If all goes as planned, Florida's first public boarding school will open its doors this fall to an inaugural class of "at-risk" sixth-graders culled from Miami-Dade's poorest enclaves. The students--30 girls and 30 boys--will board in a complex in Kendall. SEED, the acclaimed charter school in D.C. modeled after private preparatory boarding schools, is running the place. [Miami Herald]
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