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Miami school district misused $6 million for driver’s ed programs, cars in horrible condition, report says

Miami-Dade County education officials misused $6 million intended for driver's education programs funded by traffic ticket fines that never went toward driving lessons at most of the schools it claimed taught such courses and failed to maintain a fleet of training cars that were found to be in horrendous conditions, including one that had served as an iguana nest, according to a report released earlier this month.

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Miami housing market tightens further

Miami’s real estate market remained red-hot during the three months through June as the work-from-home lifestyle fueled by the pandemic left buyers having to pay record prices as they sifted through a short supply of homes.