WLRN Public Media | By Natalie La Roche Pietri
This story was originally produced by WLRN , South Florida’s only public radio station at 91.3 FM, as part of a content sharing partnership with Miami’s Community News. Read more at WLRN .org.
Despite already slashing its budget halfway through this school year, the Miami-Dade County school district is set to make further cuts in 2027-28 amid an “unprecedented” enrollment drop, the district’s financial chief told WLRN.
Miami-Dade County schools, the third largest district in the country, this academic year had313,000 students—13,200 fewer than in the 2024-25 school year.
Although the district has gone through financial crises in the past, from hurricanes to the 2008 recession, this situation is different, according to district’s Chief Financial Officer Ron Steiger. “ It’s not unprecedented that we’re dealing with a serious problem,” he said. “What’s unprecedented is this particular problem that we’re dealing with.”…