I couldn't believe they actually used to go to the migrant camps and babysit their kids on the taxpayers expense. I am gald this is gone. Let the Hispanic groups do it at their own expense.

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Homestead Children Get Left Out Of Summer School
DeFede: Homestead Children Get Education Cut

Art Barron
Reporting

(CBS4) HOMESTEAD Migrants and migrant activists in South Miami-Dade gathered at Homestead City Hall Monday night after a controversial decision by the Homestead housing authority got rid of the public schooling provided to their children.

Last month the Homestead Housing Authority gave a 90-day notice to Miami-Dade Public Schools telling them they could no longer operate inside the labor camps, which are mainly occupied by Mexican migrant workers. The school system had several portable classrooms located inside these camps, which provided children with education and parents with a place for their children to stay while they work.

Monday night dozens of concerned parents filled Homestead City Hall to protest the decision by the Housing Authority Director Ed Carrera to kick out the schools.

"Of course they need to be out in 90 days, they don't have a lease," said Carrera.

Carrera argues that they are implementing their own educational programs, providing 59 migrant children with schooling, but says that the school district is not cooperating with him.

"We've tried a variety of things to include them in our program, but they're not that concerned about," he said. "They're interested in doing their program."

However, activists such as Maria Garza, with the Mexican American Council, says that more than 350 children are being denied summer programs.

Mayor Roscoe Warren was dumbfounded by what's going on and wants immediate action to provide these children with classes.

"I am trusting that those words of encouragement turn into positive action," said Garza.

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