Days after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration ordered Miami schools to open more than two weeks earlier than planned, the Miami-Dade County School Board voted Tuesday evening not to buck the state and to start bringing students back into school on Oct. 5.⁣
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After hours of discussing the repercussions of rejecting Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran’s directive to reopen early — including the possibility of losing millions of dollars in state funding — board members overseeing the country’s fourth-largest district unanimously agreed to open schools five days a week on a staggered schedule. They also said they would seek dispensation from the state for those schools not ready to open.⁣