Jacksonville University

; In Florida each county is also a school district Miami-Dade County Public Schools is operated by an independently elected School Board a professional Superintendent of Schools appointed by the School Board manages the district's day-to-day operations as of 2014 the Miami-Dade County Public School District is the fourth-largest public school district in the nation with almost 360,000 students. . . The cost of restoring the rail link between the port and the Hialeah Railyard was estimated at $46.9 million $28 million of which was applied for through a federal grant in 2010 Later that year a grant of $22 million was awarded for this project as well as to build an on site intermodal rail yard at the port During the 2000s the percent of Florida East Coast Railway's business has increased from around 60% to around 80% intermodal freight However this was partially due to a decrease in other freight traffic caused by the 2008 recession which reduced the number of trains many carrying rock aggregate used in construction from about 20 to 14 per day. Barry College became Barry University on November 13 1981 Barry University continues to be sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Adrian Michigan it is an independent 501(c) (3) organization and has an independent Board of Trustees, On November 14 2008 Maidique announced that he would be stepping down and asked FIU's Board of Trustees to begin the search of a new president He said he would remain president until a new one was found on April 25 2009 Mark B Rosenberg was selected to become FIU's fifth president He signed a five-year contract with the Board of Trustees on August 29 2009 Rosenberg became FIU's fifth president, 3 Academics In 1961 the school system started a "Spanish for Spanish" program With help from the Ford Foundation the program was modified into a full bilingual education curriculum with a pilot program at Coral Way Elementary School the program was successful and paved the way for the Bilingual Education Act of 1968. Economy Wet season 34.5 inches (88 cm) 53.5 inches (136 cm) 23.4 inches (59 cm); 1910 5,471 225.5% The Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library contains more than 710,000 items including 2,600 periodical titles 5,000 audiovisual items 150 electronic databases and an "excellent Catholic American collection." the library also contains a collection of documents pertaining to Operation Pedro Pan.

. Miami-Dade County is only about 6 feet (1.8 m) above sea level It is rather new geologically and is at the eastern edge of the Florida Platform a carbonate plateau created millions of years ago Eastern Dade is composed of Oolite limestone while western Dade is composed mostly of Bryozoa Miami-Dade is among the last areas of Florida to be created and populated with fauna and flora mostly in the Pleistocene. Academics There are four major projects related to PortMiami which are all scheduled to be ready by 2014: the expansion of the Panama Canal the PortMiami Deep Dredge Project the PortMiami Tunnel and the restoration of the bridge and rail line connecting the PortMiami to the mainland.