150 SW 13th Avenue, Miami, FL  33135
Phone  (786) 264-1708; Fax  (786) 264-1859
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Migrant Children in Homestead
Win Back School!
    July 10, 2009

    Congratulations to the children & residents of the Redland & South
    Dade Labor Centers! Although many of you may have seen in the
    Miami-Herald this morning that the Homestead Housing Authority and
    the Miami-Dade County School Board reached an agreement to
    reopen the Migrant Educational Program on Monday, July 13, that was
    not quite the case. While an agreement appeared to have been
    reached, Edmund Carrera of the HHA once again began to make
    changes to the signed contract this morning.

    We discovered this when we, along with other supporters, parents, &
    children arrived at the Redland Labor Center to thank Mr. Carrera and
    to help prepare the school for Monday’s session. Though Mr. Carrera
    called the police, who asked us to leave the camp, everyone
    remained peaceably assembled along US 1, receiving supporting
    honks and shouts from passing cars.

    After several hours of negotiation between the School Board attorney
    and the attorney for the HHA, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho
    arrived at the camp with the contract. At 4:40 pm, Superintendent
    Carvalho announced the signed agreement to the gathered crowd;
    shouts and tears followed as Florida Farmworker Association Director
    Tirso Moreno thanked everyone for their efforts.

    To view pictures from this campaign, click here.
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