The Florida Department of Education is about to commit a great injustice to Miami Central Senior High and Miami Edison Senior High. Education officials are preparing to shut down these two historic high schools that have been a part of the African American community for over 50 years. Students at Central and Edison have worked hard to turn around the overall grade performance at both schools since both faced a state shut down three years ago.
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Miami Central and Miami Edison are victims of charter school gangsters
High School Football Coaches Deserve More Cash
Florida — and Miami-Dade — seriously need to change the way high school football coaches are treated. I am a volunteer assistant coach for the Miami Central High School Rockets, so I know the amount of time and effort my colleagues put into preparing teenage boys for adulthood. Football is bigger here than in 47 of the 50 states.
These coaches are not being fairly compensated. Consider Texas, which is number two after California. In 2006, the Austin American-Statesman revealed that head coaches in classes 5A and 4A — schools with 950 or more students — made an average of $73,804 annually while teachers averaged about $42,400. The article cited then-Texas education commissioner Shirley Neeley: “Those football coaches put in more hours than people realize.”
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