Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho, School Board Member Dr. Steve Gallon III, Principal Lakesha M. Wilson-Rochelle and district representatives gathered at Scott Lake Elementary Oct. 5 to break ground on its general obligation bond (GOB) construction project at the Northwest Miami-Dade school. Slated to be completed on August 2018, the school district estimates the project…
Miami-Dade Public Schools will begin tracking improvement plans, teacher quality and resource allocation at F schools in the district under a proposal put forward by District 1 Board Member Steve Gallon. The measure, presented at the Dec. 14 board meeting, passed unanimously. All eight of Gallon’s colleagues signed on as sponsors —- a feat that reportedly…
Miami-Dade County Public Schools is looking to have a stocked pantry to have food ready for low-income children in the event a hurricane shuts disrupts the area. That’s the plan offered in a policy item that likely will be approved at Wednesday’s school board meeting. The proposal by District One Board Member Steve Gallon III…
Miami-Dade County District 1 School Board member Steve Gallon III, Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho, staff, students and community leaders gathered at Myrtle Grove K-8 Center last Tuesday for a ribbon-cutting event as part of the approval of a $1.2 billion General Obligation Bond. The bond received nearly 70 percent approval by voters in 2012. At…
Steve Gallon III, Miami-Dade School Board Member for District One, received the Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award from the National School Boards Association Council of Urban Boards of Education’s (CUBE). Micah Ali, chairman of the Council of Urban Boards of Education, lauded Gallon in announcing the honor. “For nearly 30 years, at every level…
August 15, 2017 Miami-Dade County Public Schools District 1 School Board Member Dr.Steve Gallon III was announced as a recipient of the National School Boards Association Council of Urban Boards of Education’s (CUBE) prestigious 2017 Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award. The Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual who—during his or her lifetime—has…
Breakthrough Miami Dr. Steve Gallon III had a great time speaking with the students of Breakthrough Miami on the importance of education and breaking through life’s obstacles in pursuit of one’s purpose and goals. Dr. Steve Gallon III believes in Breakthrough Miami’s mission in providing an academic enrichment program that uses a student-teaching-students model to…
Dr. Steve Gallon III stopped by the Village of El Portal to discuss issues of education, economics, and empowerment with the Women’s Democratic Club of Miami-Dade County. Dr. Steve Gallon III believes that empowerment in its literal context means to give power or warrant power. When we use the term women empowerment it means to create…
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