April 24, 2008. Mayor Robert Vernon.

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"I am telling you here – tonight -- that the rights and needs of the people who live here will be protected. That’s what you elected us to do and that’s what we are doing.

Included in the rights and needs of our community is the education of our children.

For many years, there have been discussions and plans to provide a high school for the children of our village. The conversations – and suggestions – have ranged from a public high school on Virginia Key -- to a Municipal Charter high school on the K-8 site – or elsewhere in the Village.
In this – as in other issues in the Village – I wish – as mayor – there was an easy solution. Alas, there rarely is. Many of our residents believe there are advantages to a Virginia Key location – such as parking and large athletic fields – and, of course, the easy commute for kids who now travel 11 miles each way to Coral Gables High.
 
Others offer persuasive reasons to build the Charter school right here in the core of our Village, where its curriculum and choice of activities are protected from outsider control. We are – right now – selecting education consultants to advise us as to the feasibility -- and the pros and cons -- of the choices available to us.

This is not about politics. This is about our kids. This is about their education. This is about enriching their futures."

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