Today, Miami-Dade schools district is on track to have distributed 500,000 meals* since shuttering schools due to coronavirus in the FL county with the most cases

It’s a telling reminder of
poverty & need — & a notable beacon of help & effective governance so far

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Prior to locking down, Miami-Dade schools also distributed 85,000 laptops to needy students so they could learn online and the district —the 5th largest in the U.S. w/a huge population of poor kids — made a quick switch to online learning for its 360,000 students

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Now, no giant system that drastically changes operations amid a crisis to serve 360,000 is going to execute everything flawlessly. But as someone who covers govt, who has 3 kids in Miami-Dade schools & a wife working right now teaching kids online, I find this noteworthy 3/5

We’re not through with this crisis. It could take months. I’m not saying everything in Miami-Dade schools is perfect, that there’s no room for improvement or that things won’t go wrong. But so far, so good.

Let’s learn from this and do better everywhere. 4/5

* To circle back to why a school district is feeding kids: because we have to. Hungry children are a stain on society

For more about this county’s needy and hungry kids, read this 5/5 https://twitter.com/thisisud/status/1242838821470965761