Remarks by Monica Colucci
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“Congratulations. Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate that, and thank you to everyone who has entrusted this great responsibility and privilege upon me. I'm truly appreciative, and I look forward to serving for four more years. Thank you, Madam Chair.”
School Board · Aug 19, 2026
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School Board · Aug 19, 2026
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“We do not have any public speakers at this time, so please present your item, Madam Chair.”
School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. Congratulations to you. And at this time, I want to open it up to my colleagues, Board Member Alonso,”
School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you. And I just want to say thank you so much for your service. Oh, would you like to say something? No? Okay. I just want to say thank you so much for your service to our schools and our district and to our students. Orange Bowl Committee and Miami Loves Teachers, it's just such great initiatives. What you do every day makes a difference, not only in our schools, but in the lives of children, because when they go into these spaces, I was just at one, couple of months ago at one of the schools in my district and you see the excitement in the students faces as they go into these…”
School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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“Move it. All in favor? Aye. May I have a motion to move the item as amended? Move it. All in favor? Aye. Motion passes. And at this time, I turn the gavel back over to Madam Chair. Thank you very much.”
School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair and colleagues. I'm bringing forth this item because it's an important one. and it gives us an opportunity to be proactive and to have that responsibility as board members and as a district to be responsible to our students and to our community. The Florida schools grading scale is changing for the 2026-27 school year. I want to state for the record that I fully support rigorous standards, accountability, and continuous improvement. In fact, this change is occurring because 75% or more of schools in Florida have reached an A or B rating. Under Florida law, and the…”
School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right, Vice Chair Calucci. Thank you, thank you Madam Chair and thank you Board Member Espino for that comment because I hear what you're saying and I specifically made sure that we're focusing on student outcomes, not chasing a formula or a letter grade because that's not what it's about. When we have solid instruction, Students will do well, school performance will follow. So that's critical. I'm always about educating the whole child, and as a matter of fact, you hear that stress in third grade, when the students hear, oh, I'm not gonna pass the test, I'm not gonna go to third grade,…”
School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair, and I just wanna wish everyone, the listening public, our community, our teachers, our administrators, and our families, our parents, and our students a wonderful, wonderful start of the school year. I know it promises to be one filled with much success, much excitement, and much learning. So I want everyone to have a great first day of school on Thursday.”
School Board · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you. And this is just food for thought. I know that we've talked about not selling assets and leasing. My question is, a lot of these leases are 99 years. So we're developing on these pieces of land. At the end of that, what happens and maybe somebody could answer, you know, or what if there's a problem at some point. So that's just something food for thought that we can discuss at another time that I think we need to, you know, think about as a board because, I mean, And if we were to, for example, sell a piece of property that we really don't foresee developing on to someone, what are…”
Facilities and Construction Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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“And thank you for that because I think we're entering into an arena that's new to us and I think that we really have to establish like Board Member Alonso and you've brought up so many times, Board Member Espino, especially when we're discussing our strategic plan, to be transparent, to have a policy that the community understands, that our stakeholders understand. That's something that as we move into this new territory, and of course I know we did do a survey for our workforce to see what the interest is, and we have to look at that interest and see, you know, I know the AMI is a…”
Facilities and Construction Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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Facilities and Construction Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you Madam Chair and this item I brought forth last year and I bring it forth again because this year is the 25th anniversary and remembrance of the attacks on September 11th on our country and I I'm pretty sure all of us in this room can remember exactly where they were, what they were doing on that day, because it was one that was just, will go down in history, but many of our students, not all of them, because they're graduating at 18, 17, 18, they weren't even born. So I think it's imperative that we commemorate that, teach our students about that, and also make them realize the…”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, thank you Madam Chair and Board Member Espino, the maker of the item, I love this item. Anytime that we emphasize our history of our nation, anytime that we promote civic responsibility is something that I'll always support. I remember when I was in the classroom teaching on Constitution Day, we would do a very extensive lesson on the preamble. of the Constitution and the students had to actually memorize it. And I think that's something that's so important that our students know and that they understand. So thank you for bringing the item. I look forward to co-sponsoring it.”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. And at this time, I do not have any public speakers. So Madam Chair, please present your item.”
School Board · Jul 22, 2026
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“Thank you, thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for being here and joining us today and with this great honor. At this time, I'll turn it over to my colleagues, Board Member Blanco.”
School Board · Jul 22, 2026
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“Thank you, and at this time, Board Member Dorothy Bendres-Mentengal.”
School Board · Jul 22, 2026
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School Board · Jul 22, 2026