Brickell Loop Education: in 2005 83% of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 30% had a bachelor's degree or higher Among people 16 to 19 years old 7% were dropouts; they were not enrolled in school and had not yet graduated from high school the total school enrollment in the Miami Metro Area was 1.4 million in 2005 Nursery school and kindergarten enrollment was 170,000 and elementary or high school enrollment was 879,000 children College or graduate school enrollment was 354,000. Since the development of the federal NASA Merritt Island launch sites on Cape Canaveral (most notably Kennedy Space Center) in 1962 Florida has developed a sizable aerospace industry. The Miami-Dade Police Department is a full-service metropolitan police department serving Miami-Dade County's unincorporated areas although it has lenient mutual aid agreements with other municipalities most often the City of Miami Police Department With 4,700 employees it is Florida's largest police department the Department is often referred to by its former name the Metro-Dade Police or simply Metro. 1940 387,522 80.4% Rail transport in South Florida The Homestead-Miami Speedway oval has hosted NASCAR Cup Series and IndyCar Series events Temporary street circuits at Museum Park hosted several CART IMSA GT and American Le Mans Series races between from 1986-1995 as well as a Formula E race in 2015 the Palm Beach International Raceway is a minor road course. 1880 257 202.4% 5.5 Mangrove and Coastal prairie 13.3 Hotel towers Also in 1933 the Miami City Commission asked the Miami Women's Club to create a city flag design the flag was designed by Charles L Gmeinder on their behalf and adopted by City Commission in November 1933 It is unknown why the orange and green colors were selected for the flag One theory is that the colors were inspired by the orange tree although the University of Miami was already using the colors of orange and green for their sports teams since 1926.
. . . Public transit 1 Early settlement 1900s to 1930s: the Magic City, In the 2025 and 2030 long range transportation plans Miami's commuter rail system Tri-Rail has envisioned moving to or adding service on the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) corridor which runs along the region's densest neighborhoods parallel to Biscayne Boulevard in Miami and Federal Highway in Broward and Palm Beach counties. The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) is one of the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Facilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) NOAA/AOML is a part of the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and is located in Miami Florida AOML's mission is to conduct basic and applied research in oceanography tropical meteorology atmospheric and oceanic chemistry and acoustics the research seeks to understand the physical characteristics and processes of the ocean and the atmosphere both separately and as a coupled system. Over time there have been numerous proposals for partitioning the state of Florida to form a separate state of South Florida Such proposals have usually been made as political statement rather than serious attempts at secession Reasons often stated are cultural ethnic economic and financial frustrations with the state government in Tallahassee which is in North Florida. See also: Sport in Miami Police Department. .
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