1616-25 Miami Herald Espanola Way �' �r crowding in a district that is 370,000
• r7.,. t li ,:j,_ 'I I �;.r*"..• still short of almost 60,000 360,000
R` permanent student worksta- 350,000 1
tions,officials said. 340,000 �
- Superintendent Merrett 330000 I ■ _ I L I I
---•- ' Stierheim said he was"blind- 320,000 n ' I I l Ali
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PLAZA DE ESPANA:Rendering shows how plaza's open design will sided"by the enrollment drop- �0 , 1 , I ' " 1 , I
transform the intersection of Espanola Way and Drekel Avenue. off,which was first noticed in300 000
the opening weeks of school 93.94 94-95 00_06 9s-9r 97-96 96-99 96-96 00-oi
when fewer than half the YEAR PYOJECI>D
Plaza to enhance expected number of new TUB PROJECTED AC1UiLL
foreign-born students regis- 03-94 309,000 306,995 91-99 343,500
tered. 94-95
Spanish inf luenee 318,000 315,511 • _—
000
He responded by ordering a 95-00 330,000 326,292 00� 361,000
• • teacher hiring freeze and
establishing an$ll million ape 96-9 336,500 333,420 91- 310.500
cial fund to cover some of the 97-96 340 0,500 338,399 82 •SOI
losses. source Miami-Dade County Pubic Schools
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BY MATTHEW I.PINZUR —cover everything except the increasing class size or even within 1 percent of actual befoorr a drop-off in a
r usigfserald com 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 ° to study
the
aenstudent
totals,
ncludingana- w44r
worked before. The rough- months. ls d schoolsdrt need senoverall zuela,don Pt
hewn stucco,the ceramic tile It was designed by a Spanish to make the same adjustments, trends in the past three years, Haiti,down 25 pen
roofs and the wrought-iron bal- architect,Pedro Pan Datorre, because
they'reusestill
iggrowing
ls .at rev
chviewing
nges in individualer-t -year America influx
s tt
cocare like a Mediterranean the uncle oRoberto enDatorre, Y P.
backdrop draped over South Community Development Cor- School districts, some and using a state formula because of the
an
Beach's Art Deco district. It poration president. The raw demographic experts say,are based on U.S.Census Bureau crunch there,"
immigr
was convincing enough' for materials and Datorre's ser- wetnesen s d as immigration
raof in first data.
The result:The computers ney Behar,in Fort Laude
Miami rVice, which used the vices are donations from Spain things many new arrivals do is spit out 11 estimates that are ple don't come
neighborhood as itsa CentralpiPOSITIVE SIGNS enroll their children in schooL used to form the district's offi- when
money official:
American town in last epi- cial estimate.
sods runt the plansepiqued and interest,tren- A BROADER TREND? In addition, Gaetjens and estimated the poi
Which is all k impres-mmuandanRobinsonsieearly What remains unclear is fellow staffers track other fac-
state e uary program
sive that couldomthree-block commit s Roinssaid the early whether the drop in projected 'tors that historically
tinside thatPlayer Stadium.ditly fit signsare visions
he miragero mWithurdlounge,a Parisian student
roader demographic trend homts indicates e enrollment:
employment rationsirth rates, new Scholarships."
sdollar-fo
The is incomplete,Tte, restaurant and leased thear- Ind tion for school tuitionsfo8
though, broken up by The old Gianluca Pinto the that will persist throughout rolls,economic conditions in credits for fund
Av
Way's intersection.Awith wouldDrexel core.• the plaza's southwest thi"s I mhroally surprised into
by the U.S. America,eventhestrength of dents.About 3,000
mark it r tape 70 measureetwide, ut corner.
mark it around feet but "It's to a very chill decline t in numbers,and It the U.S. inlNovember,district lar. thistiryear to trans
it seems so much more.The' kind. of area,"said Pinto,a for- a loss to come up with a good offichials convene an estimating students used the
Spanish village's lone block of mer manager al South Beach's answer," ratd Thon ps Bat ell,the frl and
t l give to ones, Patric
west of Drexel is a skeleton of trendy Nikki Beach Club, an immigration expert at the conference and settle on an schools, includes
the vibrant street to the east,its describing his cafe and the University of1Miami.s Miami- the state.They can modify that president,saidof Mill
striking buildings made hollow neighborhood around it."Not a One thing
by boarded-up storefronts and like the club'scene." Dade officials said:Projecting figure until three weeks into ridians for Sc
A bit up the road,the Miami next year's enrollment will be the spring legislative session. which helps ad
shattered windows. gThis year,in fact,the dis- program.
But Randall Robinson,Miami, an Beache Film Society is cinema- difficult."We
planner with the its headquarters and cinema- "We're desperate," con- trict stuck to the low end of The corporate
urban ceded school demographer statistical
projections,
ojecti o0 studs is coupled
s s
Beach Community Develop-opes thequet' this g winto ter. Sonia Gaetjens."The unknown ing gr
mens Corpimprovementoration, project,pa place," Har-"IppgninganowpaBut officials now realize given to student
$chedule ocmplet nnext a et Dinars, ohasaid a factEnrollment or looms very large." underestimated
sc
month,w for bring tab a at t,who hioperated y which must be submittttedeto downturn in newly arrived stu- account accoug nted month,will nthat block table at the street's weekly
into the tiny neighborhood's open-air market for seven years the state every December,are dents.Last school year,the dis- Miami-Dade's
blooming success.The inter- and is preparing to move into a the starting point for figuring tric8'was swamped with 19,000 drop.
section is being reborn as the storefront to sell cards,candles the
vdi district's
classroomsbudget to from new
foreign-borneduring the 1980 N
Plaza de Espana Fitting,it the and unusual gifts. hothe following year to how Mariel boatlift from Cuba.This
model a Spanish curbs, side-
For 39-year-oldn Robinson, expects „,,A,r„pn�E C
be built without curbs, side- who was born in Colombia, many schools to build over the yearathe district halfimi C
walks or gutters and laid with raised near Philadelphia and nextdecal our sales forecast” IMMIGRANTS KEY -
il
dusky paving stories in an Ibe- settled in Miami Beach, the
clan diamond-checkerboard Spanish village embodies the Hinds said. "It forms every "Our growth is Yeled by
pattern. best spirit of historic preserva- other part of the budget."
tion — giving a patchwork• Much like hurricane fore- foreign students,"Hinds said, h
CENTER FOUNTAIN community something of a casting,
estimating
t ngt ine exact c student "and the
bottom
ttomrtmst ll figures ti -
The centerpiece fou will be a shared culture. population s -
foot-diameter fountain in the "Historic architecture ence:"Part art,part instinct released last week showed epi-- `'T
plaza.Although it's still months enhances people's lives,builds and Des part
reflex,"
year's ens said. d n he numberce of a a ofis migrants 1
from being built and will likely on our past,"he said."When P t
be the last part of the new you don't preserve great archi- ammate, the on the mtstrict has been ost skilled in the About 7 8 the
million people
plaza,its creation is the origin tecture,person's
it's almost like taking a state over the past decade at applied for U.S.visas since the t
of the entire plan. memory away." l
Beach officials wanted to
commemorate a 1997 trip to the y • e= •
Spanish province Huelva, .../ I .
, %t ;t c $ —
where leaders told the story of ; ;'`�, ' 1 1, <, I I (' ) r'
Miami Beach's renaissance.
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