1616-44 Various Miami Beach .. y CVCIr Wua uv.......... _. -- .._.
i--, crowding in a district that is 370,900
(1 ; I still short of almost 60,000 360,000
• '- - permanent student worksta- 354000- I ' I
_ tions,officials said. 340,000---
-
Superintendent Merrett 334000 n i j ' j , j , j
111 Stierheim said he was"blind- 320000
IIIIIII
Nt.\k PLAZA DE ESPAAA:Rendering shows how plaza's open design will sided"by the enrollment drop- 3s first noticed in to'__
1 �`"lit transform the intersection of Espanola Way and Drexel Avenue. the open nch g weeks of school '� g phgb 6548 96-57 9-99 91 11 M 11 Iwo
when fewer than half the
• 0\ Plaza Plaza to enhance expected number of new YEAR ACTUAL YEAR LO y foreign-born students aegis- 93 W 309000 ?,pfi gg5 110-00 343,500
tered. gds 318,000 315,511 1100 352,000
He responded by ordering a 95-95 330,0001326.292 tt0� ,000
• h influence
teacher hiring freeze and S apish establishing an SU million see- 9691 336,500 333,420 01-01 370.500
cial fund to cover some of the 17-99 340,500 338,399 i 374.500
•
losses. SOURCE:Mtarnl-Dada County Public Schools
If students continue to leave u--
the
o n E s a n o l a Way students
-ye r to leave
1 1 If
may resort st more
1�.J drastic mid-year adjustments: accurately estimating student Sept.11 terrorist tett.
shifting teachers and students, population, projecting to 26 percent from
BY MATTHEW I.PINZUR —cover everything except the increasing class size or even within 1 percent of actual befoorr a fop orf in a
mpnzuri0ieraldcom fountain itself.That,Robinson closing under-enrolled enrollment.
said,will be paid for through schools. He has convened a School officials use several was particularly hi
The illusion of Espanola private fundraising,which he task force of top district offi- statistical models to project America and the
Way as a Spanish village has hopes will take only four cials toward study
sthe altern't need student ota als,including
Bra il,down, down 44 pr
worked before. rThe rough- months.
stucco, was designed by a Spanish make same
ittrends
ithe
past
Haiti, µn 25 xe-
rhewn oofs and the the ceramic tile It wrought-ironbal- architect,Pedro Pan Date, beaethey' still gowngat reviewing yearn-to-year Theinluf
conies are like a
s
backdrop draped over South ComnnunityMrranean the uncle ofDevelopment Cor- ahSchoolhofficials
districts,said.
some and uindividuals in
Roberto Datorre, ethy sing astateformula becausea dc
of the
Behar,an i re,"
Beach's Art Deco district. It poration president. The raw demographic experts say,are based on U.S.Census Bureau crunch there,"
migr
was convincing enough for materials and Datorre's ser- often used as immigration bell- data a r,don'tn come
Miami Vice, which used the vices are donations from Spain- wethermann new arrivalsof the
first
dis spit out 11 estimates The computers that ney in Fort Laude
neighborhood as itsa Centralepithings POSITIVE SIGNS enroll their children in school. used to form the district's offi- when money
y is tig
official:
American town in last epi- cial estimate. District
soda Just the plans and artist ren- A BROADER TREND? In addition, Gaetjens and estimated the poi
Which is all lik oinmu- and o hoe dd interest,
sive for acouldthree-blockom tammft and Robinson said the early whether the drop in projected 'fellow staffers track other
that historically influefac- state nce uary programcalSFl
nisi athat Stadium.
fit signsarevisions
t
inside Pro Player mWith via d lounge,a Parisian at broader den ographic[cates trend home sales ent:bunemployment ratirth rates, new tiionsships."dollar Ifo
The mirage is up by Tte, restaurant andin o ar-theIt in . schooledittuitionsfoi
though, broken up by The old Gianluca Pinto leased the that will persist throughout rolls,economic conditions in credits for fund
Way's intersection n Drexel corner.,
on the plaza's southwest this
school rally ser prised by the U.S.visas,even to next. Latin America.athe strength of dents.bout 3,000
mark it tape measureetwould ut corn
mark it around 70 feet wide,but "It's going to be a very chill decline in numbers,and I'm at the U.S. in dollar.
it Spann h village's loneeblock kindemanager at South Beach's answeof area,"said Pinto,a for- a loss r'said Thomas Boswcome up with a ell, officald sconvene an district
this year to trans
i
west of Drexel is a skeleton of trendy Nikki Beach Club, an immigration expert at the confer ne [Dego a to n an schools,
i Patric
the vibrant street to the east,its describing his cafe and the University of Miami. projection
striking buildings made hollow neighborhood around it."Not DadeOne officialss said:in,PrMiami-jecting the state.
Thy threeaweeksifinto president
tesidento of
Set
byh shattered
storefronts and like thei up oa:'
shattered windows. A bit up the road,the Miami next year's enrollment will be the spring This yeargtin slatitact Sthe cis- program.
h �ich helps ad
But Randall Robinson, an Beach Film Society is opening difficult.
-i- urban planner with the Miami its headquarters and cinema- "We're desperate," con- trict stuck to the low end of The corporate
Beach Community Develop- theque this winter. ceded school demographer statistical projections,estimat- coupled with set
ment Corporation, hopes a "It's going to be a now place, Sonia Gaetjens."The unknown ing growth
thoftoals cialssaid
0wstu enze "veno o sts. tudt improvement project, a happening place,"said Har- factor looms very large."
moth,will rbrng that block table tatrthehstreet se weekly which must be submtitttted to downturn in newlys, they vastly failing
arrived stu- accountedfor
into the tiny neighborhood's open-air market for seven years the state every December,are dents.Last school y t 1e,000 Mr,the dis- op i-Dade's
blooming success.The inter- and is preparing to move into a the starting point for figuring trict was swamped
section is being reborn as the storefront to sell cards,candles the
dmany classroomstrict's udget to staff morerom new f ores dbo n the 1980
mk
Plaza de Espana. Fitting the and unusual gifts.
how model of a Spanish plaza it will For 39-year-old Robinson, the following year to how Marie,boatlift from Cuba This C
be built without curbs, side- who was burn in Colombia, many schools to build over the ye. ear
the district expects half
MIAMI II
walks or gutters and laid with raised near Philadelphia and nextdec dis our sales forecast" IMMIGRANTSumber. KEY -
dusky paving stones in an lbe- settled in Miami Beach, the
pian diamond-checkerboard Spanish
village storicpreservodies a- other
said. "It forms part of the budget."
"Our growth is fueled by
pattern
tion — giving a patchwork• Much like hurricane fore- foreign students,"Hinds said, i
CENTER FOUNTAIN community something of a casting,estimating
satingthestuctsent "and
tStahe bottom
rtmjust
fell
lgut." ,.4,1;111:4;—,' .,
The centerpiece will be a 16- shared culture. population instinct released last week showed evil • -• ,I.:7; _
foot-diameter fountain in the "Historic architecture ence: "Part art,part
plaza.Although it's still months enhances people's lives,builds and part reflex,"Gaetjens said. dence of a dramatic downturn
from being built and will likely on our past;"he said."When Despite this year's overesti- in the number of migrants
be the lst part o -
ate,
he
United States. :
plaza,itsacreat on sf the origin tecture,it's almost like takingtt
the new you don't reserve a amongtdistrict
the most skilled in the About n�the
8 million people
state over the past decade at applied for US.visas since the (
of the entire plan. person's memory away." t
Beach officials wanted to — -- —_!
commemorate a 1997 trip to the = .,.. I
Spanish province Huelva, iI • • !! • f • "
where leaders told the story of '
-
Miami Beach's renaissance. Dr
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