Organization Negotiations

Miami School District Negotiation Paper

Team B

University of Phoenix

Organization Negotiations

MGT 445

Milton C. West, Ed. D.

October 4, 2010

Miami School District Negotiation Paper

Numerous school districts in America are redrawing school boundaries because of unexpected increases in enrollment. The United States fourth largest district is the Miami Dade School District in Florida (Jorgensen & Hoffmann, 2003). The school district in has announced in the upcoming year about the school boundaries changing. The Miami Dade School District handles numerous of students and is increasing yearly. Because of the unexpected increases in enrollment, the school is not large enough to accommodate every student. In this paper, team B will discuss the demographic and give a develop plan speak toward all stakeholders concern as well as negotiating strategy to support the school boards need for redrawing the boundaries.

On June 14, 2001, the United States Senate took a vote and passed the No child left behind Act. Later, the former president of the United States George W. Bush signed the law into effect on January 8, 2002, called No child left behind Act of 2001 (Absolute, 2009). This law is for every school district within the United States to provide resources to teach each child to read, write, and learn mathematic. Alberto Carvalho is the Miami Dade superintendent who began to make each school in the district responsible for teaching each student regardless of background, income, and ethnicity. In 1885, the Miami Dade School District began as the public school system in Miami Florida. Florida is the second largest minority public school system in the country. The Miami Dade School district have more than 379,000 thousand student to include more than 239,000 teachers (Absolute, 2009).

The students recent statistic effective September 21, 2010 for the Miami Dade School Districts are 62% Hispanic origin, 26% African American, 9%...