right, let's move along to D21.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“My colleagues, any questions? All right. Keep moving along. D23.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Any other board members? And just somewhat as a follow-up, I had many of those questions myself, and I know I asked during briefing yesterday, and I think you gave me a number I haven't heard today. How many is it that we actually need to go through some kind of training process to be able to put them into another um position through the chair it's small number given that the total number of positions is about 160 it's about 20. that's what i thought you had said and and mr steiger that's because counselors and hr care about people that is accurate all right any other questions on um d63 is…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Okay, all right, thank you. Any questions from board members? Board Member Santos?”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Okay, thank you so much for that. I know that was something I had brought up in my briefing. Any questions or comments from the board? Yes.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Absolutely. Any other questions? Board Member Espino?”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Okay. Any other questions or comments on D67? Okay, moving on to D68.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Always. This is an important topic. Actually, you know, I'm glad, Madam Chair, that you brought it up because we often talk about this item with frustration. But it feels like there's nothing we can do, but there has to be something we can do. And I know I'm the one that has always said, if at least one person in the building connects and notices a child, we can turn that child around. And there are some things that might be out of our control. But when we talk about services and wraparound services and things we can do outside of the building, as you were saying, our teaching needs to go…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Okay, can I get a motion to move the G items to our meeting? Second. All in favor?”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Board Member Bendross-Mendengol. And I did not get the memo that you were going to present. But actually, it made perfect sense for you to be the one to present his last item.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. Board members, any comments, feedback you'd like to give? Yes.”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“I too am very appreciative of the item. I know I don't happen to have any 612 schools in my district, and I will say before being involved with Miami-Dade County Public Schools at all, as K-8 started to pop up on the scene, I remember thinking what a wonderful idea, because that hadn't been offered, and I knew of many parents that wanted to keep their children young and innocent, and so liked that option. But I think as time has developed, and we talk about parent choice, right? There are some that are now seeing some of those limitations, but now if we do 6-12, there's so many more…”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Board Member Santos, for your clarity on where you stand on this. Any other board members have comments or questions?”
Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026
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Personnel, Student, School, and Community Support Committee · Jun 10, 2026