Student media, Beginning April 26 2004 under then new superintendent Dr Rudy Crew the school year was begun three weeks earlier in order to synchronize the school district with the rest of the state Until this point Miami-Dade County Schools was the only district whose students began school the last week of August rather than the first This measure was also implemented to allow schools more time to ready themselves for the state's FCAT exam, Admits 20,364 19,126 18,013 17,962 16,748 6.3 South Atlantic 9.1 Airports Westwood Lakes. A A clump of mangroves in the distance Florida Bay at Flamingo, Map of Miami in 1955, The Wolfsonian Library is located at the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in South Beach on the corner of Washington Avenue and 10th Street the collection focuses exclusively on architecture art design and history of the Western World from 1885 to 1945 the library serves mostly as a research library with an extensive collection of primary sources for students prior approval from the staff is needed to enter the library; . S? In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections Barack Obama carried the state as a northern Democrat attracting high voter turnout especially among the young Independents and minority voters of whom Hispanics comprise an increasingly large proportion 2008 marked the first time since 1944 when Franklin D Roosevelt carried the state for the fourth time that Florida was carried by a Northern Democrat for president.
The southern side of Miami includes the neighborhoods of Coral Way the Roads and Coconut Grove Coral Way is a historic residential neighborhood built in 1922 between Downtown and Coral Gables and is home to many old homes and tree-lined streets Coconut Grove established in 1825 is a historic neighborhood with narrow winding roads and a heavy tree canopy It is the location of Miami's City Hall at Dinner Key the former Coconut Grove Playhouse CocoWalk and the Coconut Grove Convention Center It is also home to many nightclubs bars restaurants and bohemian shops which makes it very popular with local college students Coconut Grove is known for its many parks and gardens such as Vizcaya Museum the Kampong the Barnacle Historic State Park and numerous other historic homes and estates, Traveling to Work: 79% of Miami area workers drove to work alone in 2005 10% carpooled 4% took public transportation and 4% used other means the remaining 3% worked at home Among those who commuted to work it took them on average 28.5 minutes to get to work. . 5 Later years Scientific explorations of the Atlantic include the Challenger expedition the German Meteor expedition Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the United States Navy Hydrographic Office. . . Economy Miami Wind Symphony, San Juan Campus, 8.2 Culture and wildlife Map of Miami in 1955. .
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