Paraguay Paraguay Old U.S Post Office and Courthouse (Miami Florida).jpg On June 12 2009 FIU's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to rename the University Park campus to the Modesto Maidique Campus However the change created a large backlash from the FIU community as many felt it unfitting to name the campus after him a campaign by FIU students and alumni was created to revert the name change and to keep the name University Park a Facebook group "No to Maidique's Campus" with over 2,000 supporters has made national news in many newspapers TV news stations and collegiate magazines supporting to keep the name "University Park". . Richard Blanco Native people, Several financial scandals involving the Mayor's office and City Commission during the 1980s and 1990s left Miami with the title of the United States' 4th poorest city by 1996 With a budget shortfall of $68 Million and its municipal bonds given a junk bond rating by Wall Street in 1997 Miami became Florida's first city to have a state appointed oversight board assigned to it in the same year city voters rejected a resolution to dissolve the city and make it one entity with Dade County the City's financial problems continued until political outsider Manny Diaz was elected Mayor of Miami in 2001. Physical and social factors Further information: History of Miami!
FIU also has other smaller regional centers located throughout South Florida in both Miami-Dade County and Broward County serving the local communities in research continuing studies and in culture in Broward County there is the FIU Pines Center in Pembroke Pines opened to satisfy the demand from Broward County residents This center serves mostly night students in programs within the College of Business Administration in Miami-Dade County there are four regional FIU facilities the Downtown Miami Center the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in Miami Beach (Washington Avenue and 10th St) the FIU-Florida Memorial research center in Miami Gardens and a research site in Homestead; City of Miami Cemetery, The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science founded by F.G Walton Smith is the University of Miami's graduate school of marine and atmospheric science Dr Roni Avissar is the Dean of the Rosenstiel School Located on a 16-acre (65,000-square-metre) campus on Virginia Key in Miami it is the only tropical applied and basic marine and atmospheric research institute of its kind in the continental United States the Rosenstiel School conducts a broad range of research on local regional national and global levels More than 100 Ph.D faculty members 150 graduate students and a research support and administrative staff of 250 comprise the academic community, In 1937 the local Ku Klux Klan raided La Paloma an LGBT nightclub After the non-lethal raid the nightclub became a site of a more solidified LGBT community and resistance against conservative sexual laws. 3 Demographics Following Hurricane Andrew in 1992 Dade County was commended for its speed at rebuilding and reopening schools Most schools reopened within two weeks of the storm and students who attended schools that had been completely destroyed were quickly displaced with free and efficient bus transportation the district also used funding from the disaster to redo its entire curriculum adding sex education to elementary schools and foreign language programs to middle schools it opened fully funded magnet schools such as Coral Reef High School and Southwood Middle School which take in students from all over the county based on school performance (some schools are partial magnets which also enroll students from surrounding neighborhoods while some are full magnets that only take students based on merit) the district also re-opened Coral Way Elementary as its first bilingual school which teaches its curriculum in both English and Spanish, This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (January 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message), The island was named by Frederick H Gerdes of the United States Coast Survey in 1849 He noted that the island north of Key Biscayne had no name and had not existed as an island until 'Narrows Cut' had broken through "ten or twelve" years before (i.e the hurricane of 1835 or 1838) He described Virginia Key as three miles (5 km) long and one mile (1.6 km) wide (later as five miles (8 km) long and one-and-a-half miles wide) with a fine Atlantic beach but mostly covered with mangroves. The British governors were directed to call general assemblies as soon as possible in order to make laws for the Floridas and in the meantime they were with the advice of councils to establish courts This was the first introduction of the English-derived legal system which Florida still has today including trial by jury habeas corpus and county-based government Neither East Florida nor West Florida sent any representatives to Philadelphia to draft the Declaration of Independence Florida remained a Loyalist stronghold for the duration of the American Revolution. .
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