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El Portal is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The name is derived from the Spanish term for "the gate", after two wooden gates that once stood as a gateway to the village. El Portal was originally annexed into the city of Miami in 1925. [5] With the arrival of the Great Depression, Miami gave up its jurisdiction, and El ...
Miami Dade College ( Miami Dade, MDC or Dade) [7] is a public college in Miami, Florida. Founded in 1959, it has a total of eight campuses [8] and twenty-one outreach centers throughout Miami-Dade County.
Florida has twenty judicial circuits. Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe, Palm Beach and Hillsborough are the only counties which are coterminous with their respective judicial circuits. In the rest of the state, a single judicial circuit encompasses multiple counties within its jurisdiction.
The Miami-Dade Police Department ( MDPD ), formerly known as the Dade County Sheriff's Office (1836–1957), Dade County Public Safety Department (1957–1981), and the Metro-Dade Police Department (1981–1997), is a county police department serving Miami-Dade County. The MDPD has approximately 4,700 employees, making it the largest police department in the southeastern United States and the ...
The government of Miami-Dade County is defined and authorized under the Constitution of Florida, Florida law, and the Home Rule Charter of Miami-Dade County. [1] Since its formation in 1957, Miami-Dade County, Florida has had a two-tier system of government. Under this system, Miami-Dade comprises a large unincorporated area and 34 incorporated ...
A 3-year-old child in Florida accidentally shot himself in the foot after he found a gun that belonged to his mother, a Miami-Dade County school police officer.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools is one of a few public school districts in the U.S. to offer optional international studies programs and bilingual education. Bilingual education is offered in Spanish, French, German, Haitian Creole, and Mandarin Chinese. M-DCPS is the only school district in Florida to offer bilingual education in Mandarin.
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