In 1961 the school system started a "Spanish for Spanish" program With help from the Ford Foundation the program was modified into a full bilingual education curriculum with a pilot program at Coral Way Elementary School the program was successful and paved the way for the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, Downtown's largest and most popular parks are Bayfront Park Museum Park and Pace Park Bayfront Park is host to the free DWTWN Concert Series put on weekly in the park's amphitheater as well as various other annual events such as the Orange Drop for New Year's Bike Miami and the "America's Birthday Bash at Bayfront Park" for Independence Day Bayfront Park hosts many large outdoor concerts such as Warped Tour and Ultra Music Festival Formerly Bicentennial Park Museum Park has been redone and is now the site for new buildings for the Miami Art Museum and the Miami Science Museum! University Park Apartments 1986 1 Names In October 2001 Deputy Superintendent Henry Fraind retired under pressure after it was discovered that a clique of longtime administrators and powerful outsiders had exploited the district's vast resources Fraind had received his Ph.D from Pacific Western University (Hawaii) in 1982 a noted diploma mill.
Some sections of the state feature architectural styles including Spanish revival Florida vernacular and Mediterranean Revival a notable collection of these styles can be found in St Augustine the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement within the borders of the United States, Cities 1990 Census 1,937,094 This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it (July 2011); Tourism University of Miami See also: List of mayors of Miami Rum-runners used the Everglades as a hiding spot during Prohibition; it was so vast there were never enough law enforcement officers to patrol it the arrival of the railroad and the discovery that adding trace elements like copper was the remedy for crops sprouting and dying quickly soon created a population boom New towns such as Moore Haven Clewiston and Belle Glade sprouted like the crops Sugarcane became the primary crop grown in South Florida Miami experienced a second real estate boom that earned a developer in Coral Gables $150 million Undeveloped land north of Miami sold for $30,600 an acre in 1925 Miami newspapers published editions weighing over 7 pounds (3.2 kg) most of it in real estate advertising Waterfront property was the most highly valued Mangrove trees were cut down and replaced with palm trees to improve the view Acres of South Florida slash pine were cleared Some of the pine was for lumber but most of the pine forests in Dade County were cleared for development. Map of Caribbean showing seven approximately parallel westward-pointing arrows that extend from east of the Virgin Islands to Cuba the southern arrows bend northward just east of the Dominican Republic before straightening out again. Miami Dade College (public) 2.2 1940s: World War II 6.5 Flood control Unlike a consolidated city-county where the city and county governments merge into a single entity these two entities are separate Instead there are two "tiers" or levels of government: city and county There are 34 municipalities in the county the City of Miami being the largest. Cuban refugees arriving in crowded boats during the Mariel Boatlift crisis School of Music 6 Awards Water is the dominant force in the Everglades shaping the land vegetation and animal life in South Florida Starting at the last glacial maximum 21,000 years ago continental ice sheets retreated and sea levels rose This submerged portions of the Florida peninsula and caused the water table to rise Fresh water saturated the limestone that underlies the Everglades eroding some of it away and created springs and sinkholes the abundance of fresh water allowed new vegetation to take root and formed convective thunderstorms over the land through evaporation!
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