Saeid Badie, DDS

Throughout the 1980s the school district was recognized for expertly assimilating wave after wave of new immigrants particularly children from Nicaragua and Haiti and from Cuba's Mariel Boatlift it was highly regarded for its handling of displaced students after the 1982 Miami riot in which 14 schools were badly damaged due to fire and vandalism.[citation needed] the Haitian students who came during the 1980s and 1990s were mostly low income and high school-aged students generally attended Miami Edison High School, Government Center is one of the main stations for Metrorail and Metromover. Chambers of commerce Democratic 600,258 41.65%, Florida has many seaports that serve container ships tank ships and cruise lines Major ports in Florida include Port Tampa Bay in Tampa Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale Port of Jacksonville in Jacksonville PortMiami in Miami Port Canaveral in Brevard County Port Manatee in Manatee County and Port of Palm Beach in Riviera Beach the world's top three busiest cruise ports are found in Florida with PortMiami as the busiest and Port Canaveral and Port Everglades as the second and third busiest Port Tampa Bay meanwhile is the largest in the state having the most tonnage as of 2013 Port Tampa Bay ranks 16th in the United States by tonnage in domestic trade 32nd in foreign trade and 22nd in total trade It is the largest most diversified port in Florida has an economic impact of more than $15.1 billion and supports over 80,000 jobs, Pacific Islander: 0.1% [3,527] On March 3 1845 only one day before the end of President John Tyler's term in office Florida became the 27th state to join the United States of America the state was admitted as a slave state and ceased to be a sanctuary for runaway slaves Initially its population grew slowly.

See also: List of counties in Florida List of places in Florida List of municipalities in Florida List of islands of Florida and List of Florida state parks, Soccer: Miami Gatos (NASL) Miami Toros (NASL), Water masses 10 External links After desegregation Bethune Elementary was converted into a head-start school. 4.1 Miami accent Miami Dade College (public), 2.1 Communities Citrus canker continues to be an issue of concern From 1997 to 2013 the growing of citrus trees has declined 25% from 600,000 acres (240,000 ha) to 450,000 acres (180,000 ha) Citrus greening disease is incurable a study states that it has caused the loss of $4.5 billion between 2006 and 2012 as of 2014 it was the major agricultural concern, Technological risk Calle Ocho. . As of 2010 70.2% of Miami's population age five and over spoke only Spanish at home while 22.7% of the population spoke English at home About 6.3% spoke other Indo-European languages at home About 0.4% spoke Asian languages or Pacific Islander languages/Oceanic languages at home the remaining 0.3% of the population spoke other languages at home in total 77.3% spoke another language other than English. ! . Interior view of concourse D, Cities are the "lower tier" of local government providing police and fire protection zoning and code enforcement and other typical city services within their jurisdiction These services are paid for by city taxes the County is the "upper tier" and it provides services of a metropolitan nature such as emergency management airport and seaport operations public housing and health care services transportation environmental services solid waste disposal etc These are funded by county taxes which are assessed on all incorporated and unincorporated areas; .