Oliver Wendell Holmes		One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions			Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) is the fourth largest school system in the nation. The large urban district is comprised of six "Regions", each with a regional superintendent and administrative staff. In all, there are over 345,000 students in the district. In order to meet the needs of the students, there are more than 43,000 full and part-time staff (over 17,000 of whom are teachers) in 302 schools (201 elementary schools; 52 middle schools; 31 high schools; and 18 alternative/specialized schools). The district is the recipient of several federal grants aimed at implementing systemwide change in the way services are provided for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students through such means as technology implementation, school-home-community engagement and various collaborative efforts. Ninety-four different languages are represented within the districts' LEP population, with Spanish (85%), Haitian/Creole (12%) and Portuguese (1%) being the top three. Given the demographic make-up of the district, bilingual programs play a significant role in the education of the students. In MDCPS, there are five types of programs specifically geared toward LEP students: English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Spanish for Spanish Speakers, Elementary Spanish as Second Language, Secondary Foreign Languages (Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Latin, Hebrew, and Haitian-Creole), and Basic Skills in the Home Language. In terms of dual language programs, extensive districtwide initiatives exist that ensure all children, not only LEP students, are exposed to two languages (English and another language). The goal is for students to become biliterate and bilingual. Coral Way Elementary School is one example of many that offers schoolwide, extended language programs (60% instruction in English and 40% in another language). The Division of Bilingual/Foreign Language Education oversees these programs and is central to bilingual efforts within the district. The purpose of the Division is to: encompass those programs whose ultimate goal is to produce students who can communicate orally and in writing in English and in another language with proficiency commensurate with their experiential and educational level, age, and interests and who can interact effectively with groups using those languages. Miami Dade Schools District Private Schools Highschools Charter Schools Miami Dade Private High Schools
	Helen Keller		The highest result of education is tolerance.
	Mark Twain		The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
	Alexander Pope		Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
	Samuel Johnson		Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
	Albert Einstein		I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
	Jonathan Swift		When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
	Isaac Asimov		The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'
	Malcolm S. Forbes		Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
	William Butler Yeats		Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
	Thomas Edison		Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
	Helen Hayes		From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.
	Robert E. Lee		The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
	Lyndon B. Johnson		At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is education.